ProFactorX is all about you taking charge of your life, but the financial aspect of life isn't the only avenue that we can help guide you through. XRegimen is designed to help you be the best health you can be. Our diet plays a huge role in how we feel, the energy we have, and how we percieve ourselves.
The word diet has been misconstrued and portrayed as a bad word. We want to redefine what it takes to live a healthy life. The purpose of XRegimen is to educate you a little on how foods can affect our bodies and how we can take advantage of that knowledge. We are not here to tell you what will and won't work for you. We can only tell you what we have seen work for others and offer suggestions on what changes you might consider to achieve your goals and dreams. We are not doctors or scientists so please be sure to consult your physician before beginning any new diet or meal plan.
You may be thinking, I have tried diets and exercise programs before and they didn't help. I didn't see the results. Here is what we have found. Have you ever watched the show "The Biggest Loser"? If not, it is a competition for the most weight lost. Now in those shows do you notice how much weight those people lose? We are talking tens, often times hundreds of pounds. How? Do you think it's the coaches that scream in their ears? Okay yes, having consistent motivation is necessary, however, we are talking about the biological side of weight loss. The answer is how much those contestants are breathing. Do you notice how hard they are breathing? Every workout has them completely winded. It's not just because they are severely overweight. That heavy breathing is the answer. How often did your previous workouts leave you completely winded? Let's look at the science behind it.
Scientists from Queensland University questioned what happens in our bodies when we lose weight. Since matter can neither be created nor destroyed, they wondered where the extra-cellular mass was being taken. Together with a Professor Brown from the University of Wales, they began to study the path of fat cells once they are burned off. The results were something other than that which most doctors would claim. To demonstrate, a survey gathered different “professional” opinions of what became of the mass burned during weight loss. We often take the advice from our doctors, dietitians and personal trainers as scientific/medical absolutes. However, almost sixty percent of each of these professional opinions claimed that weight lost through exercise is converted to energy and heat. Surprisingly, less than ten percent of just the dietitians understood that fat is not converted to energy or to muscle, rather, fat is exhaled when we breathe.
When we inhale oxygen, the triglyceride fats in our bodies are broken down into CO2 and H2O. CO2 is exhaled when we breathe, H2O is removed from the body in any way that can be used: exhaling, sweat, urine, etc. Throughout the day we “burn” only a certain amount of fat as we breathe. As we exercise regularly, that amount increases. However, the amount of fat lost each day is so minimal that anything as insignificant as snacking once a day on an unhealthy food, despite any and all exercise, will result in our bodies having taken in more fat than we are exhaling. This underlines the importance of not just exercising, but also healthy eating. This ratio of weight loss to food consumption is so close, that not just unhealthy eating but overeating of even healthy foods can be the result of weight loss stagnation.
Long periods of laborious breathing will activate the fat burning process. While exercise builds muscle, if said exercise is not causing shortness of breath it is not helping burn fat. Thus why those who spend leisure amounts of time on a bicycle machine or walking at comfortable paces may not see the desired results.
Now intensive workouts aren't the only part of this process. The food we eat has a large impact on fat loss as well. As mentioned above, the foods we choose can very easily negate any exercise that we have done if the fat and sugar content out-weigh the amount of fat lost. This is why many personal trainers strongly suggest counting calories.
Take a look at your day to day habits. Say you have a well paying job but it has you sitting at a desk for hours on end, you may have a harder time being active than someone who spends their day on their feet running errands. We can look at these individuals and feel a little envious and think, they just have a high metabolism. Yes they do, but it wasn't something that they were gifted genetically on a silver platter, it is a cause of their life circumstances. You earned your desk job through diligence and dedication, they earned their metabolism the same way.
Exercise is a large portion to achieving the health goals that you want but it isn't the only rung in the ladder. There are things that you can do in your free time that can drastically boost your metabolism and accelerate the rate that you will lose weight. There are three main metabolic processes that occur in our bodies that affect our ability to control and maintain weight loss. We may stagnate our metabolism by misinterpreting or misusing these processes.
One process is the production of:
Ghrel·in
Noun
a hormone produced by enteroendocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the stomach, often called a "hunger hormone" because it increases food intake, blood levels of ghrelin are highest before meals when hungry, returning to lower levels after mealtimes.
Our bodies are l
One process is the production of:
Ghrel·in
Noun
a hormone produced by enteroendocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the stomach, often called a "hunger hormone" because it increases food intake, blood levels of ghrelin are highest before meals when hungry, returning to lower levels after mealtimes.
Our bodies are like a furnace. For thousands of years we have misinterpreted what our bodies are telling us when we hear the growlin’ of our stomachs. We have thought it means “feed me”, when what it’s been simply saying is “I’m grillin”.
Another factor in metabolic progression is a process of recovery called:
Au·toph·a·gy
/ôˈtäfəjē/
Noun
the consumption of the body’s own tissue as a metabolic process
Autophagy is an untapped burner in our body that naturally breaks down fats and toxins. When you’re camping, why don’t you build a bonfire so your food will cook faster? Eatin
Another factor in metabolic progression is a process of recovery called:
Au·toph·a·gy
/ôˈtäfəjē/
Noun
the consumption of the body’s own tissue as a metabolic process
Autophagy is an untapped burner in our body that naturally breaks down fats and toxins. When you’re camping, why don’t you build a bonfire so your food will cook faster? Eating is like putting a bunch of fuel on the fire in your body when what you want to burn is the existing fuel. So, just like when you’re burning the campfire down to coals, your body needs time to burn your fat stores down to the high intensity burning ability like coals. Two things that burn the existing fuel are oxygen and time. Until you are at an optimal weight, your metabolism requires at least 24 hours of oxygen and rest to be ready to burn optimally.
“If your fridge is full of food, don’t go out and buy more food.”
Lastly, if too much physical stasis occurs, autophagy may cause:
At·ro·phy
/ˈatrəfē/
Noun
(of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells,
The difference between autophagy and atrophy is: atrophy burns muscle, autophagy burns fat. Atrophy is the disuse of a muscle, authophagy is the disuse of your
Lastly, if too much physical stasis occurs, autophagy may cause:
At·ro·phy
/ˈatrəfē/
Noun
(of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells,
The difference between autophagy and atrophy is: atrophy burns muscle, autophagy burns fat. Atrophy is the disuse of a muscle, authophagy is the disuse of your ghrelin. If you stop feeding your ghrelin, it simply starts burning up those fat cells. So..
“when you feel the growlin’ of your ghrelin, let it keep grillin’!”
So to prevent the atrophy while resting your metabolism, be sure and flex your muscles, especially the ones in and around your abdomen, as you feel the ghrelin, or what is falsely called “hunger pangs”. If you are sitting, get up and get moving. (see online activity chart)
Getting Started:
The Process
Plan Ahead
Have you ever gone grocery shopping hungry and got home with one (or more) of everything?
Stay Busy
Step two is the MOST IMPORTANT -- Stay Busy and ELIMINATE ALL SNACKS (even the healthy ones). The busier you keep your mind and body, especially your hands, the less you will want to eat. As you do things that interest and occupy you, you will FORGET to snack.
Give Your Metabolism a Rest
The culture of eating three meals a day was instigated years ago by the food industry to promote their fiscal agendas. Instead of eating throughout the day, allow your metabolism to “rest” by eating only twice per day, morning and evening. Drink ample amounts of water, but restrict the majority of it during those meals. Try to avoid snacking during the day as much as possible. Eating nutritious and filling meals will help get you through the times in between meals. Don’t overeat, and drink the majority of your water after you’ve eaten. Drink water as needed throughout the day but don't over-hydrate as it may “douse” the burning of calories. Take a multivitamin after your meal to prevent nutritional deficiencies.
Find the Right Support
The world is full of critics that want to shame and discourage that which they see as difficult, unusual or improbable. Sadly, some of these critics are closer than we think. Oftentimes, those with whom we share our goals may give us grief and discouragement rather than support and enthusiasm. Be wise in whom you confide your goals, at least at first. Remember, you’ve started a new health regimen, you’re not on a diet. Once the results start showing, the critics will become more believing.
Your immediate family doesn’t have to participate, but they can support you by not eating around you and understanding if you eat a different dinner, go to bed early, etc. Most especially, make a plan of what you will do to occupy yourself during the meals your family is eating without you. The more interesting and distracting the better. Refer to the list of suggested activities online.
Manage Your Time
Avoid excessive downtime during the day. Downtime is when your body will try to remind you that you haven’t eaten and will heighten the desire to snack.
Make a Few Exceptions
If you are invited to eat out for lunch, ask for a raincheck for a dinnertime, but if you can’t, use these times as your break times. Unless you’re sure they’ll encourage you, don’t mention to others that you are doing something new, simply choose healthy foods and take smaller portions, or better yet, order the food, just drink water and take it “to go” and eat it later for dinner or another meal. Just expect to lose a little ground with your weight and pick back up and keep going.
Record and Regenerate
VERY IMPORTANT (as the pounds start dropping):
As you are recording daily, use a firming cream like cocoa butter on all your body to encourage elasticity and reduce excess skin. When you are applying, strengthen the core muscles by pulling your abdomen in and tightening your arm and leg muscles. MOST IMPORTANTLY, every time throughout the day if you feel hunger pangs, use them as a reminder to pull in your abdomen to encourage interior elasticity and muscle toning as your body slims down.
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