If Not Now, When?

THIS ISSUE: One Of The Best Ways I Know To Lose Body Fat

Table of Contents:

1) Editor's Note
2) Food for Thought
3) Feature Article: One Of The Best Ways I Know To Lose Body Fat
4) Teleclasses
5) Question & Answer
6) Our Services

Editor's Note

Hi,

For most of us, summer has pretty much started. Here in the desert southwest we have finally had a 100+ degree day. That's pretty unusual for us. By the beginning of June we would normally have had at least several 100+ days by now. No complaining though. The hot weather will come soon enough.

This is a favorite time of year for my wife and I. Starting in mid May, there are several arts and craft shows up in Prescott each month through September. We have gone to two already, and there's another one in two weeks. It's not just the fairs that we like. Going up to Prescott is a treat in itself. The area is really beautiful with all the pine forests surrounding a very nice town in the mountains.

Over the past month, I have been researching several different diet and exercise programs that have become popular recently. Two of them are definitely designed more for the “younger” set. The diet sections are OK, but the exercise portions are brutal for us mature individuals. Even those who may be in reasonably good shape. The two “tough” programs I'm referring to are P90X, and Extreme Fat Loss Diet. You can find plenty of information on each of them by doing a search, but as I said, I don't recommend them for baby boomers and beyond. I'm still researching another one. I'll let you know more about it soon.

This month my main article deals with eating more often to lose fat and/or weight. I hope you enjoy it.

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Good luck, keep exercising, and remember – "If not now, when?".

Best Wishes,

Tom Manfredi


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Food for Thought

Feature Article - One Of The Best Ways I Know To Lose Body Fat

When you're dieting, how often do you eat each day? Once? Twice? Three times? I know many people, when dieting, will skip breakfast, eat a very small lunch, and then have dinner. Eating a lower amount of calories each day won't necessarily help you to lose weight.

You may ask - Why won't eating fewer calories in a day help me lose weight? There are two reasons that usually come into play when we try to lose weight by reducing our daily caloric intake. One, by reducing our caloric intake, we are signaling our bodies that we may be going into a starvation mode. In this case, your body will try to protect you by storing more of the calories as fat for later use. Second, when you reduce your daily caloric intake, you are setting yourself up for failure. If you don't take in enough calories, you may not have enough energy to perform you daily activities. Also, dramatically reducing your calorie intake will make you feel constantly hungry, and you will only be able to deal with this deprivation for a short time before you revert to your “old ways”.

Believe it or not, eating more frequently than three times a day may help you to lose more body fat and weight. Now, before you go off gorging yourself on five, six, or more meals a day, be forewarned that this doesn't work for everyone. Sorry about that.

When doesn't it work? If your physical activity levels are low or non-existent, eating more frequently may increase you daily caloric intake with no outlet for burning it off. The cold, hard truth is that you have to set up a calorie deficit (more calories out than in) in order to lose weight. Basically, you have to burn 3,500 extra calories in order to lose one pound.

Now you may be confused. I just said in the previous paragraph that eating more often may help you lose more body fat and/or weight. That's true, it can. But (don't you hate that word?), it depends on several factors. If you eat more often, you still have to come up with a calorie deficit. The best way to do that is to start exercising, or exercise more.

Here are some of the benefits of eating more often that can help you lose weight: