The Problem With Quick Weight Loss Plans

By Russ Howe


One of the biggest problems in the fitness industry is the number of people who can't lose weight on a low calorie diet regardless of what they do in the gym. If you fall into this category, you are certainly not by yourself.

Before you go any further with your diet or exercise routine, eliminating what is not currently working is your priority.

Most people who reach this point have two very big issues in common:

1. They usually consume a very small number of calories every day.

2. They usually perform hour after hour of aerobic activity.

If you see yourself in either of those two situations, there is a very clear reason why you can not achieve the results you are trying to achieve on the gym floor. The combination of overly performing cardiovascular exercise and eating too few calories per day is an absolute show stopper when it comes to curbing your weight loss efforts.

Of course, on top of the list of dieting mistakes is the fatal error of removing all your favorite junk foods from your daily eating plan. In doing this, you immediately turn your new routine into an uphill struggle against your will. In turn, individuals who do this usually follow it up with the equally devastating move of restricting their calorie intake far too much. The body reacts by forcing itself into emergency survival mode.

In an attempt to curb your insanely low calorie diet from starving it to death, the body begins to adapt to this low food intake by storing as much as it can and holding on to what it has got. This is why you'll often see girls who spend hours in the gym and live on salads, yet seemingly cannot lose any fat.

It is also quite common to see people coupling this poor strategy with overly long aerobic exercise. This type of exercise, when performed in excess, has been shown to break down lean muscle tissue and is a toxic ingredient in a weight loss plan.

Perhaps you have looked at these two common mistakes and seen yourself making one of them on a regular basis. If so, that is a good thing, as it allows you to see where you went wrong and correct it for the future. Instead of starving your body, aim to consume a calorie intake of roughly 12x your goal body weight in pounds.

It would also be worth taking a week to familiarize yourself with high intensity interval training, or HIIT for short, which has been scientifically accepted as a superior method for blasting adipose tissue. It also provides you with shorter, more enjoyable workout sessions.

Before you jump to the conclusion that you can't lose weight on a low calorie diet and workout program, look at why you aren't seeing any results. By incorporating the latest science, as we have done today, you can see that the solution to your problem is not very complex at all.




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