The Dangers of Dieting and Four Steps to Reshape Your Metabolism
So where exactly does the problem lie? While dieting can be a useful method, it's too weak to help you achieve your goals. Long-term dieting can also slow down your metabolism. When you reduce your food intake, you're also cutting back on the calories your metabolism needs to function at its peak, thus slowing it down. When you use a restrictive diet, you're essentially training your metabolism to work at a slower pace. Then, when you do need to eat or drink, the food and liquids aren't absorbed efficiently because your body stores them as fat!
Forget about self-control!
According to the methods presented in this book, losing weight doesn't mean becoming someone who can't enjoy chocolate chip cookies and ice cream for fear of losing weight. Successful metabolic control isn't achieved through long-term dietary self-restraint. This powerful new weight loss method doesn't advocate achieving weight loss through self-discipline; activating metabolism is the essence of this approach. And after adopting this method, you won't have long before you become a big winner in weight loss and fitness.
Imagine the liberation you'd feel when you know your activated metabolic system is doing its job, fully prepared and capable of burning excess calories instead of turning them into fat. Therefore, this book won't use terms like "self-control"; it focuses solely on promoting a healthy lifestyle that makes you healthier and more energetic.
Forget all the exercise methods you know from the past!
To date, the author has successfully run a nutrition consulting firm and several large, still-expanding fitness clubs. Believe me, I've seen far more false advertising and hypocritical lies than many others. Sometimes, a business's enthusiasm isn't based on concern for your health or a desire for you to lose weight quickly, but rather on a focus on your wallet.
Contrary to what you might get from TV commercials, exercise will not turn you into a muscular man or woman in six weeks or less. Exercise neither turns fat into muscle nor hides any physical flaws. No matter how much the marketing hype, moderate exercise will not lead to weight loss.
Is exercise important for long-term weight control? You'd better believe it is. But in this book, I will show you that exercise's greatest contribution to weight control isn't just its ability to burn calories, but rather the incredible and transformative changes it brings to the metabolic system-this is the most crucial and decisive factor. If more people understood the whole process of changing their metabolism through exercise, their desired exercise plans might not be so daunting-currently, over 15% of adults are still following extremely painful daily workout schedules.
While exercise does burn calories, and when done correctly, it can even quickly burn stored body fat, your real motivation for exercising should be to speed up your metabolism. However, a faster metabolism requires regular exercise. Even then, you won't significantly increase your metabolic rate unless you follow the new methods explained in later chapters of this book. These new methods burn calories and fat comprehensively, even when you're not exercising or sleeping!
Make a commitment to yourself...
To rebuild your metabolic system and maintain lifelong health, you must follow these four steps systematically:
1. Cleanse your metabolic system;
2. Readjust your diet (meal times, quantity and quality of food).
3. Employ strength training and cardiovascular exercises, which can both stabilize your metabolic rate in the long term and accelerate it.
4. Train your brain.
Sounds difficult, right? Believe me, it's not difficult at all. We've prepared many prompts and motivational methods to ensure you successfully achieve this amazing, life-enhancing change. You can experience these changes in 30 days or less! That's right! In less than 30 days, your metabolic system will become an active calorie-burning furnace, leading to weight loss, restored health, and a richer, more balanced, and more fulfilling life.
As mentioned earlier, each chapter of this book contains a technique that helps accelerate the body's metabolism. Therefore, you don't have to wait until you finish the book to discover its amazing effects, because the book is designed so that you can practice the methods at the end of each chapter after reading it. Please help yourself and persevere in reading this book until you have learned all the methods. In fact, I would also suggest that you take the extra step of self-care and reread the book after you finish reading it.
More than a decade ago, when I was a student, I was in the same situation as you are now. Every time I reread a book, I made new discoveries. This isn't because you overlooked things the first time you read the book, but because you are no longer the person you were the first time you read it. Each time you read the book, you're likely to discover something new that can help you in your pursuit of health. Every time you reread the book-no, you reread each chapter (because as you read, you must practice the methods in each chapter)-your body will become better and healthier.
Once you have control over the speed of your metabolism, you won't, or simply put, you won't believe the enormous changes happening to you, and these changes will be long-term and permanent.
For many of my clients, their excess weight seems to disappear automatically when their metabolic system controls the fat they consume from their daily diet and uses it as fuel instead of storing it in the body. Believe me, you too will become a powerful person, experiencing destructive urges for the first time in your life. Furthermore, you will reap two particularly valuable benefits.
First and foremost, your dietary habits can be transformed. You can forget about those painful dietary restrictions you've endured for years. Once your metabolism speeds up, you'll no longer be caught in the same dilemma you've faced countless times before-whether to eat or not, worrying that ordinary foods will become a health disaster.