Why Your Body Resists Weightloss and Fatloss
According to Wendy "your body is a machine that was designed to survive and it's survival depends on how efficient it is at taking care of all it's tasks with the only fuel source it has coming in: the food you eat. When you start restricting calories or carbs on a diet it kicks into survival mode and tries it's best at calculating how it might run better by hording as many calories as it can i.e. shutting down functions such as metabolism to stop expending too much energy." Wendy explains that this is called the adaptation response (also known as the weightloss plateau or diet plateau) and as frustrating as it is, it can be controlled with smart eating strategies. Here's one super effective fatloss tip from her book to get you started.
This is one of the most important principles that Crack The Fatloss Code teaches readers. Wendy explains that "macro-patterning - carefully regulating your protein carb and fat intake as well as alternating it - combats the body's adaptive response so that it never knows what hit it. Macro-patterning allows us to manipulate glycogen levels to create an energy deficit without the body knowing it and responding with the adaptive response." So your body can burn fat and lose weight without the frustrating diet plateau!
How To Manipulate Energy Stores
The basic idea is to take two days each week to lower glycogen levels just enough for your body to tap into the fat stores and start using that as fuel. When you do this weekly for long periods of time you train your body to become efficient at using stored fat. So not only are you tricking your body to use stored fat but you're also training it to burn fat for energy all the time. This is a diet trick that athletes and bodybuilders have used forever to get seriously lean and fit before competitions.
Wendy book goes into great detail about how to do this for 8 weeks. Her book takes you through 4 cycles; carb deplete, macro-patterning, accelerated fatloss, and maintenance. You eat different quantities of carbs, protein, and fat during each cycle and she even allows cheat days and high carb days. Imagine being able to eat the foods you like and using those foods to shed fat. The best part of Wendy's book is that you get sample meal plans for each and every cycle along with shopping lists and recipes that make the transition super easy.
Learn how to eat carbs to burn more fat faster and forever with Wendy's simple 8 week plan found in her second book Conquer the Fat-Loss Code (Includes: Complete Success Planner, All-New Delicious Recipes, and the Secret to Exercising Less for Better Results!)
