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LOW CALORIE CONFUSION EXPLAINED
How This Program Works
To reduce body fat, inevitably you need to take in fewer calories than you expend.
The timeless energy expenditure factor. The less you eat and the more you lose.
No one is saying this is the only factor - but let face it - it is a factor.
This is one essential obvious rule of thumb to burning away that layer of subcataneous
fat. It is a simple fact that if you were to consume too many calories then
your body has no need to dip into its emergency reserves of fat for energy.
Dropping your calorie intake below what your body needs on a daily basis will
result in fat loss, as there is too little energy coming in, so your body needs
to take energy from somewhere to function, and that is all your fat really is
- stored energy. A great theory of course until you find you have done this
for some time and it stops working. Your body will adapt over time, and the
only way to get a further reduction in body fat will be to reduce calories again.
Eventually, you reduce calories so much that energy levels suffer, training
quality decreases and muscle loss increases. And this is, of course, disastrous.
You end up wasting away and become primed at being the biggest fat sponge on
earth, which means as soon as calories increase - you too, increase, fatter
and fatter and fatter than before. All of the diets you read about on this web
site are aimed to counteract this effect. The method described below is one
very successful method to trick the body out of this adaptive response.
Adaptation To Environmental Stimulus
This is an adaptation process your body follows to protect its fat reserves,
to try and maintain its status quo. The natural homeostasis. However, this program
is designed to limit the body's ability to adapt to a new regular, and typically
low on a standard fat loss diet, by confusing it. Rather than reducing calories
constantly, it's based on a rotating level of calories, so that your body is
never felt in a constant state of calorie reduction. It is only when you expose
your body to a lack of calories for an extended time period that it rebels against
your efforts to shed fat, and adapts. Why does it do this and how? Well, of
course, your body wants to retain as much fat as possible, as this is the essential
emergency energy that it has for survival, if you were ever placed into a state
or environment of famine. This makes sense. And don't forget people used to
live in a world, where food was scarcer and it had to be hunted and foraged.
Man was never able to be gluttonous of greedy on hamburgers and apple pie in
the wild, and man was far more active than watching TV. So this is what your
body is primed for. Periods of feeding and indeed periods of famine. And during
famine periods, your body is primed to excel at the function of retaining fat,
and sure as hell becoming excellent and getting fatter as soon as more food
arrived, to survive the next famine period. You, as a body builder or athlete,
want to get as far from this scenario as possible. Except the 'being active'
part.
Now we know your body adapts. It can only trigger an adaptive response like
this, specifically when it is exposed to the necessary stimulus over a certain
period of time. We also know that under eating burns off excess bodyfat. Now
the cyclic principle of this diet can be incorporated into any of the other
fat loss programs to further enhance their effect.
Putting It Together
Specifically, this program takes three different calorie levels that average
out a little below maintenance level. By using a different calorie level each
day your body never gets into a position where it adapts to being under fed,
consequently you can make consistent body fat loss for longer.
What Can I Expect To See?
Well from this particular diet you will notice sustained and long term fat loss,
without any delitarious energy dips or mood swings. Your body should be primed
for regular weight loss on the scales of around 1 - 2lbs per week.
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