Your Metabolism 2009

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Starvation Response When you go on a diet, your brain misreads the lack of food as a life threatening time of famine and slows the rate at which your body burns fuel for energy When you crash diet or cut calories drastically to lose weight, you are temporarily slowing down your metabolism How it impacts your Metabolism

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Alters Body Composition The objective is to maintain muscle mass while losing fat & most diets fail at this Muscle burns calories The more fat you carry the fewer calories your body burns. It is easier to gain or regain weight in the form of body fat. MUSCLE DICTATES METABOLISM! How it impacts your Metabolism

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Carbohydrate Sensitivity People who have done low-carbohydrate and high protein become carbohydrate sensitive: hence the body’s insulin response becomes ineffective due to prolonged low-carbohydrate dieting Blood sugar levels rise too quickly, and as a result your body doesn't respond to insulin Then the excess carbohydrates are stored as fat and your body fat % increases How it impacts your Metabolism