Busting 3 Diet Myths Keeping You Fat

Happy Thanksgiving day to all US readers. On this day of culinary indulgence I thought it would be perfect timing to publish this guest post from Ryan busting 3 diet myths that keep you fat.

Before we go any further – or, before we even begin – I want to get something out of the way…

You Have Been LIED To…

Simply because the fitness industry DOESN’T want you to lose fat and keep it off for good…

Now don’t get me wrong the fitness industry does want to HELP you get in shape… but they certainly don’t want you to STAY in shape.

WHY?

You will stop spending money in the Health and Fitness market…

Think about it… you will:

STOP wasting cash on diet pills and fat burners.

STOP buying the latest fad diet craze.

STOP purchasing useless equipment.

STOP spending a ton of money buying into all of the “New Year” or “Holiday” hype.

Now if you listen to what I’m going to tell you you’ll also STOP…

You will STOP wasting time on diets that take forever to get results.

You will STOP wasting money on products you think you need to drop fat but in reality you don’t.

You will STOP buying into all of the lies that the popular fitness/health industry preach as truths.

You will STOP putting all your energy into some diet or exercise programme that is doomed to fail in the end.

And you will START to understand the science behind how real fat reduction is achieved in a SUPER FAST time.

In this post I’m going to show you EXACTLY how to melt away your body fat in the fastest and easiest way possible… whilst eating ice cream, juicy burgers and most food other dieters only DREAM about.

Why Should You Trust Me?

Because I have been were you are… I wasn’t happy with my body, it was affecting my confidence and I wanted to make a change.

I actually remember taking the first ‘before’ picture below in my girlfriends bathroom and I didn’t face sideways because I couldn’t bare to see how much my belly stuck out compared to how flat it was before.

In 25 days I had already lost17lb and 9 inches!

Why so fast?

It’s because I learned to do things a bit differently from what most experts are teaching.

In fact, in most cases, I do the EXACT opposite of the “popular” diet gospel… I break the common diet “rules”…

And for me… that has been the key reason why most people are still struggling to lose weight while I’ve found it easy to drop the fat and keep it off.

Now you know who I am I want to warn you… The following information is going to be controversial.

I’m going to tell you to BREAK the common diet rules.

You see somewhere down the line the bigwigs in the fitness industry got us all convinced that losing weight and getting in shape had to be an extremely difficult, hard to learn process that only certain people know about.

Why?

Because if something is complicated it must be worth more money right? And if something is too complicated you might just abandon it and buy something else.

Now here’s the problem…

By following the complicated, difficult and frustrating advice what the health and fitness “experts” say, you will eventually see how long and hard it is to get the results you want and that eventually leads to feeling frustrated, demotivated and usually ends up you quitting…

Right?

That is the result of most diets…

And I don’t blame you…

In fact, if you have ever felt like that in the past and ended up quitting your just the other 99% of people in the world… normal.

Now here’s the trick…

Instead of focusing on the many difficult, complicated and frustrating things the “experts” say we’re just going to focus on 5.

Enter the Minimum Effective Dose.

The Minimum Effective Dose

The minimum effective dose is simply the least amount of work you have to do to get the biggest results, and this is exactly what we focus on in the Rapid Fat Loss Diet.

For Example:

The minimum effective dose for boiling water is 100 degrees centigrade (212F) Higher temperatures wont make the water more boiled. It will just be wasteful.

Another example is to be perceived as fluently conversational in Spanish you need an active vocabulary of approx 2,500 high frequency words; this will allow you to comprehend more than 95% of conversation. To get to 98% comprehension you would need at least 5 years of practice instead of 5 months.

So…

There are approx 100,000 words in the Spanish language, this means 2,500 words is 2.5%.

This means that 2.5% of the subject matter provides 95% of the desired results. It is this 2.5% that I work with to provide my clients with the best results in the least amount of time.

The trick is finding the 2.5% and that is exactly what I provide you with in the Rapid Fat Loss Diet. But more about that later, right now I want to EXPOSE some of the biggest myths in the fitness/health industry that keep you from focusing on the 2.5% and ultimately keeps you from realising the 95% of results you can and will achieve.

Diet Myth # 1 – Skipping Meals Will Help You Lose Weight

In an effort to lose weight, some dieters mistakenly believe it is a good idea to skip meals. The reality is that skipping meals can actually lead to weight gain, which is obviously the last thing a dieter wants to see happen!

If are trying to lose weight, eating several small meals throughout the day rather than 2 or 3 larger meals will go a long way toward helping to achieve weight loss goals. This is partially because eating throughout the day helps prevent the body from going into what is
referred to as “starvation mode.” When the body goes without food for too long, it mistakenly believes it needs to start conserving energy and actually slows down metabolism, which means it doesn’t burn off fat and calories as quickly as it normally would.

During this “fasting,” carbohydrates, proteins and fats are used for energy. Carbohydrates are the number one source of fuel. As you progress during the day the chances of binging and overeating are high. Couple that with an already slowed metabolism and you’ve got a recipe for weight gain.

“If you are trying to watch your waistline, you don’t want to be skipping meals,” said Sari Greaves, RD, CDN, and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. “If you skip meals you become a hungry eater, and that means a much faster eater. The tendency to over-indulge is there and the greater risk for no
judgement. It takes 20 minutes to signal that you are full.”

The bottom line is if you want to drop fat then forget about missing meals.

Troy’s Thoughts:
I’ve read arguments for both extremes from 6-8 small meals to the Warrior Diet of a single meal per day. Both have research to back them, both work in different situations.

I’m a strong proponent of Intermittent Fasting in a structure that has me fasting through 16 hours then eating 2 meals in 8 hours each day. Lean Gains provides an excellent resource for delving into various forms of intermittent fasting.

In my opinion one variable is your will power with respect to food. Which is easier? smaller meals, or fewer meals. Binging is not an option.

Thoughts? Leave a comment below.

Diet Myth # 2 – Don’t Eat After 7pm (especially carbs)

One of the most popular diet rules is to stop eating after 7pm or 8pm or 9pm or 10pm or whatever made up time so many diet/fitness “experts” tell you.

The myth states that if you eat after 8pm, the food you eat will turn into body fat. Your metabolism does not shut down at night. In fact, your metabolism can’t even tell time.

A study was carried out [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475137] that proved that eating carbs at night time doesn’t effect how much of that food is stored as fat. The test subjects were split into 2 groups and both groups ate the same amount of calories each day. The experimental group ate the majority of their carbs at night in an evening meal.

This experimental group that focused on eating more carbs at night resulted in higher weight loss; a difference of 2Kg! This isn’t a license to go around stuffing you face at night but it proves that there is no magical cut off time when the food you eat makes you fat.

Even with carbs.

Diet Myth # 3 – You Can’t Cheat On Your Diet

This is one of the first “rules” of dieting right? Your not allowed to eat the foods you love because those foods are ‘bad’ for you which means you have to eat bland tasteless food all the time – it’s just the price you have to pay for the body you want…

Right?

WRONG!!

Shhh … it’s a secret.

You don’t need to deprive yourself of anything. In fact eating the foods you love – ice cream, chocolate, burgers are essential if you want to drop fat fast and keep it off.

How does it Work?

Your takes your body about 1 week to enter “starvation” mode due to caloric restriction (dieting), and by this time all the negative effects start to happen like slow/stalled fat loss and decreased metabolism.

The good news is it only takes 1 day to reverse via strategic “cheating”. And on this day you can eat as much junk as you like.

The technical explanation is by spiking your caloric intake once per week (stuffing your face) it will stop your metabolic rate downshifting from caloric restriction during the week. It also SUPER BOOSTS fat reduction from increasing cAMP and GMP to improving the conversion of the T4 thyroid hormone to the more active T3.

That’s Right: Eating Pure Crap Helps You Lose Fat

This means:

NO MORE CRAVINGS – You will have a MASSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFIT knowing you’ll be able to enjoy all your favorite foods in a couple of days time when cheat day rolls around.

NO MORE DECREASED MOTIVATION – You will actually be excited about stepping on the scales day after day to see the massive amounts of weight your dropping with this“cheat”.

So get ready to cheat… and I mean literally eat WHATEVER YOU WANT!

But only 1 day per week.

By strategically cheating on your diet you give your metabolism a major boost which sets you up for for plenty of subsequent fat loss when you go back to ‘diet’ days.

So whatever junk food you crave, from chocolate – pizza, by all means cheat away. This is a principle we fully embrace in the rapid fat loss diet.

Fat Loss Formula

The basic formula is:

You eat fat burning foods to burn calories e.g. proteins, vegetables and legumes.

You start losing fat

You keep eating foods that release specific fat burning hormones

Your body starts to get used to the foods you eat and fat loss will begin to slow

You CHEAT on your diet for ONE day

Fat loss restarts at a phenomenal pace

You go back to eating fat loss foods

You continue using fat

Your metabolism stay super high

You repeat as needed.

So there you have 3 diet myths that keep you fat.

About The Author: Ryan Phillips is an online fat loss coach and author of the Rapid Fat Loss System. You can ask him for advice on his blog or download his free report here Free Fat Loss Report to help you drop fat in the fastest and easiest way possible.