3 Simple Things You Can Do Each Day to Increase Fat Loss
It’s not about calories in vs. calories out.
Fat loss is all about balancing calories in vs calories out, right?
Actually, no. While a great idea in theory, body fat percentage is about so much more than simply how many calories you eat. It depends on the quality of the calories, how often you’re eating, whether you’re snacking, how much sleep you get, your genetics, how you move your body, and many many other factors.
Jonathan Bailor, the author of The Calorie Myth, explains,
“Eating less does not create the need to burn body fat. Instead, it creates the need for the body to slow down. Contrary to popular opinion, the body hangs on to body fat. Instead, it burns muscle tissue, and that worsens the underlying cause of obesity. Only as a last resort, if the body has no other option, it may also burn a bit of body fat… What does metabolism want more of when it thinks you are starving? Stored energy. What is a great source of stored energy? Body fat. So when your metabolism thinks you are starving, does it want to get rid of or hold on to body fat? It wants to hold on.”
So if we’re not restricting our calories, what can we do instead?
