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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!