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Hilary Howard
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If you want to lose weight, your body has to be convinced to pull calories (energy) from your fat cells.

Your body has four compartments of energy from which to draw to meet its metabolic needs: blood glucose, glycogen (stored glucose), muscle, and fat. It draws on these energy sources in a very specific order - first burning the glucose in the blood and next the glycogen reserve.

Once your glycogen is exhausted, then and only then will your body turn to the muscle and fat compartments.This means that every time you replenish your glycogen stores, the fat-burning stops until it the glycogen is once again depleted.

This is one of the big reasons we have to cut calories in order to lose weight.

How It Works

But, there’s more involved in losing weight than the traditional advice of just cutting calories - the "calories in, calories out" advice.

Everyone agrees that it matters how many calories you’re taking in – but there are a few crucial secrets that can make all the difference between success and failure.

If we take the standard USDA recommendations of approximately 60% of calories derived from "good carbohydrates", 25% from protein and 15% from "healthy fats" and simpy go on a diet and cut those amounts in half, we will have a "balanced diet" with one-half the calories. Yes, you will lose weight. This is why most popular weight loss programs base their programs on a "balanced diet".

The problems with this seemingly logical approach.

WHEN USING IDEAL PROTEIN YOU ACTUALLY EAT AN “UNBALANCED DIET” INSTEAD OF A BALANCED ONE.

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Here's the reason. If we continue to replenish some of the glycogen stores every day by consuming carbs and fats, our fat-burning will stop until those have been depleted. This leads to an erratic weight loss.

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Secondly, and more importantly, decreasing the minimum daily requirements of protein will lead to muscle loss. As blood glucose drops (from low calorie intake) the body will burn fat...but will also break down muscle. And, as we lose muscle our metabolism slows.

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Now when these folks have achieved their goal weight, what is the predictable result? They go back to eating "normal size" meals but their metabolism is slower and they regain the weight, often times ending up heavier than when they started the diet.

HOW WE WORK

Using Ideal Protein, our protocol takes a different track.

We keep the minimum daily protein requirement the same (roughly 1/2 gram of protein per pound of lean body weight) and build your diet around this.

Understand, this is not a "high protein diet". We give only the minimum and we do this to spare the muscle. Loss of muscle is unacceptable to us during a diet. (This is one of the reasons you'll get a weekly body composition scan. By doing this, we'll confirm that your body is maintaining muscle mass as you lose fat.)

Next, we'll eliminate most fats from your diet, but supplement your new, healthy diet with ample amounts of essential fatty-acids and proteins.

By now, you probably have plenty of questions that one of our weight loss coaches can answer. Take the first step to lose the weight and give us a call to learn more about this program.

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