How to Lose Weight, How Not to Lose Weight

Modern weight loss information is oversimplified and does a great injustice to the overweight in search of improving their overall health and losing excess body fat. In fact, because lean body tissues are lost, the typical diet results in a lowered metabolism, increased appetite, decreased fat burning, and increased fat storage. Oops. Actually, dieting could be a significant contributor to the development of obesity.

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• Matt Stone

[nebulareclipse]

I'm soooo lost right now

[julioenriquej]

i have heard about a "pyramid" approach to this principles that some personal trainers use, it consists of gradually raising calories until the person reaches about 1000 calories above maintenance calories (around 3500 calories for a 200 pound person) from clean whole sources of food and then gradually decreasing them to about 500 calories below maintenance; as long as 1 g of protein per pound of body weight is consumed daily, this diet includes raising calories for 2 days every 5 days.

[ginavoce25]

Fan-frickin'-tastic! Makes so much sense. I wonder what the people in the study did to keep a positive nitrogen balance. L-glutamine can do that also.

[belovedideas]

Woo hooo!! Nice one, Matt! You had it right when you pronounced it with the Italian accent...lol. It's Sar-Jays. Ok, so I'm getting that it's not the calories so much as the metabolism. Leptin and insulin problems have to be fixed. But will every person require a different approach? I"m going to your blog to see how that conversation is going :-)