How We Lose Weight |
The weight loss program should also help you keep the weight off by making changes in your physical activity and eating habits that you will be able to follow for the rest of your life. Simply eating fewer calories than are needed for minimal energy requirements can produce weight loss. However, the loss is likely to include muscle tissue and water weight as well as fat. The weight loss provides the deceptive appearance of a successful weight control program. When deprived of calories, the body first burns glycogen (which removes the water stored with the glycogen) and then burns fatty acids and amino acids. The amino acids come primarily from protein that would normally be used for muscle tissue repair, which eventually results in the loss of muscle tissue. When significantly deprived of enough calories to supply minimal energy requirements, the body goes into a starvation mode as a defense mechanism. "Total Control can assist your Weight Loss Efforts" In the starvation mode, the body strives to convert more calories to fat than usual. Of course this increases the ratio of fat to muscle. At the same time, the metabolism slows down to conserve energy (and fat) as well. The diet worsens the situation that originally caused the fat to accumulate. There is less muscle to burn fat, and the body works even harder to convert calories to fat. When a normal diet is resumed, it is very likely that weight gain will occur, even faster than before. Therefore it is important to eat three meals a day and even a small mid-morning and mid- afternoon snack if there are long time periods between meals. Not quantity, but quality foods. |
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Your body weight is controlled by the number of calories you eat and the number of calories you use each day. So, to lose weight you need to take in fewer calories than you use. You can do this by becoming more physically active or by eating less. Following a weight loss program that helps you to become more physically active and decrease the amount of calories that you eat is most likely to lead to successful weight loss.