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Weight Loss Tips For Special Occasions
By Gary Matthews
If you are like me, you have probably been through all
this before, the family wedding is coming up next month
and you can’t seem to fit into that suit or dress
because you have put on too much weight. So you must lose
at least ten or more pounds quickly.
Losing weight quickly is not advisable as most of the loss
will be muscle tissue and water; you put on the weight slowly
(usually over years) so normally you should take it off
slowly and then you will know that the majority of the loss
will be body fat.
But you have a problem here and the clock is ticking so
you will have to diet pretty hard to meet your target weight
loss. Let’s look at that first, you all know that
diets don’t work; they send the body into starvation
mode, a survival mechanism from long age when humans faced
periods of famine.
Going too low in calories causes the body to lower its
metabolic rate, which reduces its ability to burn fat. At
the same time, hunger signals increase and you quickly start
to crave high-energy foods loaded with fats and sugar, the
same foods you are trying to do without.
Research shows repeated dieting actually makes it harder
to lose weight and easier to put it on because when you
dump the diet and return to normal eating habits the drop
in metabolic rate caused by the diet means that your old
habits actually represent an excess in calories. Not only
do you regain the fat stores just lost, but also you may
even gain an extra bit.
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