Why Diets Fail and Why My Plan Does Not!!
Dieting is not effective at controlling weight. You can get a temporary weight loss with a diet, but each ‘system’ ultimately gives you weight gain in the long term. Losses in weight become increasingly difficult. Worst of all, you get progressively fatter on less food…
Dieting makes you fatter!!
How can that be??
WHY THE CALORIE MATHS DONT ADD UP…
The law of energy balance says that if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. There are 3500 calories in a pound of stored body fat. If you cut 1,000 calories per day from your daily maintenance level, it adds up to a 7,000 calorie deficit in one week. So on paper you should produce a weight loss of 2 pounds every week.
Simple maths right??
Mmmm not exactly…
When you introduce a calorie deficit at the start of the diet, you’ll lose weight, but it doesn’t take long before weight loss slows and sometimes stop. You would think you would lose 50 pounds in 25 weeks right??
Does this happen?? No!!
Well, the answer is simple, the maths equation changes…
The number of calories you burn initially may not be the same six months or a year later. In other words , energy balance is dynamic. When you lose body weight, you need fewer calories to support your smaller body. When calories are dropped you also drop your activity levels, this can happen without you realising too. Let’s be honest, less energy normally means we are less likely to want to get up and go…
The hormonal response from foods we eat also play a major part. When clients quiz me about calories I always challenge them to try and get fat on protein, it just will not happen!!
2,000 calories from cake and biscuits will give you a completely different hormonal response to 2,000 calories from chicken meat…
Also, most people don’t train properly to maintain muscle tissue, hammering the cardio machines in a desperate attempt to lose weight, if we burn muscle tissue we again have less need for calories for energy…
Can you see the spiralling mess we can potentially put our bodies into here?? We set out for positive change yet we have ended up in a worse place…
Why does my plan work better??
My clients are never told what to do or not do, ultimately they make there own decisions but with the right education they then have a basic understanding of their own metabolism, hormones and the response to why certain foods do different things when you eat them…
IT IS NOT ABOUT RESTRICTION, IT IS JUST SIMPLY ALL ABOUT MAKING BETTER EDUCATED DECISIONS…
All clients are given a nutritional guidance pack upon signing up, it is not just about training at PSPT. You are provided with the full package…
