by Michelle Haas Beaumont on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 2:03pm
If you are in the gym, eating well and are not getting results. There may be a bigger reason than just too many calories or not enough activity. The problem usually is that the metabolism has plateaued. Often this is the result of yo-yo dieting, competition diets for figure, fitness or bodybuilding, not enough calories over time or losing too much weight too quickly on fad diets. This stubborn syndrome occurs because the hormones are not grounded. Your adrenals when under stress for too long will no longer function the way they used to. This is why figure and fitness competitors are told over and over not to compete in too many shows too quickly. If the body does not recover from the lack of carbs, sugar, salt and intensive exercise, it will rebel. The only girls who successfully can compete on this level, I hate to break the news to you, tend to be on aggressive speed type supplements with added hormones to their body. Growth hormone and steroids are the way people cheat their way to long term success and very muscular physiques. However, I have yet to meet a female who admits to using anything other than vitamins, nutrition and exercise. I learned through my own body, there is only so far you can get even with all ducks in a row. I have worked with top competition trainers and I assure you even their diets did not work without the extras. I lived on ephedra for my first year competing and looked like a refugee on crack. I can guarantee that if you use speedy fat burning supplements that over time, you are going to have some form of nerve damage and they will change your body's chemical make up. How can something that speeds up your heart rate and toys with your thyroid, which in turn effects adrenals, manipulates your insulin levels and heats your body up for several hours, NOT? If you have any health issues, this could even kill you or cause the problem to get much worse. I have seen many girls go to the hospital with low potassium, sodium and magnesium and nearly had heart attacks and strokes. It is important to not believe everything someone tells you about food and exercise. Winning is not worth your health. It is important that you gage how you feel. With numbing supplements in your body that tell you to work harder, faster, more intense, I can assure you, you are not feeling what is really going on with your body. What will is a good yoga class while not a fat burner and a massage. You will realize the STRESS your body is under training at this intensity. It's dangerous when you do not pace yourself, give yourself time to recover and return to normal healthy eating.
Fortunately, repairing metabolic damage is possible, although is very complicated initially. What once works, will simply not work any longer. The old diets do not do a thing nor the old exercise. It will require very specific metabolism stimulating exercises and metabolism stimulating nutrition (NOT a diet). Maintaining a muscular/toned/well shaped body is a lot of effort for most and I assure you deprivation. No one's body can stay and live like this long term. I can assure you, as you age too, things will and do change. The ones you see still maintaining HGH levels (what is required to grow muscle) are not just doing this naturally. I do think after 35 it is fair to use a little HGH although It is very expensive, but doctors can prescribe it. Beverly International (www.beverlyinternational.com) has a great product called GH Factor and I love their Glutamine Select with Branched Chain Amino Acids in it. This is the official way, I have tried to preserve my muscles through the years. However, I'm not going to lie to you, if it was not so expensive, I would opt for some HGH injections on a regular basis from an anti-aging doctor. We lose muscle as we age and our inability to grow muscle plays a role in why our metabolism winds up defaulting. Eating protein alone, will not do the trick. the problem is when we are young, we do not care about anything, but looking good. Our ego's take over our ability to prevent damage in the future. The addiction to ourself and how we look clouds our better judgement of what it is worth to take anything and everything over the counter just to shape up! We love the way we look and feel when in shape and then one day show is over. The show must go on in our daily life and we don't want to wind up as has-beens or washed up. The best prevention is not to over diet or over train. We must pace ourselves and be patient in order to have long term results without terrible side effects, which can also be life threatening.
The irony of most diet programs is that they claim to help you lose unwanted weight, but they only make it harder for you in the long run. This is because they focus on harsh metabolism-decreasing methods of dieting and not enough weight training or muscle building exercises. Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem are some of the most popular weight loss programs out there. Why? Because people are uneducated about the importance of growing muscle. If you do not succeed long term on these programs, guess what you will do, call them back and get back on because at one time you lost 10-20lbs so you believe it will work again or that it works at all. This will never work, if you do not address your body's need to grow muscle to safeguard the metabolism. I am speaking of NATURAL MUSCLE, not enhanced by shots. That type of muscle will also go away and you will become a drug addict. The reason is simple, you will become addicted to looking great with muscle and pay to keep your body that way. When you remove the substance, you lose the muscle and you are all bodyfat again, so you cycle back on the same substance because you can not stand the way you look. This is how we develop a dysmorphic view of your body. It is so hard to compete and then go back to a normal body and believe you look okay just as an average bear. It is never good enough! Just like the ladies who were once very thin in their 20's and now weigh a healthy weight in their 40's and 50's. We are so hard on ourselves about maintaining what we once were that we wind up starving ourselves or just giving up completely. We will pay every trainer, expert, buy the books, search for the magic pills to take us back to that place we once were. This only damages our metabolism even further since it is harder to recover from these bouts as we get older and older. We all are aging people...no exemptions!
However, it's never hopeless because anyone can increase and repair their metabolism with safe natural methods and a few safe vitamins and supplements. Most people get an immediate boost in their metabolic rate when they start the Accelerator Program. The pre cleanse I suggest in the beginning is very important. If you have eaten a ton of toxic foods and did not cleanse your liver and digestive tract, your body is clogged and the cells will be hard to revitalize. The cells are where we get energy from. We need optimum energy in order to perform best when training. If we do not get the vital nutrients, we will lack the energy needed to deal with the stress of exercise and our systems will not react the same. It is all tied together.
However, you need to understand that results will take time and will not be extreme. You can opt for those programs, but they will backfire and you will have wasted your money and time once again. They are not going to come overnight, although the urgency is to get there. If you have something specific you are targeting like an event, plan at least 12 weeks ahead. To lose 15-24 lbs I suggest 12 weeks minimum for 30-48lbs, you can count on 24 weeks. This is realistic, doable and the body will progress the way it should without more damage to the metabolism.
Within 3 weeks of starting the program, your metabolism will be more efficient and within 6 to 8 weeks it will be burning hot. After 12 weeks of consistent effort, following the strategies I teach you, your metabolism will become a turbo charged and your results will happen. Most wind up looking and feeling the best they ever have.
The basics for boosting your metabolism is consistency with these guidelines below. You need to apply a fat burning meal and exercise plan daily! And you do get cheat meals. I was looking at websites and information online and found key things that most expert agree will help the metabolism along:
This includes:
- Meal Frequency: eat 5 to 6 small meals every day.
- Meal Timing: eat about every 3 hours, with a big breakfast and substantial post-workout meal.
- Adequate Caloric Intake: maintain a small calorie deficit and avoid starvation (safe levels for fat loss: 2100 to 2500 calories a day for men, 1400 to 1800 calories a day for women; adjustable as needed) are the most optimal calorie levels to repair metabolic damage. I use a zig zagged or calorie rotational approach to eating. This varies per person and is based on their activity levels.
- Food Selection: Choose natural and unprocessed foods that have a high thermic effect. Food such as lean proteins - chicken, turkey, egg whites and fish - are highly thermic, as are all green vegetables and other fibrous carbs.
- Cardio Training: Raise your cardio intensity if you want to get a metabolic boost. Walking and low intensity cardio is OK, but higher intensity has a much better metabolism-stimulating effect and helps to repair metabolic damage.
- Weight Training: The best exercises are ones that work the largest muscle groups and work the entire body. These include: all types of squats (fron and split), deadlifts, overhead presses, all kinds of rows and core exercises. These complex movements have a much greater metabolism stimulating effect than isolation exercises such as concentration curls or calf raises, for example.
The weight training compenent is very important and is mandatory with the Accelerator Program. If you really are a beginner with weights, I suggest you start with synergystics, which is resistance training without weights through yoga, pilates, bands and a variety of balls.
"Men usually don't have a problem with weight training, but I still hear many women say they don't like lifting weights as part of their fat loss program. Well, all I can say is that those who don't lift weights can expect to have a very long road to metabolic recovery", says Tom Venuto, who created his own Burn the Fat program.
Repair Metabolic Damage - Consistency Is The Key
Nothing undermines the process of re-building your metabolism like inconsistency. If you stop and start, skip meals and workouts often, you won't even get the ball rolling.
There are ways to get your metabolism revving and keep you not only burning hot, but looking hot through all decades of your life. You cannot do this if you miss meals, go on extreme programs that have you taking things that create a look for you that you can not maintain without. You need to make your meals, not a weight loss company! Your workouts need to be consistent and varied in intensity. Not everyday should be a hard charging day or your body adapts and you will have trouble getting results.
All of this takes a mental commitment to your long term health and well being. The show in life must go on...the limelight on stage is not as bright as it looks. Be wise about who you work with and educate yourself about the business of nutrition. Most supplements are really inconclusive, not FDA approved and are going to cause damage to either your liver, kidney, heart or adrenals. You should be supervised by a doctor if you really are not seeing results and your health is at risk from being overweight. If you do want to the limelight of having a great body, I highly suggestion that you do it with integrity and don't let anyone convince you otherwise!
Note from Michelle: If you're interested in taking off fat and repairing metabolic damage in a healthy and sensible way, while keeping all your muscle and increasing your metabolism, then my Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle Accelerator program can teach you how. There's no gimmicks or false promises, just the plain truth - you have to work at it and be patient!
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If you are not seeing results after making a lot of effort, you may suffer from Metabolic Damage. This can be caused by supplements (especially fat burners), extreme or fad diets and over training.
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