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Feeding for fitness and weight loss from San Jose Boot Camp

Several of my San Jose Boot Camp members have had concerns about weight loss this past week, and it prompted me to share what I consider to be a major problem in weight loss especially with women.

Sarah came in for measurements at Prime Physique Fitness and asked:

"I'm watching my diet, eating incredibly healthy, working hard at San Jose Boot Camp, running, and actually completing half marathons in record time… But I'm gaining weight and not losing fat, I don't understand why this is happening. I'm frustrated and I should be losing weight!"

Sarah is correct, she should be losing weight, and she should be losing fat.

So I questioned her about her eating habits…

• She has not been tracking her diet.
• She has been restricting calories.
• She has not been consistent on the number of meals she's consuming.

What she has been doing is:

• Exercising very hard.
• Exercising a lot.
• And basically training her body to store fat!

That's right… Store fat!

Here's the deal:

Not burning fat is not your fault!

The body, especially the female body, has one goal: Survival!

The body does this by storing fat in preparation for time of famine. 

So what's going wrong here?

Exercising hard, exercising a lot, restricting calories… Is too much on the body and puts it into a state of starvation. Therefore the body will store fat to preserve life.

Sarah can exercise, and exercise, and exercise, and she will continue to store body fat.

It is not just calories in, calories out. It just doesn't work that way.

So what does Sarah need to do?

Sarah needs to:

• Increase her calories
• Increase her number of feedings
• Increase her frequency of feedings throughout the entire day.
• Sarah NEEDS MORE CALORIES TO BURN FAT & LOSE WEIGHT!

What?

You read that right, she needs more calories.

The first thing that I told Sarah was that I need her to:

• Eeat six meals per day
• Continue to eat healthy
• Eat balanced meals
• And not worry so much about calories right now.

This will help the body get out of the state of famine… Bottom line is we have to increase calories to start burning fat again.

Now you may think that I'm crazy, but with 20+ years of experience as fitness and weight loss expert, I seen this before, I've seen it with many clients (especially women)… And it may be hard to digest, but it is true.

I will report Sarah's results back to you on the Prime Physique Fitness and Weight Loss Blog at our next measurement session in three weeks.

But even more than that, over the course of the next 10 months (fitness and weight loss is an ongoing thing) I KNOW we will see many more changes and improvements in Sarah's body that I'm happy to share with you...and Sarah will be incredibly happy to! (By the Way, Sarah said it was OK to print this :-)

If you have any questions about your diet, if you're stuck losing weight, or if it's time to get the proper help and get into great shape this year… Let me know!

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