If the Pasteur effect or type II muscle cells don't ring a bell, you don't know enough about fat loss.

     
         
   

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!):

  • Cardio only works for people with a high percentage of type I muscle cells. Such people tend to not be overweight in the first place. Type II muscle cells have very few mitochondria and burn practically no fat.
  • The success rate for fat loss in gyms is 0%. Exercising is much less important than a good diet (for fat loss. It is still recommended for health in general). It comes later, when your diet has prepared you for it.
  • Gyms aren't the best place to lose fat.
  • A good diet isn't simple. Just cutting down on fat/sugar will not work.
  • Drinking lots of water does not make you lose fat. But not drinking enough water prevents you from losing fat.
  • 2% of your proteic mass is broken down each day, causing loss of muscle tissue when you don't replace it by eating enough protein.
  • High protein diets are dangerous. Lack of carbohydrates cause the liver to break down fat into ketonic sugar for use in the brain and heart tissue. It is a good emergency mechanism, but ketonic sugar is toxic. (Throwing off your balance is never a good solution).
  • The hunger sensation is regulated by three hormones (cholecystokinin, ghrelin and leptin), nerve impulses from the stomach, and psychological reflexes. It seems complicated, but regulating hunger is an essential part of a successful diet. If you suffer while losing fat, you will soon be putting it right back on.
  • The Pasteur effect causes high fat loss in type I muscle cells during prolonged effort (details below).
  •    
             
             
         

    Why you are fat.

         
             
       

    You have more fat cells than a thin person does, and each of those 30+ billion fat cells contains more fat.

       
        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.

    How to lose fat and keep it off.

    2/3 of the strategy centers on your diet. It is absolutely inevitable. You'll regulate hunger, optimize cellular activity (metabolism) and digestion (very important). Soon, you'll be ready to work out efficiently.

    Dieting is tricky. Understand it and you won't ever fall for diets that don't work again. Understand fat loss and you can burn 50 lbs of fat in a year and keep it off forever, while regulating hunger, increasing cellular activity (metabolism) and without taking risks for your health. You will be taking into account everything that makes it especially difficult for you to lose fat.

    Take chances with a diet/workout plan you don't understand and you'll still be looking for a solution for years to come, and probably have much more fat to lose.

    Become an expert on fat loss and you will burn fat faster. It will be much more comfortable and the fat won't come back on when you blink.

    If you decide to just eat less and exercise more to lose fat, I promise you will lose. It is like David vs. Goliath, only much much worse. Learn how it works and you will see just how hopeless it really is down that path. Just look around you and consider the number of people you know that succeeded doing that.

    Abraham Lincoln said: If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first hour sharpening my axe. Learn first. It's worth it.

    Click here to learn how fat loss works in detail

    You'll learn to understand fat loss in general and apply it to optimize your diet for a faster metabolism, better digestion, and hunger regulation. You'll start working out when you are ready (ie: when you have the energy and actually want to), and you will do it right.

    You will be 50 lbs lighter in a year from now.

       
             
     

    articles     contact     start

    ©www.understandfatloss.com 2009

    affiliates