Metabolic Shock: Has This Happened To You?




Metabolic crash is a very common thing that happens to anyone trying to lose weight, including fitness competitors. It happens so often that it has become the norm and is even accepted within the fitness industry. The truth is that it is not acceptable, coaches “gurus” and “experts” are ruining people’s lives and health for a trophy or a competition, or to lose a few kilos. Anyone can lose weight, but are you doing it in a healthy way? Are you endangering your health? Find out if this has happened or is happening to you, and how you can fix it and reverse its effects.

At some point, it has become the norm to diet in a certain way. It’s simple, eat fewer calories than you are burning and you will lose weight. This is true, however any good coach will know that there are many other important factors besides the number of calories in vs. the amount of calories consumed. Your metabolic health is extremely important, especially for fat loss, I mean, why wouldn’t you want to burn more fat without starving yourself and abusing cardio? Basically that’s exactly what is happening, people are falling into this vicious cycle of losing a few pounds on a low calorie diet while doing 2 hours of cardio a day. Now to explain it further. Let’s say these bikini-clad girls are eating a low calorie diet (1000 calories or so) and doing 2 hours of cardio a day and exercising. Between 2 hours of cardio and training you are surely burning over 1000 calories, and at first you may see a drop in body weight, and then you will stagnate. What is the first thing they would do? Lose more calories and do more cardio, and again now you’re eating 800 calories a day and doing 2.5 hours of cardio, then for a week you lose weight and then stabilize again. Do you see the trend here? you’re kicking your metabolism straight to the ground. If you are on such a low calorie diet and you are expending so many calories, there is no reason why you are not reducing body fat unless you have altered your metabolism.

Now, on the other hand, why not work your metabolism to your advantage? Why not let your metabolism do the fat burning for you? Your BMR determines the number of calories you burn while resting, the healthier your metabolism, the more calories you burn while resting. So why not use that to your advantage? Read that sentence a few more times for her to take in!

Here is a method to use. First of all, start your diet much earlier, DO NOT go on a crash course diet, like anything else in life, if you go too fast you will collapse. Like landing a plane or driving a car, the slower you go, the safer you will be. By adding a few more weeks to your diet, you allow yourself to consume more carbohydrates to start with and gradually reduce them as needed. I generally recommend cutting down on carbs on a weekly basis if necessary. If you’re burning body fat, you don’t need to keep reducing it or dropping it dramatically. Let your metabolism work for you, the more intense your training sessions are, the more intense your cardio, the higher your BMW, which means that you will burn more calories at rest. It is such a simple formula, if you have a healthy BMR of 1500 calories a day and do an intense session of 20-30 minutes of HIIT, your caloric output only from rest and a short session of cardio is 2000 calories +. Now if you run your BMR on the floor at 300 calories. You would have to do 3-4 times the amount of cardio just to make up for the difference in your metabolism. Wow, did you understand that when you’re starving and doing cardio like crazy, you sure burn more calories in the gym, but outside of the gym you’re spending significantly less? Now tell me again why you paid your trainer a large sum of money to waste time in the gym, make you feel like crap, damage your metabolism and your health.

The best part is that after a competition or a wedding, you will not regain a large amount of weight when you start eating normally again if you did it the right way. This is because your metabolism is still revved up and even when you start eating normally your body still burns a lot more calories than the metabolically impaired guy or girl, hence no competition blues or rebounding. .

If you’re feeling tired, sluggish, or at the point where you’re doing 3 hours of cardio a day and literally eating nothing, my advice is to stop! No show, trophy, prize or prize is worth your health. If this has happened to you, you can reverse it by gradually adding carbohydrates to your diet. Don’t overload yourself, instead add carbs slowly weekly so maybe 10-20g more carbs each week.

My last tip is to keep an open mind and question everything in life. Just because a coach has a good track record and his clients win a lot of programs does not mean that he is a good coach or even a coach that he should work with. Put your health first, that’s what a coach does, and that’s the difference between a coach and a coach. A coach cares about you, your health, and your well-being, while a coach just wants you to lose weight or win a show at any cost to your health.

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