Fat Burning Optimizers: Cheat Day

"Calories in... calories out." 

Isn't that what we've always been told by our doctors, nutritionists and trainers as the foundation for losing weight?  While it's a true statement - eat less and exercise more and you will lose weight - it's also an oversimplification of the realities of body physiology.

Let's examine the "calories in" concept.  When you cut back on your calorie consumption, your body attempts to counteract the lack of food by preserving your own body fat. Why?  Fat provides energy and warmth which are two very important things for your survival when food is scarce.  The body will slow metabolism, decrease the production of fat burning hormones and increase the production of fat storing hormones, all of which protect your current body fat stores.

So how do you eat fewer calories without causing your body to protect its fat stores?   Fortunately, the body's response to dieting is a gradual one. It takes about a week of dieting for the negative metabolism and hormone changes to occur.  At the end of that week, we need to return the body to where it was seven days ago.  According to Joel Marion, Certified Sports Nutritionist and Certified Personal Trainer, the way to do that is with a cheat day.  It only takes one day of overfeeding - or cheating - to bring hormone levels back up to normal and put your body back into the fat burning zone.  (If you have ever lost weight during the first week of a diet plan but struggled the following week with the same plan, your body adjusted to protect your fat stores.)

What are the best foods to cheat with?   Any food with a high glycemic index will do:  simple carbohydrates will cause the body to increase insulin production which triggers the normalization of fat burning and fat storing hormones.  Some examples are:

• Pizza
• Macaroni and cheese
• Doughnuts
• Cookies
• Pancakes
• French toast
• Biscuits

So now you've had your cheat day (just one!) and your body's hormones and metabolism are back to normal.  Your body is now primed in a big way to burn fat again for another week.  After splurge day, you’ll want to create a large calorie deficit via minimal calorie intake and massive energy expenditure through optimized exercise. Wouldn't such a massive calorie deficit just throw your body back into starvation mode?   It won't if you exercise in a way that is strategically and scientifically designed to stimulate the release of fat burning hormones.

There is a way to take this fat burning optimizer to the next level.  On the day before cheat day, limit the consumption of insulin producing carbs and do exercises specifically designed to deplete the body's carbohydrate stores. This allows the body to make room for the carb splurge that will take place the next day.

With this optimal strategy, and others, you can reach your fat loss goals.  Smarter methods, as the basis of a strategic diet and exercise program, will result in the fastest fat loss.

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