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The Zig Zag Calorie Method
The Zig Zag Calorie MethodTo lose fat, you must have a deficit in calories; that is you must burn more calories than you consume. However, what you definitely do not want is a large deficit for a long period of time. For example, to put it very simplistically, if you need to take in 2200 calories a day to maintain your normal weight, (maintenance level) and you eat only 1500 calories a day, you will lose weight. The weight loss will not be tremendous, but it will be steady. You will be content as every day you weigh yourself the scales will show you are less than before. Until a time comes, after a week or two, you will reach a plateau. Why? Because your body is not programmed to lose weight, it is still in the caveman days and is programmed to hang on to fat stores incase of hard times. When it sees you getting by very nicely on 1500 calories, it will think, ‘Well, we can manage on this’, and will kick into ‘starvation mode’ when it hangs onto every fat gram it has, thinking there are hard times ahead and adjusting your metabolism very nicely to what you are taking in daily. Isn’t the human body a wonderful thing?
The way to “outsmart” your body’s starvation response is to avoid prolonged calorie deficits. You simply follow a calorie deficit for a short period of three days, but before your body has a chance to decrease it’s metabolic rate, you raise your calorie intake back up to maintenance level (the amount of calories your body needs to neither gain of lose weight) or even above maintenance level for one or two days.
Body builders call this the zig-zag rotation method.
Your metabolism will speed up tremendously when you increase your calorie intake, and if this method is followed correctly, your body will become it’s own fat burning machine. |
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I will tell my wife that my body is still in caveman mode and see what she says.
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