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A successful weight-loss plan starts with understanding and optimizing your metabolism. The Lumen device can help by providing an innovative way to track your metabolism.
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What’s the hardest part of following a diet plan?
Not knowing if you’re doing it right? Sure, you have the scale that would show if your weight were dropping.
But what if you’re starving yourself, yet not a single gram goes down?
Key elements of a weight loss regimen
- Energy deficit.
I mention this first because it’s the oldest “recommendation” for weight loss. Yet many have experienced that counting calories and restricting intake often fails to produce results. Despite starvation, body weight does not decrease. - Nutrient composition.
The main components of food are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, trace elements, and vitamins. From an energy production standpoint, the first three play a role.
If there are carbohydrates, your metabolism produces energy from them. So if every meal contains a bit of bread, grains, potatoes, or rice, it will never switch to fat burning. You consume 600 calories, yet you don’t lose weight... which means the basic requirement for weight loss is (temporary) restriction of carbohydrates. - Timing.
The most important condition leading to obesity is an abundance of food and constant, frequent daily eating and energy intake. The fewer times you eat, the more efficiently your metabolism works, and the healthier your mitochondria. They can quickly switch from sugar burning to fat burning and back. The 8/16 hour fast is beneficial—that is, you can eat freely between 8 am and 4 pm (almost anything), followed by a 16-hour eating break.
