Why Diets Fail
Think back about a time in which our ancestors, like cavemen, roamed the earth. You know, the hunter and gather, feast and famine type days where capturing or growing food was difficult.
For those tribes of people, in order to survive, they had to go without nourishment sometimes for long periods of time. Sometimes they existed lacking food for several days at a time. And during certain seasons, namely the winter months, their bodies were forced to exist on small quantities daily food and calories for 2-3 months.
What’s the reason they didn’t die? There’s only one… The body adapts and kicks-in natural defense against starvation.
When you don’t get sufficient food for an long period of time, your system simply creates ”starvation-alert” hormones, fat storage enzymes, and hunger pangs, that all increase… While the chemical processes that accelerate metabolism, and cause fat burning all take a dive.
This causes your body to begin a “starvation alert mode”. Advantageous to our ancestors; unfortunately, not beneficial to the dieter.
You see, dieting is nothing more than a form of planned starvation. Go on a low calorie diet and it won’t be long until your system begins fighting for every ounce of your body fat. You want to lose it; it wants to keep it. And guess what? It wins every time.
It takes your body about seven days of calorie restriction to begin to trigger “starvation mode” and perpetuate the negative adaptations I mentioned previously (decreased metabolism, slowed/stalled fat loss, etc).
On the other hand, it takes a much shorter period of time to reverse these trends via strategic practices of “overfeeding” or dietary “cheating”.
Essentially, by adding periods of strategic cheating like you will learn in “Cheat Your Way Thin”, you can literally turn your metabolism into your fat burning slave by ensuring you always have an internal environment primed for burning fat-and you do it with your favorite foods.
But what if there was some way to “trick” your body into thinking you aren’t dieting when you actually are?
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