Why Low Calorie Diets Will Make You Fatter Than You Ever Were Before ... The Shocking Truth The Diet Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know! By Joanne Milsom, creator of The 28 Day Fat Buster Bootcamp www.fatbusterbootcamp.co.uk Every year in America alone, over $40,000,000,000 is spent on dieting. At any time, at least one quarter of grown women AND men are on a diet, with some surveys putting this at over 50%. Diet and Weight Loss is BIG Business. A lot of people are making a lot of money! Surprised? Would you be surprised if I told you that the MOST COMMON method of dieting put forward by these companies DOES NOT WORK? Would you be shocked if I told you that THEY KNOW it doesn’t work? What if I told you it doesn’t work, they know it doesn’t work AND they happily continue to promote it? Why? THEY MAKE MORE MONEY FROM YOUR FAILURE THAN YOUR SUCCESS. That’s right. If you successfully lose weight, they get no more of your money. If you fail, you’ll continue to spend. Whether you’re in a famous diet club, following a named diet method or are on a restricted food group system... there’s one thing these diets all have in common, even though they may have disguised it with colours, points, stars, good food/bad food lists... THE LOW CALORIE DIET – EXPOSED! The health and fitness industry has known for a long time that very low calorie diets are BAD for you. Most fitness professionals actually like to call low calorie diets the ‘get fat and stay fat’ plan! So you can imagine my surprise and horror to discover that rather than ditch these methods of weight loss in favour of encouraging better nutrition and food knowledge, the money-hungry diet industry has simply re-branded them as ‘VLCDs’ as if to give them a feeling of scientific, even medical significance. It doesn’t matter what acronym you use, dear money-machines. It’s still a low calorie diet and it’s still bad for you. And even worse, it won’t work for the dieter in the long term AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU CONTINUE TO PROMOTE IT! After all, how much money can you squeeze from someone who’s actually lost weight and is able to keep it off? Not a lot! But there’s real money to be made in sucking desperate people into radical weight loss programmes to get weight loss they can’t sustain, weight loss that you know and rely on being impossible to maintain! In fact studies show they’ll lose less than they regain and yet you continue to market the same old cr*p.... Anyone would think diet companies wanted you to: Spend a lot of money on their product Refer your friends because you lost so much weight in a week Achieve a weight loss you can’t maintain Put back on more weight that you lost Return to the product because it ‘worked before’ Have to spend more money this time because you have even more weight to lose Stay stuck in a cycle of just paying money to diet firms and not ever achieving what YOU want. If I weren’t such I nice person, I’d say that’s a pretty good business plan..... FOR THEM! How VLCDs Destroy Your Ability To Maintain Your Weight Loss. • You start to take in much less calories than you need to, and you lose a few pounds. This is mostly because there’s less food inside of you when you weight yourself. • Your body believes you are starting to starve and reacts quickly to prevent what it believes could be your death. • Rather than burn off your fat stores, it hangs onto these for dear life as these are where it stores excess energy for times of starvation (yes, that’s the point of fat!). • It starts to add to you fat stores whenever there’s a chance i.e. whenever you eat, so you actually start to get fatter. • You appear to be losing weight though.... your body is prioritising what it can afford to run and what it can’t afford on these exceedingly low fuel levels. So it decides to get rid of lean tissue as this is an active tissue that burns fuel to exist (fat doesn’t, fat costs your body nothing) to reduce it’s overall output, making the incoming fuel go further. It’s also able to gain a little fuel from the breaking down of these tissues. • So you’ve gained fat and lost weight from your lean tissue – leaving you as a smaller but fatter, less energetic and vital version of your old self. What happens next? So you’ve got to your target weight (or you just couldn’t sustain the punishment any longer) and you’re off your diet. Let’s look at the facts. Your body is looking to store everything it can because it thinks you’ve been starving (which you have!) – so it’s primed to store as much fat as it can from every spare calorie it can get. You’re going to have a lot of spare calories! Over the course of your diet, your body will have matched it’s output to the input you were giving it. In addition to this, you’ve lost most of your active tissue – the parts of you that boost your metabolism, leaving you with a slow, sluggish and low consumption engine. Ex-VLCD Dieters gain lb of fat every 3 days! So you resume normal eating patterns (best case) or you start to eat everything in sight (worst case) because you’re hungry – you’ve been starving right? You will not burn off the calories you are eating. Say for example you’ve been eating 1000cals a day (most VLCDs are actually closer to 1/2 of this!) and you change back to a normal intake of 2,000 cals a day. That’s an extra 1000 calories your body is going to store right away! And if one pound of fat contains 3,500 calories.... EVERY 3 DAYS you will gain 1lb of pure fat on your body. So in a month, even if you eat well and do not have one single splurge or meal out or sweet treat, you’ll pack on 10lbs of pure fat. That’s 10lbs of fat onto a body that’s already got more fat than when you started the diet. Did I mention that 1lb of fat is 5 times the size of 1lb of lean tissue, the wonderful calorie burning tissue that you’ve got almost NONE of now? So the 10lbs you gain is actually 5 times bigger in size than the 10lbs you lost! And it wobbles too! You’re enjoying eating again right now though, so you push it to the back of your mind. All those hopes you had, the smaller jeans you bought to fit in to, the holiday in the bikini.... hide them under the carpet for a bit. You like yourself fat right? That’s who you are, isn’t it? Then one day soon, you think, I really need to lose weight. I’ll do it this time. This time I’m serious. This is the last time. How to do it? Well, I lost loads of weight on that diet I did last time.... .... and so the cycle repeats itself. If you really want to lose weight and keep it off for good, YOU MUST: Eat REAL FOOD. Eat enough food that you body does not believe it is starving and therefore is happy to give up it’s fat stores. Eat foods that kick up your metabolism, turning your body into a fat burning furnace. Do activities that help to protect your lean tissue, tissue than burns calories EVEN while you sleep! Follow a diet that cures you of cravings, clears away your sweet tooth and actually gives you knowledge and encourages you to learn about your food, making it easy to keep the weight off for good. I hope this report has been useful. Everything I’ve written can be easily discovered on the internet – the information is out there, education and knowledge about your diet and your health are SO important. And it’s not rocket science – we’re not talking brain surgery here! I encourage you to read, learn, test, research and put the power back in your own hands, rather than those who would seek to benefit from the ignorance of others. That’s pretty serious stuff for me, but I’m passionate about this stuff (perhaps you can tell!). All the best for now, and I wish you every success you dream of! Joanne Milsom www.fatbusterbootcamp.co.uk
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