Permanent Weight Loss VS Temporary Weight Loss
I’ll never forget one of FitForever’s most exciting weight loss challenges. During this challenge we had some challengers who were experiencing huge weight loss numbers. When the final numbers were in, I was blown away. 4 people in our challenge had lost 40 + pounds in 28 days. One challenger lost 48lbs, that is 1.7 lbs per day or in other words, a 5,950 calorie deficit daily. In intense exercise, a great 60 minute session would burn 1000 calories. I never thought results like this were possible and while I was excited about the results I was nervous about the long term effect and rebounding of weight gain.
My nervousness was validated when in our next challenge, only 1 of our 40lb loser’s had kept weight off. The harsh realization of true weight loss was on the table. Is weight loss when you loose weight only to gain it back again? Extreme fad diets that cause rapid weight loss, immediately to gain it back, is like a doctor who negligently prescribes an addictive medication with a million side effects. Rapid weight loss plans typically sacrifice long-term health, your metabolism, and hormone regularity and leads to large weight gain. Once your metabolism and other body systems are compromised by extreme diets, weight gain is more rapid and weight loss is harder to achieve. When weight loss becomes harder to achieve you are more likely to participate again in an extreme diet. This is referred to in the fitness industry as yo-yo dieting. Yo-Yo dieting is where you go from extreme diet to no nutrition plan and then back to extreme diet again. This is coupled by rapid weight loss and rapid weight gain. Yo-Yo dieting is hard on your body and long term health. Our goal at FitForever is to create a reality that stays away from Yo-Yo dieting.
True weight loss can only happen when you find a new lifestyle that allows the weight loss to stay off or continue.
FitForevers 2012 Spring WLC nutrition plans are not focused on immediate weight loss but on true permanent weight loss. Week 1 ingredients and quantity are focused on long term health by:
- Eliminating preservatives, gluten, trans fats, sugars and other toxins
- Building the heart and circulatory system
- Supporting hormone balance
- Boosting the metabolism.
Weeks 2 & 3 are focused on lifestyle and quantity. Week 4 will be another shock to the body similar to week 1. Here is how your personal plan should develop after the challenge is over. Find meals, quantities and combinations from weeks 2 & 3 that you can do more permanently. Then every 3 or 4 weeks repeat 3 of your favorite days from week 1 or week 4 as a weight loss shock to the body.
Every time you follow a clean healthy nutrition plan you need to determine; are these lifestyle meals and snacks or shock meals and snacks? Health and nutrition is a life long development process. Be aware of how different foods make you feel and choose the foods that make you feel the best! If you choose your nutritional intake based on how it makes feel you, you will live long, you will be strong and you will laugh forever! We love you and are excited about your health.
Love Jared
