| What is the Body for Life Diet
and what are it’s drawbacks and what are its benefits?
The Body for Life diet is the creation of world-renowned
trainer and and founder of the nutritional company,
EAS. The Body for Life plan is an intensive 12 week
program of dieting and exercise that is intended to
be quick and safe way to lose ample weight.
As far as macronutrients are concerned, the diet asks
for about 40-50% of
calories to come from protein and carbs as
well. This leaves virtually no space for fats. However,
fats are more important than people think. Eliminating
fats will simply leave one more vulnerable to ailments
such as:
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Arthritis |
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Tendinitis |
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Some types of cancer. |
A Non-Restrictive Diet
One factor that helps differentiate this approach from
the rest of the pack is its purposeful lack of food/caloric
restriction. The Body for Life diet requires one to
eat 6 small meals a day every few hours or so.
Eat These Carbohydrates
Carbohyrdates can come from potatoes, brown rice, fruit
and plenty of others and need to be served
in a portion no larger than a fist. Even
vegetables can be eaten in large quantities since they
happen to be low in calories.
Eat These Proteins
Protein servings should consist of
lean cuts of beef, chicken, pork, or fish and
each serving should be proportional to one’s own
palm.
How Does Body For Life Help Me Lose
Weight?
In order to help kick-start the metabolism in the morning,
Phillips recommends eating a meal especially rich in
carbohydrates. While some may think this sounds like
too much food blended with all the “wrong”
dieting principles, it’s actually soundly rooted
in science. With smaller meals eaten throughout the
day, one will ensure that blood glucose levels are stable
as opposed to the common phenomenon that follows a large
meal: a spike in insulin. Too many of these spikes can
permanently ruin one’s metabolism leading one
to gain weight much more rapidly than ever before. Secondly,
by learning to eat this many meals, one also learns
not to let the body dictate when it is time to eat.
By allowing the body to become hungry, one is feeding
suspicions that the body is retreating into “starvation
mode” and must hoard fat and burn perfectly good
muscle tissue instead in order to fuel the body. By
eating more, one can actually lose more, as odd as that
may sound.
Your Fitness Lifestyle
Another concept that helps to separate it from all
of the other competing diet fads out there is its requirement
for daily exercise. There must be 3 days of weight training
allowed, as well as 3 cardio days. The weight training
days last 45 minutes while the cardio training days
last only 20 minutes. On the seventh day, one can rest
and actually eat whatever it is they so desire. Regular
exercise with a proper diet will produce results and
other than the fact that some more unsaturated fat needs
to be included, maybe even in place of some of the protein,
Bill Phillip’s Body for Life diet is definitely
a recommended path to take.
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