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Authors: Chris Powell
Tags: SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss, Health & Fitness / Exercise
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soda, and glazed donuts, but not all carbs deserve a bad rap.) Carbs are, first and foremost, the main food for your cells. But they’re also the switch that calibrates your body’s metabolic thermostat, playing a significant role in controlling how fast your metabolism burns calories. When carbs come your way, they stimulate your body to release special hormones that are essential in managing your metabolism. Eating more carbs sends more of these hormones into your system, and the hormones launch your metabolic rate sky-high. Eating fewer carbs slows the flow of hormones, suppressing your metabolism. Carbs set your metabolic thermostat to “hot.” The trick is eating the right amount of them, at the right time, and we’ll get to that in a bit. Moral of the story: Eat more carbs and eat them more often!
RULE 2: DEVELOP SHAPELY MUSCLES.
If you develop your muscles, your body’s maintenance and movement functions get stronger. Pumping up your muscles with weights or other resistance techniques actually breaks them down, so for the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours, your body hammers overtime to repair and remodel them. This takes a
ton
of energy, so guess what? Your metabolism goes through the roof while your body builds shapelier and stronger muscles than ever! Plus, moving your muscles at high intensity for short periods of time creates a metabolic afterburn that lasts for hours after you exercise. If you work out regularly, your body becomes a fat-burning furnace—even when you’re flopped on the couch watching TV. Moral of the story: Shape up your muscles.
RULE 3: MOVE YOUR MUSCLES.
Moving your muscles improves your body’s movement function. Put them in motion, and we’re talking metabolic explosion. When you move your body, your muscles quickly start devouring calories. Your muscle cells scarf down way more energy than any other cells in your body, so when you make them work, your metabolism cranks up to white-hot.The more muscle you have, the more calories it eats, and when your metabolism is burning high to feed your muscles,
all
of your cells—not just your muscle cells—end up using more calories, even while you’re sleeping! Moral of the story: Move your muscles!
Why Cycle Carbs?
By following the three rules, you maximize your metabolism so you can create the calorie deficit you need to strip away your body fat. So where does carb cycling fit in? Simple: It takes your metabolism even farther up into the stratosphere!
Cycling your carbs—eating a lot every other day and very few on the days in between—is so effective at intensifying weight loss while maintaining fat-burning muscle that most bodybuilders and fitness models have been carb cycling for decades. Using this method with many of my clients over the years, I’ve taken what I’ve learned from their experiences and have developed my own system. It not only supercharges weight loss for all kinds of folks, it also fits into almost anyone’s hectic everyday life. Plus, I’ve built in one to three days a week when you get to reward yourself with the decadent foods you love. And sometimes you get to eat tons of carbs for
a whole week
!
Of course, you can drop pounds on any diet that creates a calorie deficit, when you take in fewer calories than you use up. But many weight-loss regimens leave you feeling deprived by banning a lot of foods—most often, the delicious ones. Some diets, especially low-carb ones, actually
crash
your metabolism, slowing it way down and actually decelerating weight loss. Diet deprivation and metabolic crashing often lead to
rebounding
after you finish a diet, when you regain the weight you lost. Even more troubling, eliminating carbs from your diet can cause long-term damage to your hormonal system.
Carb cycling heads off the problems caused by other kinds of diets, but it still lets you lose weight rapidly. And unlike so many other weight-loss plans, carb cycling is effective in both the short and long term!
RULE 2: DEVELOP SHAPELY MUSCLES.
If you develop your muscles, your body’s maintenance and movement functions get stronger. Pumping up your muscles with weights or other resistance techniques actually breaks them down, so for the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours, your body hammers overtime to repair and remodel them. This takes a
ton
of energy, so guess what? Your metabolism goes through the roof while your body builds shapelier and stronger muscles than ever! Plus, moving your muscles at high intensity for short periods of time creates a metabolic afterburn that lasts for hours after you exercise. If you work out regularly, your body becomes a fat-burning furnace—even when you’re flopped on the couch watching TV. Moral of the story: Shape up your muscles.
RULE 3: MOVE YOUR MUSCLES.
Moving your muscles improves your body’s movement function. Put them in motion, and we’re talking metabolic explosion. When you move your body, your muscles quickly start devouring calories. Your muscle cells scarf down way more energy than any other cells in your body, so when you make them work, your metabolism cranks up to white-hot.The more muscle you have, the more calories it eats, and when your metabolism is burning high to feed your muscles,
all
of your cells—not just your muscle cells—end up using more calories, even while you’re sleeping! Moral of the story: Move your muscles!
Why Cycle Carbs?
By following the three rules, you maximize your metabolism so you can create the calorie deficit you need to strip away your body fat. So where does carb cycling fit in? Simple: It takes your metabolism even farther up into the stratosphere!
Cycling your carbs—eating a lot every other day and very few on the days in between—is so effective at intensifying weight loss while maintaining fat-burning muscle that most bodybuilders and fitness models have been carb cycling for decades. Using this method with many of my clients over the years, I’ve taken what I’ve learned from their experiences and have developed my own system. It not only supercharges weight loss for all kinds of folks, it also fits into almost anyone’s hectic everyday life. Plus, I’ve built in one to three days a week when you get to reward yourself with the decadent foods you love. And sometimes you get to eat tons of carbs for
a whole week
!
Of course, you can drop pounds on any diet that creates a calorie deficit, when you take in fewer calories than you use up. But many weight-loss regimens leave you feeling deprived by banning a lot of foods—most often, the delicious ones. Some diets, especially low-carb ones, actually
crash
your metabolism, slowing it way down and actually decelerating weight loss. Diet deprivation and metabolic crashing often lead to
rebounding
after you finish a diet, when you regain the weight you lost. Even more troubling, eliminating carbs from your diet can cause long-term damage to your hormonal system.
Carb cycling heads off the problems caused by other kinds of diets, but it still lets you lose weight rapidly. And unlike so many other weight-loss plans, carb cycling is effective in both the short and long term!
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