Is Your Weight Loss Real?

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

5 Must Rules of Weight Loss

5 Must Rules of Weight Loss

1.  Never, Never, Never Skip meals or snacks. To keep your body from going onto full blown starvation mode, make sure that you have some kind of nutrition coming into your body every 3-4 hours. I see a number of clients slow or halt their weight loss results by skipping meals or snacks. Don’t slow your success! Eat meals and snacks. If you are cutting calories to accelerate results, adjust your dinner. Never decrease vegetables as a form of calorie cutting.

2.     Get your rest. You are deprived from calories and your body is working over time to turn fat into usable fuel. During this time, your body’s ability to recover and recuperate is impaired. To help your body repair, get extra sleep, lean protein with each meal and plenty of vegetables.

3.     Understand your body and adapt. If you find your energy is low at a specific time in the day, then treat the problem the next day by consuming green tea, herba mate or other energy boosters 1 hour before your energy’s low. I personally start my day with a green tea, another cup in the mid morning, and again between lunch and dinner to decrease appetite.

4.     Ensure flushing is happening. On a regular basis, it would be good to have 1-2 bowel movements per day. During weight loss, seek to ensure you are flushing completely by in taking a lot of water and make sure you get your chia drink. If this alone is not causing you to have more bowel movements then normal, try herbal laxative tea. I like Smooth Move or Get Regular.

5.     Move fast and often. Look to keep your mind and body directed. Move often as possible and when you are moving, move fast. Lots of movement through out the day can cause you to burn as much calories as you would in a 1-hour  intense work out. Keeping your body moving will keep your metabolism high.