Understanding The Science Behind Weight Loss Programs

By Dane C. Fletcher

Fat loss programs must always be based on credible scientific facts. One such fact is referred to as the general law governing calorie balance in the body. Your venture to loose body fats must at all times remain in the full face of basic scientific evidence, if it will by any means achieve positive results.

A good example of times when fat loss ventures are misguided is the tired old school maxim of low carb diets that notoriously disputed the essence of calorie balance equations and insisted that low carbs facilitate a metabolic advantage biased towards fat loss. Low or high carb sources are ultimately translated into calories in the body. It is the amount of calories that matter not the source. So if you decide to eat an X amount of low carbs, optimally measured in grams, or you even eat less, and then use this popular old school myth as a justification of eating as much of the low carbs as you would like, you will get fat not lean.

To put it in practical terms, if you expend a caloric level of about 2000 calories in the course of one day through physical activity, and then you go on and eat 3000 calories within the same day, you will get so fat that you will cry. But if you do the opposite (eat 2,000 calories and expend 3000 calories), then your fat loss campaign is bound to succeed and soon. This measurement of calories does not differentiate from low or high carb sources. All calories eaten in a day are factored in, in terms of amount irrespective of the source. In fact, the total amount of calories is calculated from the carbs, the protein and the fats. Even if you quit eating carbs all the same, your proteins and fats can get you fat if they total to a caloric quotient higher than the one expended in the same day.

Basically, it is generally harder for one to consume excess calories in form of proteins than it is to consume them in fats, sugars and carbs. Fats especially figure three calories for each gram and can multiply your caloric intake to out of proportion levels. The best strategy to loose fat is actually in limiting the amount of calories ingested and then complimenting this with an intensification of physical activity. The proteins and minimal fats should be juxtaposed with manageable levels of low carbs. The minimal calories thus accumulated must be surpassed by the amount of calories burnt to fuel physical activities by the body builder.

Starvation diets will never be the easy way out of body fats. Rather, an active lifestyle, such as that of a body builder, helps burn the calories eaten in the diet and some more. Even better, it is easier to maintain an exercise routine with a suitable diet than it is to starve perpetually. In the long run, one succumbs to the desire and only exercises can burn these extra calories.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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