So are you one of those many people who proudly boast about how they lost oodles of weight by just exercising and not restricting themselves of all the goodies in food? Well unfortunately this post will burst that happy bubble you've lived in so far.
Lets unravel the whole Non restricting Diet concept shall we?
Is it all about your calorie intake really? - When people say " I eat whatever I want to but I make sure I burn it out with exercise" who are they kidding ? If only the body needed calories and used calories we'd be living on alcohol, candy or sugar syrup all our lives and no harm would be done so long as we exercise it out. The fundamental principle of energy in = energy out is a must to maintain your ideal body weight however we have a human body and mind to run here and it ain't no calorie counter alone. Our body essentially converts one form of energy into another and whatever it can't, it stores up as fat. Now having said that it completely depends on our food to provide it with essential nutrients it cannot produce on its own like peptides, amino acids, fatty acids, certain saccharides (carbohydrate molecules), antioxidants like vitamins, minerals, acids, and many more. These are essential not only because the body cannot produce it, but also because these are molecules that are used for building, strengthening, repairing, rejuvenating, flushing out toxins, fighting pollution or any harmful agents externally/ internally. If you do not focus on providing these to your body, well it has no choice but to show you the ugly picture eventually. By eating excess fat, sugar, preservatives, not organically fished or produced sea food, meat, milk, dairy or eggs you are bringing in more pollutants to your body than you could naturally possess. Make no mistake these pollutants are the root cause of all our diseases apart from high fat/ sugar diets we consume.
Are you being fooled? So what really happens when they lose weight ? Sure enough they at first like everyone who loses weight undergo water loss in the first 2-3 weeks because it takes the body a month to acclimatize to the amount of energy lost each day due to exercise and therefore also a week or two for accommodating water loss due to dehydration . Yes some amount of fat loss does occur but it won't be a steadily declining one since the intake of energy isn't going down or remaining constant either. What you often see as a weight loss is nothing but fluctuating water content in the body and some amount of fat loss. What you don't notice in these cases is the exhaustion the body has to be put under due to not good nutrition and a lot of exercise. Most of the times these people are so aware of their bad eating habits that they exercise over an hour everyday without a weekly break of 48 hours. This sends the body to plateau and exhaustion since it doesn't get enough nutrients to repair and rejuvenate after the exercise instead it gets the same food as it did before which is devoid of nutrients due to the way of cooking. One of the two is happening here either you are fooling your body or your body is fooling you. In the long run nothing constructive comes out.
Nutrients Missing in Food - When people are on a non - restrictive diet they usually take leisure in their food and don't pay attention to how it was cooked. In a restrictive diet specific for weight loss or otherwise only the bad stuff is restricted but not completely avoided and is self taken care of the correct amount of micro nutrients as well as macro nutrients. While eating all you want and exercising later lets you munch through all the wrong varieties like deep fried, sugar coated, salty, preserved or canned, buttered or cheese laden, you name it and you have it. Like in my previous posts I have repeatedly mentioned that anything with excess fat will run into trouble while getting absorbed in the intestine. Similarly excess of anything that will not allow bio-availability (available for absorption) of nutrients like protein, vitamins, minerals is doing you no good to eat it. It isn't only important to eat in limits of calories but also what is available in the form of nutrients to your body. Losing and gaining weight depends on how healthy your body is overall not just what shows on the scale. There are many people who are fooled by the thought and idea that since one loves food the only way out to a healthy lifestyle is burn it out but if only it were this simple many people like me would be out of work. If you need proper customized plan for your lifestyle to take care of your health needs do take a free trial consultation over live video / voice chat or discover the Online Wellness Programs.
Wish you wellness.
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