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The Low Carb Craze and Other Dieting Mistakes

By: Bill Belfert

Dear BMTers,
Low carb this and low carb that卼hat抯 all you hear nowadays. Kinda reminds me of something that was the craze a few years ago匱he Low or No Fat Craze匔an you remember where that got us? Still Fat!!!

Well my friends this Low Carb Craze is going to bring us to the same exact place匶ep匰till Fat!

Listen, anyone who tries Low carb dieting will experience some Short Term success卋ut it抯 only short term.
I know some of you are tired of hearing me repeat myself but any diet or exercise machine in and of itself will not work!

A successful Fitness Program must incorporate 5 Strategies:
1. A Compelling Reason to Change

2. Proper Nutrition

3. Progressive Resistance Training

4. Moderate Aerobic Exercise

5. Consistency

If you抮e missing any one of these strategies you will not experience the success that you crave.

Why the Low Carb diets without Progressive Resistance Training will not work in the long run.

We need to build lean muscle on our bodies.

Why do we need to build lean muscle on our bodies? Building lean muscle will boost metabolism and that is what we want to achieve.

You抣l even start burning more calories even while you rest.

Right now I抦 going to let you in on one of the biggest secrets on burning fat ever revealed:

Lean Muscle Burns Fat!

And, the more lean muscle you have, the more fat you will burn. That is a statement that you can take to the bank!

I guarantee it!

Listen, all these people that go on these Fad diets are really losing water and lean muscle weight.
They Are Not Losing Any Fat Whatsoever!

How can they be if I just got finished telling you that in order for us to lose any fat,(and I did mean any fat!) you must have lean muscle tissue for the fat to go be burned up in?

Our bodies are smart; our fat just can抰 go away it must be burned up in a muscle cell.

And if you抮e not doing any Progressive Weight Resistance Training, well then, you抮e not building any new lean muscle tissue.
Which means, you guessed it厃ou won抰 be burning fat any time soon!!!

Don抰 you see? The people that go on these Fad (starvation) diets turn into 搒kinny fat?people. Sure they lose weight, but they lose the wrong kind of weight.

Since these people usually don抰 perform any weight resistance training and are only probably taking diet pills, and doing hours of aerobic exercise,

they are losing water (from the low calorie, low carb diet) and lean muscle (from doing to much aerobic exercise and not having the right amount and the proper ratios of food in their bodies).

So what is left?

FAT!!!

They have no muscle tone whatsoever!
What these people should be doing is learning how to lift weights and get stronger progressively!

The only way to do that is?

Get A Little Stronger Each And Every Workout

If you抮e not getting stronger each and every workout than you are doing something wrong!

Then all you have to do is add:

A Compelling Reason to Change, Proper Nutrition, Moderate Aerobic Exercise, and Consistency to be Successful

A great example of dieting the wrong way in my opinion is Anna Nicole Smith抯 recent 搘eight loss?

From a distance she looks great! But get closer and clear the smoke and you will find that she transformed herself into what I explained before a 搒kinny fat person?

Did you hear her interviewed lately on shows like Larry King Live and Regis and Kelly?

She says she takes Trim Spa抯 Ephedra Free Diet Pills. And she eats like only once per day if she抯 lucky. And I would bet my life, kids, wife, and the house that she never ever does a workout with weights on a consistent basis!!!

So let抯 see what happened?
Most people think that to lose excess body fat, they must stop eating altogether. This is where they are totally wrong.

Starvation?what else would you call not eating?) triggers a metabolic response where, your metabolism will actually slow down and become more efficient in order to preserve body tissue in the case of a shortage of future nutrition.

This is precisely what we don抰 want. Another way people think they抮e 揺ating right?is having fruit & coffee for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and a bowl of pasta for dinner.

?Nope, that抯 not the answer either. Some people don抰 eat anything the whole day and 搒ave themselves?for a big huge dinner! That抯 not the answer either.

To find the answer, you have to think back to caveman days. Back then, there were no supermarkets or convenience stores to easily get whatever you want and whenever you want it.

The caveman didn抰 know when his next meal was coming. He only ate when he made the big kill and would literally gorge and overstuff himself until he couldn抰 move! Why? Because he knew that he might not eat again for days or even worse厀eeks.

What this did was make our bodies very bad at processing our food. Since our bodies didn抰 know when we were going to eat next, they were forced to revert into something known as?

揝urvival Mode?

Whenever you eat, your digestive system converts most of your food?especially large amounts of carbohydrates) to glucose (blood sugar). It抯 a very complicated process but I抣l do my best to sum it up in a nutshell?

Anytime we eat while were in 搒urvival mode,?because of the molasses-pace the metabolism is at, the body converts most of the glucose卛n conjunction with the hormone insulin卼o fat.

This is why people who constantly starve themselves can gain weight while eating only once a day!

We抎 like to speed up our metabolism, but unfortunately over thousands and thousands of years our bodies haven抰 changed much from the days of the cave man.

Every time we eat, our bodies are already automatically going to convert it to fat卐ven if it抯 fat free! Where抯 the justice???

So how do we change our body from fat storer to fat burner? We have to learn to use proper nutrition.

So the question is厀hat is proper nutrition? OK?in a nutshell, my idea of proper nutrition is 4 to 5 portion-controlled, balanced meals about every 3 hours throughout the day.

By eating this way throughout the day, you抣l effortlessly speed up your metabolism.

Think of it this way. If you have a campfire burning and you don抰 add wood to the fire, eventually the campfire will burn out.

But if you add a little wood every few hours, the campfire will continue to burn, and burn nice and hot! So you see, the human metabolism is like the fire卬ever or rarely feed it, and it will slow down.

Feed it every few hours and it has no choice but to speed up.

What Is A Portion-Controlled Meal You Ask?

A portion-controlled meal is sensible portion of a lean protein, a sensible portion of a starchy carbohydrate, and a sensible portion of a fibrous carbohydrate.

Lean protein foods:
- Skinless chicken breast
- Skinless turkey breast
- Tuna fish
- Most fish in general
- Egg whites
- Protein powder

Starchy carbohydrates:
- Sweet potato
- Potato
- Rice
- Pasta
- Oatmeal
- Whole grain wheat bread

Fibrous Carbohydrates:
- Corn
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Asparagus
- Peppers

Here are a few examples of a portion-controlled meal:

Chicken breast with corn & rice
Lean steak with potato & broccoli
Fish with rice & salad
Chicken pita sandwich
Egg white omelet with mushrooms & oatmeal or farina

A "typical" day of eating on Bare Minimum Training might be :

7:00am: egg white omelet and oatmeal
10:00am: yogurt with cottage cheese
1:00 pm: tuna pita sandwich
4:00 pm: mushroom turkey burger on a whole grain bun
7:00 pm: Salmon with rice
8 8-ounce glasses of spring water (throughout entire day)

So you see if Anna Nicole Smith does not start to implement Proper Nutrition and a sound fitness program like Bare Minimum Training?

She抯 setting yourself up for Failure卻ure she has short term success but eventually she抣l gain all the weight back!!!

I hope she doesn抰 gain the weight back卋ut she must change her ways if there抯 any hope for long term success.

Take care,
Bill Belfert
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