Dieting Disaster

Dieting Disaster
You have been thinking a lot about your weight lately.
Maybe you have a wedding or another important event to
attend soon. And maybe you have decided to do something
about it.

If you are like most women, the first thought that popped
into your head was 'I'll diet it all away.' Certainly there
is no shortage of diets to choose from. Many of them work -
the scale certainly moves rapidly.

There is just one problem. Make sure you read this story
about Sally until the end to learn all about it. Sally
went on a diet, the scale is reading 10 pounds less, but
the mirror disagrees. What happened? She lost *weight*.

What she really wanted to do is lose fat, but instead she
lost weight. Let me explain the difference so you don't
make this mistake!

The two tissues that affect how we look most profoundly are
fat and muscle.

Muscle makes men look hunky and women look foxy (not
bulky). We all have and need some fat on our bodies, but
excessive fat makes both men and women look, well...FAT.

What's excessive for one person is perfectly normal for
another. 30 pounds of fat on a 200 pound man? Hunky! 30
pounds of fat on a 100 pound female? Twelve weeks away from
foxy. It is the proportion of fat to muscle that matters.

So what happened when Sally went on a diet? She lost a lot
of muscle and a little bit of fat. At the end of the diet
she looked worse than when she started.

When you reduce calories (go on a diet), your body has to
either burn fat or burn muscle to compensate. Your body
will choose muscle every time, unless you give it a good
reason to keep it.

There is only one good reason to keep muscle - use it! This
means that you MUST do proper weight training.

Muscle has other really cool benefits too. For instance, it
burns calories round the clock, even when you sleep. This
helps you get rid of fat faster, or simply eat a bit more
without getting fat.

The point is going on a diet without proper weight training
will make you look worse. Don't do it! Oh, and doing hour
long cardio sessions make the situation even worse!

Your best bet is not to diet at all and just eat nutritious
foods in reasonable quantities. But if you need to get in
shape in a hurry, there is no option but to diet. If you
must go this route, make absolutely certain that you are
performing a well-designed weight training program.

Don't lose weight, lose fat.

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George Grigoryan is a fitness coach who has helped dozens
of women sculpt the body of their dreams. To get his latest
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