OUTSMARTING THE FEMALE FAT CELL: YOU CANT STARVE A FAT CELL THE TRUTH ABOUT DIET
Of course, you lose some fat when you restrict calories and lose weight, but your fat cells become less efficient at losing fat. Your body wants to save its fat, not lose it. Again, it's a protective mechanism that ensures survival. Research has shown that dieting can reduce the fat-releasing lipolytic enzymes by 50 percent. Women already have fewer releasing enzymes than men, and dieting cuts them in half.
So there you have it. The survival of the fattest theory affects
the fat-enzyme system. You become twice as efficient in storage
and enlarging your fat cells, and half as efficient in releasing
and shrinking your fat cells. This is what can happen with just one diet cycle. What if you have gone on and off ten diets or twenty diets? The effect is cumulative. You have even more storage enzymes and fewer releasing enzymes with each diet cycle. Have you ever wondered why each time you go on a diet, you lose the weight more slowly and gain the weight back more quickly? I hope that this helps you to understand why. With each diet you are starting with fewer fat-releasing lipolytic enzymes and more fat-storing lipogenic enzymes. With each diet you have less of what it takes to lose weight and more of what it takes to gain weight.
Wait! the bad news about dieting isn't over yet. Not only do your fat cells become bigger and stronger, but your muscle cells become smaller and weaker. Your muscle cells do not have the protective bodyguards that your fat cells do. Fat cells won't starve, but muscle cells will.
Muscle is metabolically active tissue that requires calories to live. The more muscle, the higher your caloric needs. The less muscle, the lower your caloric needs. In order to survive starvation, your body will give up some of its muscle mass for two reasons:
- To provide energy for your body's vital needsyou break down some muscle mass for needed calories.
- To reduce your metabolism so that you don't need as many calories to live.
When you go on a diet, your body actually wants to get rid of some of its muscle to reduce your metabolism and conserve energy. Some of the weight that you lose is muscle weight. This is not good. It may sound good, but it is not. The less muscle you have, the slower your metabolism, the less you can eat, and the less weight you will lose. Muscle burns calories; fat stores calories. The less you burn, the more you store, the more you weigh.
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