Every diet trains the body to slow down, losing some lean tissue and not replacing all of it. This is because as soon as you return to normal eating after dieting, the body's need to regenerate causes cravings and extreme hunger. Once the glycogen and water have been replaced, the body of a sedentary person, being used to fat, will tend to regain fat. As a result, the proportion of fatty tissue increases. Therefore, cumulatively, the composition of the body drastically alters.
Since fat is less dense, therefore lighter, the sedentary person who regains lost weight will be fatter because of replacing heavier muscle with lighter fat. Fat contains air and muscle contains water. An easy way to determine whether you are increasing or decreasing your percentage of body fat is to lie on your back in a pool with your arms outstretched. The more of your body that sinks, the higher your percentage of lean tissue.
So, to effectively lose weight and keep it off you need to follow a personally-appropriate weight management program that provides a well-balanced food intake because your body will continually crave food until it gets what it needs to function effectively. You need to eat at least three times per day because your body requires fuel every 4 -6 hours while you are awake. If you eat only one or two meals per day, your body will hoard whatever you give it and not burn it up as fuel for functioning. The habit needs to be continued after weight is lost if fat is to stay off. If it isn't, your body will immediately begin to rebuild and most likely it will rebuild fat.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
For more information about video classes and individual sessions, please visit: http://EmpoweredDieter.org
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
The Importance of Regular Eating, Part 3
The normal response to restricted food intake is a decrease in resting metabolic rate. Dieting slows you down because dieting slows down the process of the active vital organs.
Overeating will not make you thin, but it will speed up the rate at which your body uses energy. After overeating, your metabolic rate when asleep and at rest speeds up and so does the energy used as a direct result of eating.
Because body fat is metabolically less active than fat-free tissue (muscle and vital organs), the greater the proportion of fat-free tissue, the more the energy requirement. The greater the proportion of fat in the body, the less energy required. And, from adulthood onward, energy requirements decline about 4% per decade. The more you weigh and the more lean body tissue you have, the higher your metabolic rate will tend to always be.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
For more information about video classes and individual sessions, please visit: http://EmpoweredDieter.org
Overeating will not make you thin, but it will speed up the rate at which your body uses energy. After overeating, your metabolic rate when asleep and at rest speeds up and so does the energy used as a direct result of eating.
Because body fat is metabolically less active than fat-free tissue (muscle and vital organs), the greater the proportion of fat-free tissue, the more the energy requirement. The greater the proportion of fat in the body, the less energy required. And, from adulthood onward, energy requirements decline about 4% per decade. The more you weigh and the more lean body tissue you have, the higher your metabolic rate will tend to always be.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
For more information about video classes and individual sessions, please visit: http://EmpoweredDieter.org
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