Calories are low, but you STILL aren't dropping that last bit of body fat?

I've been there more times than I'd like to admit.

You reduce calories...

 

Your metabolism compensates by burning fewer calories.

Stupid survival mechanism!

When you increase calories?

Your metabolism speeds up.

The problem is that it doesn't speed up enough to match that increase in calories.

This is a frustrating when you are trying to drop body fat.

Your metabolism is like the strict dad on Footloose.

He doesn't understand your dreams of dancing to Kenny Loggins songs.

He wants to crush your goals of dancing to undanceable music.

 

I want you to be like the dude who busted out some legit poppin' and lockin' moves in the Footloose dance circle.

While everyone is struggling with traditional methods...

You will be way ahead of the crowd.

You will understand the slowing of the metabolism that comes from reducing calories.

Weight loss is a pretty simple equation.

• If you burn more than you eat, you lose weight.
• If you eat more than you burn, you gain weight.

The problem is that your body tends to slow down the calories burned, every time you cut calories.

Your metabolism slows to a tiny flame.

It becomes a race to the bottom.

You cut calories, metabolism slows, then you cut calories further.

What some diets do to combat this is to have high calorie high carb cheat days.

This CAN work.

The problem is that often times these cheat days result in a decent amount of fat gain.

A slowed metabolism + a ton of calories = weight gain.

The idea is that a high carb cheat day will ramp up the metabolism...

...so when the low calorie diet is reintroduced it creates a large calorie deficit again.

This method can be effective

BUT.

What if we ate in a way that kept the metabolism burning hot?

I've been following an ultra high carb diet plan that has been allowing me to drop body fat unlike anything I've used in the past.

I will talk a bit about it in the next blog post.