Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Crash diets crash the metabolism

Most diet programs claiming to help you quickly drop excess weight, only end up making it harder for you in the long run because they use harsh metabolism-decreasing diets. Furthermore they rarely advise enough exercise and almost never any weight training.

The result of following starvation diets or dropping weight too rapidly in is metabolic damage; in other words your metabolism slows right down. This makes it very difficult, after the initial impact of the crash diet, to achieve any further fat loss at all.

The bottom line is: you can’t starve the fat off with crash diets.

The good news is, any damage to the metabolism can be repaired. You just need the right combination of metabolism stimulating exercise and metabolism stimulating nutrition.

Applied consistently over time anyone can increase their metabolism.

It may take a bit longer if you've lost a lot of lean body mass from severe starvation dieting in the past, but it is not hopeless.

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