by Dr John M Berardi, CSCS
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.BurnTheFat.com
I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight. “Big losers” don’t impress me, for numerous reasons. For example, weight is not fat. “Weight” could be composed of mostly lean tissue, or it could be mostly water weight. In fact, I would go a step further and point out that rapid loss of bodyweight correlates very highly with a greater chance of relapse, weight re-gain and long term failure.
So what does impress me? What gets my attention?
I pay attention to what the “long term maintainers” have to say - those are the people who have maintained an ideal weight for over a year… preferably even 2-5 years or more.
The difference between losers and maintainers
As I was researching the subject of long term weight maintenance recently, I was surprised at the huge amount of research that's already been done in this area.
One paper that caught my interest was published by Judy Kruger and colleagues in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, titled,
“Dietary and physical activity behaviors among adults successful at weight loss maintenance.”
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by Dale Kelley
Capital Region Fitness
What if I could hook you up to some sort of new fangled breath analysis machine that could determine exactly how many calories, what food choices, and what supplements you'd need to lose weight and become more physically fit? I were able to prescribe for you the best diet or eating plan – what do you think would happen?
I’ll tell you what would happen. You wouldn’t follow it.
Don’t believe me?
You already know how to “eat right”. You know you should eat more fruits and vegetables. You know you shouldn’t have that extra slice of pizza, that McD’s, the Whopper AND the cheesecake (does BK cheesecake even taste good?). But still you do it!
How many people do you know who’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, etc., who fail to make the changes required to stay alive?
Why is it so hard for people to make lifestyle changes – even in the face of death? Well, unless they really don’t want to change, the three biggest roadblocks are:
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By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com
Why do you always hear that 2 pounds per week is the maximum amount of fat you should safely lose? If you train really hard while watching calories closely shouldn’t you be able to lose more fat without losing muscle or damaging your health? What if you want to lose fat faster? How do you explain the fast weight losses on The Biggest Loser?
These are all go
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By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com
Why do new year’s resolutions usually fail? Why do you start with guns blazing on January 1st, but by February, you’re losing motivation, cheating on your diet, skipping workouts, and slipping back into old patterns? John LaValle, a master trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) suggests that we should take a closer look at the meaning behind the word “Resolution.” Being derived from the word “re-solve," it really means “to solve again.” And isn’t that exactly what happens? You solve the same problem again and again, year after year?
You know what I’m talking about… That 20 pounds you lost last year, and promptly gained it right back… you are now resolving to take it off again aren’t you? The very nature of the word resolution implies gaining it back again.
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