I grew up around farms when I was a kid in Texas. A lot of my extended family was in the dairy business. I loved going to visit them during summer holidays because my cousins and I would cook up the most outlandish schemes and games while we were together. I loved the food even more.
I was a city kid, so the fresh butter and home made ice cream was always a treat. We got fresh milk, butter, cottage cheese, yogurts, and that dreamy ice cream through out those hot Texas days.
Yet to my recollection, no one was fat or obese. In fact, we looked like a bunch of scrawny kids as I look at some old photos today. I realize we were young and had very high metabolisms, but my grand parents, aunts, and uncles were all normal size hardworking people.
I did not realize it then, but there was a magical secret to their diets that would help me lose and keep the weight off for good later. Yes folks, dairy products help you take off the fat!
Research has shown that consuming ½ a cup of 2% cottage cheese as a late night snack actually helps you lose weight while preserving the precious fat burning lean muscle mass in your body. The enzymes and nutrients in the cottage cheese make the body work at digestion and burns fat.
The cottage cheese causes no rise in the body's glycemic index (blood sugar) and preserves muscle repair and building. The body does most of its repair in the sleep state so this is an excellent food for the late night snacker – like me!
University studies on dairy products also show that people who added three servings of yogurt per day lost an average of 61% more body fat
and kept it off than those who did not. Additionally, studies have also shown that the increase in calcium intake for eating dairy products helps you to burn fat, and actually inhibits the body from creating fat in the first place!
One of the great secrets to weight loss is burning fat without losing muscle.
The simple scientific fact behind this principle is the more muscle you have, the more fat your body will burn off on its own. The problem with most diets like the Atkins is that as you starve your body of carbohydrates it eats it own muscle as well.
When you are done losing your excess weight, which means lost fat and muscle, you have less lean mass left than when you started. This allows your body to put the weight back on twice as fast as before.
Everyone who's yo-yoed on diets KNOWS this nasty phenomenon as rapid weight gain. This causes so much grief and frustration that many just give up and go right on gaining.
NO one told them that losing all that "weight" by starvation meant losing one of their best friends for keeping their weight within a normal range and maintaining their health. In fact, muscle speeds up the fat burning process much better than most carb cutting diets can.
Every pound of muscle you add will make your body burn about 45 extra calories a day to maintain it. So, if we work to turn some of your fat into more muscle, you can burn a tremendous amount more of fat without lifting a finger.
Just trading in fat for as few as 5 pounds of muscle will help you burn about 1 pound of fat every week. Now that's what I call the ultimate weight loss weapon!
"GEEEEZE Chris, that sounds like its going to be a lot of sweat and hard work!" I can hear the old resistance wheels in your heads turning as you read this. Well let me tell you that you are WRONG!
I'm not talking about joining a gym and killing yourself with weights. I'm not talking about ridiculous aerobic goals either. The Weight Loss By The Numbers Plan combines what you need to do in your dietary intake, along with very attainable exercise goals and the psychology of how and why you will lose the weight.
You will be provided with the opportunity to turn fat into muscle and regain your health along with a normal weight. All you will have to do is follow the plan to attain your goals!
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