Move More, Eat More and Weigh Less
Originally published July 23, 2006
What's the first thing many people do when they want to get rid of the love handles or saddle bags – eat less. I've seen and heard everything: egg whites only for breakfast, not eating until 2:00 pm, eating every other day or eating vegetables all day long. Get your pens out! The information you are about to read will change your waste band, energy levels, self-esteem and your life. Eat more to weigh less.
Everything you have ever read says weight loss is simple – cut calories by eating less and/or burn more calories by exercising more to lose weight. That will work for a while. Remember, your body is smart and very adaptable. Within a few weeks or months, your metabolism will slow down and you'll feel tired, hungry and low on energy. Relentless food craving sand nighttime nibbling will see that those missing calories are made up, usually in the form of junk food or empty calories. Cravings are caused by chronic underfeeding 90% of the time. You will start gaining weight in the form of fat. Being drained, underfed or poorly nourished will also mean you won't have energy to keep up that well-intentioned new exercise program.
The solution? Move more and eat more. Eat anything and everything? Of course not. Frequently fuel your body with the highest quality food out there - the good things that the earth has supplied for our health for generations – vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices, nuts and seeds, animal meats, fats and milks, eggs, whole grains, beans and lentils and water. Consume a variety of those foods every two to three hours throughout the day. Eat more in the morning and make each meal afterwards a little smaller. Go back to your roots of working with your bodies rather than relying on machines – this is our non-exercise activity. Do more formal exercise activity also designed to strengthen, stretch and condition muscles, tendons, ligaments, heart and lungs.
By increasing good quality calories and both formal and informal activity, you will see the fat start to disappear, the muscles start to tone and grow and you will feel better than you ever have before. Decreasing calories to ridiculous, dangerous levels will only make you lethargic and fatter in the long run.
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