Weight Loss Mistakes - Over Exercising on Reduced Calories

If I was to ask you to name one of the biggest factors that influences your ability to lose weight you'd probably say you're metabolism.

Your metabolism plays such an important role in weight loss. If it's slow, then losing weight is a struggle, if it's fast, then weight loss just happens automatically and you barely have to give it any thought.

This brings us on to our 2nd big weight loss mistake...

Exercising and reducing calories

Exercise requires fuel. If you try to exercise without putting enough calories into your body then your body will react by slowing down your metabolism. 

If you continue to burn more calories than you eat then your body will believe that there must be food shortage, and it'll go into fat store mode to protect you from possible starvation. It's a survival thing... which worked really well when we were hunter gatherers but it's not so useful in the modern world, where food is plentiful and we just want to shed a few pounds fast. 

Obviously you don't want this, but it's gonna happen so you need to respect it. Give your body what it needs... correct nutrition! Give it fuel if you expect it to work hard at the gym. Just make sure that the fuel you're putting into your body is good quality!!! Junk food is NOT gym fuel! 

If you want to lose weight fast then learn about nutrition. Your body is often cravings nutrients that are lacking in todays processed world so it keeps you hungry because it's not getting the fix it needs. As a result you end up over eating too much crap because your body is trying to get a little good!

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Weight Loss Mistakes - Trying to Lose Weight FAST!

If you want to lose weight fast then you're probably doing something that is designed to trick your body into losing weight.... read on to find out why this a big no no!

Most diets are designed to trick your body into losing weight. The most common ways they do this is limit calorie intact or cut out a macro-nutrient food group (such as proteins, carbs or fat) ....YES you know the diets I'm talking about here!!!

You lose weight... then you CRASH!!!

Trying to lose weight like this will always fail.... in the mid to long term. You might lose weight in the short term... but it will not stay off. 

Diets that cash in on this technique know that the dieters is going to be singing their praises as they drop  few pounds pretty quickly... and that's gonna be enough to make all their friends want to try it too, and before you know it, we have another fad diet!

Your body doesn't like being tricked by this 'denial' diets, it will rebel. And when it does not only do you put all the weight back on, but you gain a little extra too. Your body wants to protect itself in case there is a shortage again, so it starts to store a little extra, just in case. 

The result... you get fatter!

You must have seen people that have fallen victim to these diets (maybe even in the mirror!) they only work for a very short amount of time, then you pile on the pounds and you're back where you started (or a little worse... and you have to go buy new jeans.... AGAIN!)

If you really want to lose weight, then you NEED to be HEALTHY!

Denying yourself a specific group of food is NOT healthy. We need a balance. If you want to lose weight, then you have to focus on your health and make sure you are getting the correct nutrition for your body to do what it was built to do! 

You were not meant to be fat. You're only fat because you're interfering with a system that worked great... before we started to mess with it. 

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