If you reduce your food intake to lose weight and body fat, you make a mistake. To lose weight you have to eat, though less than your body needs, but your body may not get used to the reduced calorie intake. If you daily eat less than your body needs, your metabolism slows down. If you again reduce your calorie intake, the metabolism slows down further. This means, you are hungry without losing weight. Well, during the first few days you lose weight some weight and you are in the wrong believe that this is the way to lose all your excess weight, but soon the weight loss is diminishing, until it comes to a stop.
Quite certainly you have experienced this and you have wondered why do not keep losing weight. The body got used that it is getting less food and it slows down the metabolic system. And it gets worse than that. The body will store as much fat as it can, because it does not know when the next time of starvation will be and it has to prepare for it, because your body is thinking for you and does everything to keep you alive, even in difficult times.
It does not matter when you eat less. In case you tried to stop eating after lunch and had no dinner for several days, will give you the same result. The body is getting used to get no dinner and will store fat – each day a little more, as it has to prepare for these hours of famine.
If you one day eat more as during your weight loss plan, you will gain weight, because the metabolic system is not able to digest all this as it is not used to it and besides, the body needs to store fat for a next time of starvation. This is why people who try one weight loss diet after the other, are getting more and more fat. This is the well known yo-yo-effect.
If you want to lose weight, it is much better if you eat every six hours, and even better, if you eat every three hours. There is one kind of weight loss diet, which is called grazing. You eat many times a day little portions. This ensures that the metabolism stays high and you digest faster. Still, even with Grazing you have to reduce your calorie intake.
How can you avoid that the metabolism slows down?
It is done with calorie variation. Varying your caloire intake is very easily done. Here is an example for a week of this weight loss plan:
Day #1: You eat very little
Day #2: You eat a little less as your body needs.
Day #3: You eat as much as your body needs.
Day #4: You eat a lot more as your body needs.
Day #5: You eat a little more as your body needs.
Day #6: You eat very little
Day #7: You eat as much as your body needs.
When you add the calorie intake of these 7 days, it should be less as the sum of the calories you need per day multiplied by seven.
With Calorie Variation you avoid to reach a weight loss plateau and you avoid the yo-yo-effect.
How to avoid hunger attacks and the desire to eat sweets
And there is more you can do to lose weight and body fat. If you are afraid of hunger attacks and get the desire to eat sweets, you only have to make sure that your body gets sufficient amount of all the essential macro and micro nutrients. If the body does not get what it needs, it makes you want to eat more and more, but it does not tell you what you should eat. You get a very wrong message and this is that you desire to eat anything that is sweet. When you eat something sweet the fat cells open to store whatever it get as fat. As you began to eat something sweet, you can’t stop. You eat more and more of it. At this point you have to know that a cookie, which does not taste sweet, is turned into simple sugars the moment it gets into you digestive channel. And you take one more cookie and another and another until the bag is empty.
You can avoid hunger attacks and this sweet tooth by eating a lot of vegetables, some fruit, enough protein rich foods, such as meat, fish, poultry, eggs and cheese, enough natural fat, such as in nuts, avocados and olives.
You get all important macro and micro nutrients in ehse foods. What too many people don’t know is that carbohydrates are mainly found in vegetables and fruit and they all have little bit of protein. Most people think of grain products such as bread, noodles, pizza and rice, when they hear the word carbohydrates.
If you want to lose weight, minimize grain products, rice and potatoes. Instead you can eat a lot of vegetables. Green salad has very little calories. You can eat lots of it. If you look at the calorie content of most of the vegetables and compare the quantity of the same amount of calories with bread, noodles or potatoes, you can eat quite a bit of vegetables to reach the amount of calories a few french fries or a pizza has.
Get to know the food you eat a little bit more. Look up how much calories it has, what kind of vitamins and minerals and compare with how much you need. You will be surprised how little essential nutrient the food, which makes you fat, has.
Start to eat more of what your body needs and you will be satisfied quicker and stop to eat too much of what your body does not need.
