The hardest thing to understand when you are trying too losing weight is that eating is an important mechanism not just for gaining weight but also losing it. Kirsty Alley a perfect example that diets and food restriction don’t work, by diets I mean getting onboard with one of the plethora of quick loss programs in the market place. By restriction I am saying that skipping meals to avoid calories is a recipe for disaster.
Feast or famine
The body is an amazing organism and over the course of our evolution has adapted to feast or famine, during famine our metabolism slows conserving energy and our bodies stores of fat. The priority is that the homeostasis of the body is maintained, that maintenance assures that essential organs like the heart and brain receive adequate energy to function during famine or dieting.
A slow metabolism spells “FAT”
When you eat your body actually increases its metabolic rate to process and package the food into the right parcels for the body to utilize. Carbohydrate (CHO) is converted to glycogen and stored in the liver and a smaller proportion in skeletal muscle and then used for energy. Protein is broken down into amino’s and used to build body tissue; amino acids are the building blocks for protein, and fats an essential component of every cell in our bodies.
Hitting the plateau
Any one that has have ever been on a diet has probably hit the plateau, that plateau is the bodies intrinsic evolutionary mechanism that fights against us when we start losing to much weight and restrict calories. The way to kick start the metabolism and overcome the plateau is by increasing activity and also increasing the proportion of CHO, protein and fats.
Starving yourself fat
So if you your trying to lose weight and find that the kilos are coming of to slow try increasing not only your activity but also the amount of food your are consuming. Food isn’t necessarily the problem its poor eating habits.



