HEALTHY EATING
Commercial diets are businesses, more concerned with losing your money than losing weight. They don’t monitor what you lose, be it fat, lean muscle tissue or water, as long as you lose weight: by starving yourself you will lose lean muscle mass and not body fat.
It is healthy eating not dieting that is important for weight loss and weight management. Many people still try to crash diet but don't exercise and don't consider what they're eating -they just try to eat less of it, usually finding that any initial weight loss cannot be sustained. Between 95 and 98% of those who diet weigh more one year later. There are several reasons for this. When caloric intake drops much below that needed for normal function, the body tries to compensate by making what it has stored last longer. Specifically it decreases the metabolic rate and increases the body’s ability to store fat. The enzymes utilised to store fat become very active, with any initial weight loss rapidly slowing down. Normal eating or even binge eating is often resumed which leads to increases fat storage because of the active fat – storing enzymes.
Although some fat might be lost in the initial stages of the diet there will also be a decrease in the lean body mass i.e. muscle protein. It has been estimated that up to 25% of weight loss through dieting is due to a decrease in lean body mass. This has a great impact as muscle speeds metabolism and burns calories. With the decrease in muscle mass ones ability to burn calories decreases resulting in a decrease in metabolism and weight loss is difficult to maintain. Further more, once you resume your old eating habits you put back on fat not muscle. Therefore at the end of a diet people often have a higher body fat percentage then when they started.
We are all different and there are many seemingly confusing reports concerning nutrition. It is important to remember it may take a little while to find out what suits you.
NUTRITION ADVICE
initial 2 hour consultation £50.00
including:
• Bodystat® body composition analysis
• blood pressure and heart rate check
• review of health questionnaire
• review of exercise diary
• review of food and drink diary
• 1 month nutrition plan
• supplementation programme (if required)
follow-up nutrition consultation £25.00
including:
• new Bodystat® body composition analysis
• review of nutrition plan
• review of supplementation programme
(if required)
• throughout the program you will recieve
easy-to-understand nutrition information
sheets arming you with the knowledge
needed to achieve your goals.
BodyStat analysis: £10.00
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