The first stage is to increase metabolism. Now metabolism basically relates to how fast your body breaks down food into energy for your muscles. Someone with a fast metabolism is the skinny-rake looking person who eats 50 times a day and still looks like they could do with a few more steak and pumpkin pies.

A slow metabolism on the other hand, relates to someone who eats only a few meals a day, but can't seem to shift any weight. Any extra increase in calories, such as a cheeky McDonalds will certainly lead to a gain in fat.

Why does this matter? Well firstly, increasing your metabolism will allow you to burn more fat at rest. That's right, doing nothing, burning fat. Sounds good right?

Well, most people make the mistake on their diets of, '3 solid meals a day'. I constantly hear people saying, I only eat 3 meals a day and look at the size of me. This is because your poor body has to survive 24hrs (including the time you sleep) when you feed it only 3 times!

These meals tend to be huge meals, which decrease the rate at which your body can break it down (metabolism).

By breaking your meals down into smaller portions, allows you to eat more frequently. What this does, is increase your metabolic rate (aka metabolism) so that it burns through the food faster. Because your body knows it's getting food again in a few hours, it will burn through the current set a lot quicker than if you starve it by feeding it 3 times a day.

I recommend eating 6 or 7 smaller meals throughout the day to send your metabolism into overdrive! This may seem like a chore at first, and even difficult, but you are not reading what I've written. I said eat more MEALS, NOT more FOOD.

The biggest mistake people make in trying to lose weight is not eating. This is not a good idea! By not eating we reduce 'Food into mouth' and therefore decrease weight, right? Yes, and No. Learn more.


Losing weight comes down to some simple math:


Current Weight = Food Into Mouth - Food Burned Off

We need this number to be negative (i.e. we burn off more food than we eat).

Because your body is using more fuel than you are eating, it has to get it from somewhere else, which it takes from your body!


in order to lose weight, we need our caloric intake to be negative. There are 2 ways to do this:

1. Increase food burned off (i.e. exercise)
2. Decrease food into mouth (aka what most people call a 'diet')

The biggest mistake people make in trying to lose weight is not eating. This is not a good idea!

By not eating we reduce 'Food into mouth' and therefore decrease weight, right?

Yes, and no.

The weight you lose first is water, which is why people often find they lose pounds easily early on in a diet, after which they struggle to shift the pounds.

Not eating also puts your body into starvation mode, in which it stores fat. Read that again. Stores fat. This is not what we want. The reason it does this is because fat holds more calories per gram than carbs or protein, so the body holds onto it, knowing if we are reduced to starvation, it will 'eat' off the easy stuff first (carbs and protein, 4 calories per gram) and leave the fat till last (9 calories per gram).

So, we can't not eat, but what can we eat?
We will continue this guide on Part 2.


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