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The $84,000 Dollar Question

You’ve probably experienced fat loss before when you’ve either gone on a diet or started a new fitness program, right?

And you may have even experienced great results in the first 2-4 weeks. Like, 3-10 pounds of fat loss… or something like that.

Heck, maybe your fat loss exceeded that time line, and you lost fat on a weekly basis for 2 months or so, but you weren’t quite satisfied, and wanted to lose a little bit more fat..

And then….

IT STOPPED DEAD IN ITS TRACKS.

If you’ve experienced that, I feel your pain, I really do.. I get email questions on a weekly basis about this problem.

And the answer lies in the ‘Ole “Eat Less, Exercise More, & You’ll Lose A Bunch of Fat” myth…

And why it’s DEAD FRIGGIN’ Wrong…

Okay, If you’re not sitting down, go ahead and take a seat… if your office door is open, close it…. Because what I’m about to tell you is NOT what you hear everyday. And, quite frankly, is counterintuitive (meaning, you might look at me and think “you’re a fuggin nut-job, Todd, wtf.)

But honestly, if someone would have told me this years ago, I could have gotten rid of my beer belly A LONG time ago…

WHY FAT LOSS STOPS AND HOW TO TELL YOUR BODY TO KEEP LOSING FAT

When we go on “calorie restrictive diets” (calorie restrictive diet in this context is consuming fewer calories per day than your body requires to maintain its weight) we burn fat (and other stuff too, like glucose & muscle tissue in extreme cases.) And when we couple that with a moderately intense workout program, the calorie deficit increases even more.

So let’s look at an exercise example to illustrate this.

Let’s say we need 2000 calories per day to maintain our current weight, but we decide we want to lose weight. So we restrict our calories to 1750 per day and that puts us at a 250 calorie deficit per day. Since we want to lose a pound of fat per week, we also add a daily exercise routine that puts us at an additional 250 calorie deficit. So the total calorie deficit per day is 500 calories per day, right?

Alright, so we’re in a 500 calorie per day deficit, and in the beginning, our body responds by shedding pounds in the way of fat (in most cases). Not 100% will be fat, your body will also shed water weight. So initially, the scale may dramatically decrease, then level off after a few weeks.

It’s after these few weeks pass that you get to a crucial point that needs adjusting.

Since you’re in a calorie deficit and also exercising, your body responds initially in 2 ways:

1) It sheds pounds in the form of fat, water, glycogen

2) Muscles become stronger, more dense, and grow in size (which means there’s a “counter weight” to the fat loss in respect to looking at your weight on the scale)

Because your body is responding to your nutrition and exercise program by increasing your muscle size & density… Your maintenance calorie requirements (remember, this is the number of calories you need per day to maintain your current weight) automatically increases by the sheer fact that you now have slightly higher lean muscle mass.

Without going into a scientific dissertation, an interesting fact to note is that muscle is where fat is burned. The more you have, the more fat you burn.

And this is where it can get a little tricky for us. If more muscle means more fat loss, then in this scenario, we should be good to go, right, because we just added some muscle to burn more fat?

On the surface, this is completely logical..

But WRONG (almost).

It’s right because it does mean you’re able to burn MORE calories and fat now that you have more muscle, but It’s WRONG in the fact that if there aren’t tiny adjustments made to account for the additional calories we’re now burning, we’ll fall into what I call “The Hamster Wheel Effect.”

Since studies show severely calorie restrictive diets cause our body to hold on to fat stores and tap into protein & muscle tissue (since that’s where the nutrients are stored), without adjusting your calories to take into account for the INCREASED metabolic rate…

Fat Loss SLOWS..

…because your body will stop burning fat as fuel and tap into muscle tissue – the very same muscle tissue that’s allowing you to burn more calories.

So, now instead of burning fat around the clock, we sort of turn into hamsters on a spinwheel. We continue the regular calorie deficit at the OLD calculations, continue to exercise and build fat burning muscle, and our body continues to break down that same muscle to use for fuel INSTEAD OF USING AND BURNING FAT…

Do you see what I mean?

It can become a never-ending-cycle.

But here’s the Good News…

YOU CAN BREAK THROUGH THAT CYCLE IF YOU CATCH IT AT THE RIGHT TIME

Remember how fat loss stops because you’re now burning more calories, like, automatically just because you increase your lean mass? Well, All you have to do to beat this sucker is recalculate and ADD calories to your new daily intake.

Counter intuitive to what you’re normally used to hearing, I know.

But to account for the lean muscle mass increase, these additional calories will prevent your body from breaking down muscle tissue to use as fuel and convince it that YOU’RE OKAY and that it’s cool to keep burning FAT as fuel, because you’re gonna keep feeding it.

So, if you’re in a rut, or have gotten in a rut in the past and just gave up..

NOW IS THE TIME…

Jump back on the wagon, and this time, instead of getting frustrated because your fat loss has stopped between weeks 4-8, increase your calories slightly to take into account for your new fat burning machine…

AND YOU’LL KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

I Promise… but don’t take my word for it, give it a shot… what have you got to lose?

Talk soon,

Todd

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Alright, so someone I know really well (I can’t give out her name) has been doing weight watchers ™ for the past 3 weeks.

Okay, if you’ve read much of what I say and/or know a little about weight watchers ™, You might be able to guess what I’m about to tell you next.

Last night was her week 3 progress report/weigh in.

Week 1: 4.4 pounds lost

Week 2: 4.6 pounds lost

Week 3: 0.6 pounds lost

4 pounds per week for 2 weeks and then BLAM-O.. nothing, nada, zilch! Well, okay, 0.6 pounds. Big WHOOP.

So, if you know anything about weight watchers, then you know that they follow a points system. Meaning you can eat whatever you want as long as you don’t go over the number of points you’re allotted per day, okay?

Aight, here’s what happened after the week 2 weigh in.

She lost like 9 pounds, right, so based on her new weight her daily points were decreased by 2. Not a lot.

I’m not hatin’ on weight watchers, but this is a classic case of why diets fail miserably and why they can’t be sustained long term.

So, what happens if she keeps losing more and more weight? Does that mean that eventually she won’t be able to eat anything at all? I mean, she lost 9 pounds and  she’s being punished by having food taken away from her..

Bullshit if you ask me.

So here’s why it matters to you

The first person that can correctly tell me WHY she stopped losing weight (or why it went from avging 4 lbs per week to 0.6 lbs per week) will win a FREE 15 minute phone consultation with me to help you get on target.

Here’s what you need to do:

Scroll down to the comments section below and leave a comment. Tell me WHY you think she only lost 0.6 pounds last week when nothing changed in her activity levels and her daily food consumption was cut by roughly 50-100 calories per day.

And if you want to AVOID hitting a wall in your fat loss after just 3 weeks (unlike my friend), then you need to go here (no ifs, ands, or butts about it).

http://HowtoGetSixPackAbs.com

I guarantee you won’t stop losing Fat until you’re READY to stop losing Fat if you follow the step-by-step system as it’s laid out.

Aight, I’m out until next time.. and don’t forget to leave your comment and win a free consultation.

Todd

http://HowtoGetSixPackAbs.com

Training Advisor, Men’s Fitness magazine

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’til next time, Train Hard & Live Easy!

Todd Scott
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