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What if I told you that you could use pizza (or any other food that you absolutely
love that “diets” just don’t let you have) to reverse the negative adaptations of
dieting, skyrocket leptin levels, and send your body right back in to the fat
burning zone in as little as 24 hours.
It’s all true.
I know, tears of joy. In fact, I can remember
the first time I read those 307 research
papers on the regulation of human
bodyweight and metabolism all pointing to
pizza for fat loss. I cried all night…and then
ordered Papa John’s at 2am. It was
awesome.
To summarize: while it takes about 7 days
for leptin to decline significantly, it only
takes one day of overfeeding or “cheating”
to bring leptin levels back up to normal and
put your body back in to the fat burning
zone.
And that glorious day is what I have frequently referred to in my previous writings
as the Cheat Day.
Now, in order to make cheat days work for optimal fat loss every other day of the
diet needs to be strategically set up to optimize the fat loss results of that day,
but the fact remains, if you’re dieting 7 days a week, week after week, you’re
screwed.
That approach yields several possible outcomes, none of which are desirable.
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If you truly want to lose fat consistently, week after week, you need to have
higher calorie days built in to your program.
And you know what? 1,000 calories of pizza works better than 1,000 calories of
oatmeal.
(Apparently there are lame people who, when instructed to “go off their diet”,
respond by eating more oatmeal. I know, I know…me either…but it’s true.)
So, why does something like pizza work better? Well, the answer, as usual, is
research derived!
Hey, I’m a research junkie, which means as long as you continue to stick by my
side you’ll never have to read that boring crap yourself.
Anyway, the research shows that leptin is highly correlated with another
hormone: insulin. When insulin goes up, so does leptin, and vice versa. Which
foods have the highest insulin response? Those containing both high glycemic
carbohydrate + fat. In fact, the insulin response of these foods is said to be
synergistic (if you don’t know what that means, here’s a good resource:
http://dictionary.com)
So, stuff like Mac & Cheese (I’m not sure why I capitalized that), pizza,
doughnuts, cookies, Reese’s® Peanut Butter Cups, pastries, ice cream and
anything else that combines carbs + fat all work exceptionally well to raise leptin
levels and reset metabolism.
You could of course go with a “cleaner” choice like pasta + cheese (lasagna
anyone?) if you don’t want to eat cookies. I, however, will continue to enjoy my
Double Stuff ®.
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There’s only one thing better than Double Stuff ® Oreos ®.
Quadruple Stuff ™. Yeah, baby. (That’s my trademark, by the way).
Oh, and the other thing that affects leptin levels is body fat levels. That is, higher
body fat levels = higher levels of leptin and lower body fat levels = lower levels of
leptin. This is one of the reasons its easier to lose fat when you have substantial
body fat to lose up front, as opposed to the considerably more difficult feat of
going from lean to super lean.
Either way you look at it, for each pound of fat you lose it becomes increasingly
harder to lose the next pound due to fallen leptin levels. This also contributes to
progressively slower fat loss as you get leaner.
But, wouldn’t it be cool if there was a way to continue to lose fat exceptionally
fast even as you get leaner? Well, there is, but in order to do so it requires a
VERY strategic approach, and some rather extreme methods.
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Fortunately, that’s exactly what I teach in the Xtreme Fat Loss Diet – exactly how
to combine those extreme methods in the most strategic possible sequence to
yield the fastest possible fat loss in order to take you from where you currently
are to the point in which you’re absolutely “shredded”, as they say, without a
single “lull” in your rate of progress.
And have no fear…more coming on that front very soon. Until then…
Sneaky Trick # 2: MASSIVE Calorie Deficits
(That Actually Work)
A pound of fat is 3,500 calories.
So, to lose 10 pounds of pure fat, you need to create a 35,000 calorie deficit.
By the way, she’s only holding 5 lbs of fat.
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(please realize that 10 lbs of fat loss will probably equate to somewhere
between 15 and 20 lbs of actual “weight loss” due to the simultaneous water loss
that occurs any time you lose fat).
So, a 35,000 calorie deficit, huh? That’s easy. In fact, if you didn’t eat anything
for 15 days, combined with exercise, you’d probably burn even more than that
and finish up absolutely shredded after only 2 weeks of sacrifice, right?
WRONG.
Due to the leptin and regulation of body weight and metabolism reasons shared
previously, you’d be wasting a heck of a lot of time and sacrifice for some pretty
crappy results should you choose to go with the above method.
In fact, you’d probably end up looking “sick” and still fat. Way to go…
Creating massive calorie deficits (by not eating) simply do NOT work for optimal
fat loss and physique transformation, and those looking for a quick fix all too
often fall victim to trying something so silly in attempt to wake up next week with
the body of their dreams.
Simply put, you’re body is smarter than these elementary methods, and it will
very quickly put the kibosh on your fat burning efforts in favor of protecting you
from starving to death.
So does that mean that the “slow and steady” road is the only path to fat loss, or
that rapid fat loss is a dead dream?
Nope! It just requires “smarter” methods that keep you one step ahead of your
body, always in “good standing”, instead of repeatedly aggravating it by denying
it the nutrients and energy it needs to function.
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So how can we be smart about rapid fat loss?
Well, there are a number of ways (that when combined in the most strategic
fashion equal super duper killer fat loss results), but one of the pieces of the
puzzle is to create a massive calorie deficit that actually works because it’s timed
appropriately in conjunction with a time in which your body is very receptive to fat
burning.
Hmmmm. When might the body be super primed for fat burning?
I’ll let you think about that for a minute…
(HINT: Reference Sneaky Trick #1)
That’s right! After a day of dietary indulgence! Fact is, after a Cheat Day, your
body is massively primed to burn fat. Leptin levels are at their peak, in addition
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to other important fat burning hormones, and your body is READY and WILLING
to use fat for energy.
So, it’s after a high calorie day that you’ll want to create a massive calorie deficit
via:
1. minimal calorie intake
2. massive energy expenditure through optimized exercise
Essentially, you’re creating a huge calorie deficit on a day in which your body is
extremely primed to burn those calories as fat AND when metabolism is at its
highest point.
Make sense? Good.
Now, you may be wondering, won’t such a massive calorie deficit just throw your
body back into “starvation mode”? Not when you do it appropriately and set it up
in the most strategic way possible.
Two things you’ll need to do:
1. Use effective supplementation practices to protect against muscle loss
while also buying you some time before your body “finds out” that your
calorie intake is so low
2. Utilize what I call the “Triple X” approach to exercise, involving resistance
training and multi-energy system training
Let’s discuss effective exercise strategies a little more in detail now – onward to
sneaky trick #3!
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