Safe fat loss vs. toxic fat loss

Rapid weight loss can cause rapid aging. If you do it right, there are a few things you can do that will ensure your efforts will yield the results you’re after…

Guard against muscle loss. Often times rapid weight loss results in a reduction in size and not so much the fat. When we have a sudden drop in calories and we carry this new calorie schedule out long enough, our body will accommodate this by burning off muscle to adjust to this low level of calories.

This slows down our metabolism and is simply our body’s survival mechanism that works with us in famine conditions, to extend our life until we can find food. Remember, our vital organs are made up of highly metabolically active tissues and can lose their strength as well. 

This is how improper weight loss will result in aging a person. Physical and organ strength drop off due to a loss of protein when your body slows your metabolism down during extended crash diets.

Our muscle (protein parts of the body) is highly metabolically active tissue and burns a lot of energy, so a large part of the health of our metabolism depends on our retention or our gain of muscle. When we build muscle and tone, we build our body’s capability of burning calories faster! And when we build muscle, we gain good shape instead of the droop. 

This is why many are disappointed with rapid weight loss results: when they see that 130 pounds (or whatever the goal weight was) simply doesn’t look like it used to. Many younger people are very active and along with that activity comes muscle tone. When we lose weight without activity, we have the weight loss without muscle tone.

Guard your body from fat cell toxicity. We come in contact with a lot of toxins, whether environmental, (household cleaners, air refreshers, smoke etc.) or toxins in our food supply, water and medications. When our body recognizes a toxin, it protects the rest of the body from it with mucous or putting it in fat. And when we lose weight rapidly without an antioxidant rich diet, plenty of water and plenty of sweat, we can have very concentrated toxic leftovers. 

This can make us look sickly, even though we’re thin. These toxins go on to create a “rusting” of sorts to our body parts, that if not stopped can grow to a diagnosable and nameable disease. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables throughout the weight loss period and beyond will help flush these toxins from your body along with plenty of sweat and water for elimination. 

You were designed with natural mechanisms for weight loss, health and vibrancy that no man-made fat burner, supplement or medication can match.