] Why we Get Fat

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Why we Get Fat

When you eat something,one of three things happens to it: it is burned

as fuel,it is discarded as waste or it is stored as fat. Metabolism is

the rate at which your body converts the foods you eat into energy for

your body.If you have a fast metabolism,more of the foods you eat will

get burned up as energy and less will stored as fat.If

you have a slow metabolism,less of the food you eat gets burned for fuel

and more gets stored as fat.

One of the most significant causes of a slow metabolism is a reduce

calorie or " starvation " diet.That is why nearly every single person who

goes on a diet eventually fails and gains  back all the weight they

have

lost and usually more.

When you go on a reduce calorie diet your body doesn't know that your

dieting.It thinks you're starving to death.it say ti itself " I don't know

when I will eat again,so I'd better store al the food I eat,instead of

burning it as fuel,so I won't die of starvation.There is ONLY one way

your body can store food for later it as FAT.SO EVEN IF YOU ARE EATING

LESS FOOD,YOUR BODY STORES MORE OF IT AS FAT. That means ,even though

you are eating less,you may still gain weight.and the bigger problem is

this,when you go off the diet which you will do because you can't starve

yourself forever your metabolism will be

so slow that eating " regular " food again will cause you to gan not only

the weight you lost on the diet but more !

The other thing that happens when you go on a conventional diet is that

your body starts to shed lean muscle tissue.Thats bad if you are trying

to lose weight because muscle tissue is the only thing that burns

calories in your body.The more lean muscle tissue you have the more

calories you burn all day long.Conversely,if you go on a low calorie

diet and start to lose muscle tissue,you lose the WAR of FAT. So...if

you are doing Weight Watchers you should EAT ALL your points so you r

body WILL NOT  think it is starving.Can you understand this?

                

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