Fat Loss Rather Than Weight Loss is Key to Dieting Success, Say Experts

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health recently publicized a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will “revolutionize” the way people tackle obesity.  But some critics find this announcement misguided.

Current standards in the United States, where two thirds of people are overweight or obese, advise people that cutting calories by a certain amount will result in a slow and steady weight loss over time. However, that advice fails to account for how the body changes as it slims down, burning less energy and acquiring a slower metabolism, researchers told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Vancouver. The result is a plateau effect that ends up discouraging dieters and sending them back into harmful patterns of overeating.

“Traditional dieting and weight loss advice is leading everyone down the wrong road,” say boomer generation health experts Dian Griesel, Ph.D., and Tom Griesel, authors of the new books TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (April 2011, BSH) and The TurboCharged Mind (January 2012, BSH).  “Focusing on weight loss instead of fat loss and maintaining lean body mass (LBM) is a mistake, and it is universal in almost all diet programs and books,” adds Tom.  “Weight loss is not the same thing as fat loss.  On a typical diet, 20% to 50%+ of total weight lost is LBM.  It is LBM that drives the bulk of your metabolism and any loss of critical tissue not only lowers your base metabolic rate (BMR), it also triggers primal survival mechanisms that result in extreme hunger.”

“Nature plays a cruel trick on most ‘serial dieters’ who are constantly yo-yo dieting:  Weight gained back is typically 90% fat and only 10% LBM,” adds Dian.  “This means that with each subsequent effort, the dieter is getting fatter and fatter from a body composition perspective.  Losing excess body fat and improving body composition is the core of a successful program.  This is accomplished by following steps that will preserve or increase LBM while losing only body fat.”

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