Metabolism Talk

I was talking to a client the other day, and she asked about the metabolism.

I pointed out that I believe it would be much better to increase the metabolism a month or so before starting any new diet.

The reason is because a diet low in calories will inevitably lead to a decrease in lean muscle, which in turn causes a lower metabolic rate.

Exercising before a low calorie diet helps raise lean mass as there will be sufficient calorie intake to enable anabolic processes to occur. This means you would be burning many more calories just to maintain normal weight. At this stage she would be able to reduce food intake a little but get some good results quickly. Plus, she will have much more room to decrease intake further once she hits a plateau in weight loss.

Continuous weight loss requires the ability to adjust diet / exercise at regular intervals, if a person drops calories too low then they would have no room to adjust when the body adapts to the intake.
A higher metabolism gives the ability to adjust without starving oneself!

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