If the Pasteur effect or type II muscle cells don't ring a bell, you don't know enough about fat loss. |
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You can safely lose 50 lbs of pure fat in a year if you stay focused and use all the available leverage only knowledge can give you. You'll only find that focus and knowledge here.A few examples (and not the most important!): |
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Why you are fat. |
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You have more fat cells than a thin person does, and each of those 30+ billion fat cells contains more fat. |
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The number of fat
cells you have is determined by two things. Genetics, and how you ate as a
child. Fat cells multiply before you reach adulthood, then stop. Past this point, they can get bigger (stretch like balloons), but stop multiplying. It's actually difficult for them to increase in size, which is why weight gain levels out past a certain point. The fat cells are full. You probably have a high percentage of type II muscle cells.This works against you on two levels. Type II muscle cells have very few mitochondria. Those are the energy factories in cells that turn fat and sugar into ATP (energy blocks for cells). Type II muscle cells make energy differently, using an anaerobic process known as fermentation that only burns sugar (not fat). Having mostly type II muscles greatly reduces the effectiveness of the Pasteur effect that takes place mostly in type I muscle cells (they have many more mitochondria). It blocks sugar consumption in mitochondria and boosts fat consumption during prolonged effort, thus saving sugar and preventing hypoglycemia. Type II muscle cells are structurally inadequate for low intensity effort. This is why you probably slouch more than you should (standing upright is a prolonged, low intensity effort). If this is the case, endurance effort (jogging) is torture. Fat loss plans are designed for people that don't need it in the first place! This is just one of the areas where people looking to lose fat are being mislead.
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