| I have read about many theories on weight | | | | 2000 used, but that is beside the point. The |
| loss, exercise and diet, and understand the | | | | message is that Atkins will not work if you |
| theories of the Atkin's Diet, grapefruit | | | | eat more calories than you use. The theory is |
| diets and calorie controlled diets. I have | | | | that a low carbohydrate diet increases your |
| read about them all. But which of them | | | | metabolic rate. So equal calories taken by |
| actually work? That is the 64,000 dollar | | | | Atkins and a high carb diet, means that |
| question with a very simple answer. | | | | Atkins loses more weight due to a higher |
| | | | metabolism. Atkins fails when too much fat is |
| All or none! You can eat chocolate cake if | | | | eaten and not enough exercise is taken |
| you work it off next day! Whatever diet you | | | | because the subject relies on the diet and |
| use, there is one very simple equation that | | | | fails to exercise. That is a recipe for |
| is ruled by science; by the biochemistry of | | | | disaster with any diet, Atkins or not. |
| our bodies. If energy in is greater than | | | | |
| energy out, you have an excess of energy. If | | | | It is unbelievable how many people, some |
| energy in is less than energy out, you have a | | | | claiming to be expert dieticians, refuse to |
| deficit of energy. In common parlance, you | | | | accept the concept of calories. Calories are |
| can equate energy in with calories eaten and | | | | fact, not a concept, and are popularly used |
| energy out with calories used up. An excess | | | | as a measure of energy intake. It doesn't |
| of energy is stored either as fat or as | | | | really matter whether you use calories or any |
| glycogen in the liver, and a deficit of | | | | other units, anybody that does not accept |
| energy equates with weight loss. | | | | their relevance in diet are nuts. |
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| This equation is a law of physics, as Scottie | | | | To repeat, and to put it in a nutshell, |
| of Star Trek would say, or a law of | | | | energy absorbed must be less than energy |
| biochemistry. It cannot be broken, no matter | | | | expended if you are to lose weight. The best |
| what diet you are on. Some foods can increase | | | | way to lose energy is exercise. The more |
| the metabolic rate, which is the energy used | | | | exercise you do, the more weight you lose, as |
| by the body when at rest, such as for | | | | long as you eat less energy that you are |
| breathing, blood circulation, thinking and | | | | using. Where you lose the weight depends on |
| the 1001 other things that the body does, | | | | what parts of the body are being exercised. |
| even while you are asleep. If you wake up in | | | | If you have fat thighs, you won't lose thigh |
| the night feeling very hot and sweating, that | | | | fat if you exercise your arms. You will end |
| is your body burning excess calories. A high | | | | up with skinny arms and thunder thighs. |
| metabolic rate is why some people seem to be | | | | |
| able to eat everything without putting on a | | | | If you carry out a structured exercise |
| pound. | | | | campaign designed to trim your whole body |
| | | | that is combined with a good diet regime, |
| Most fat is stored under the skin, and that | | | | then weight loss, exercise and diet will work |
| is the fat is normally lost first when you | | | | for you as science dictates that it must. |
| exercise. However, other fat can be stored | | | | Science is fact, not opinion. |
| round the abdomen and major organs such as | | | | |
| the heart and liver. That fat is the most | | | | Exercise and diet can work together. Learn |
| dangerous. It is difficult to shift, and can | | | | how to combine them in a productive way and |
| place great strain on the major organs. That | | | | you will lose weight a lot easier than you |
| is why abdominal fat is considered to | | | | could have believed. No more diet fads. You |
| medically undesirable, and is considered to | | | | can eat anything you want, in any amount you |
| have a greater effect on your health than fat | | | | want, as long as you exercise to work off |
| elsewhere in your body. | | | | what you eat. A tub of ice cream is fine if |
| | | | you are prepared to do an hour on the |
| The only way to lose weight is not to try a | | | | treadmill next day. So don't think that |
| fad diet, but to take in fewer calories than | | | | losing weight means the end of the chocolate |
| you use up. It is simple math. 1000 calories | | | | cake - it needn't. It is all a matter of |
| in, 1001 calories used, then you lose weight. | | | | balance. |
| Simple. Better to have 1000 calories in and | | | | |