Ten Stupid Lies On Shifting Fat

By Al Wilson

Believe it or not, in spite of all the information there is today on how to shift lots of fat and condition the muscles, there are still a lot of stupid lies out there on the subject.
I’m going to inform you of 10 of the most common ones.

The statistics don’t lie. In the societies of the developed world, the number of people who are overweight has grown to frighteningly epidemic proportions. The ironic thing about it is that the solution for getting rid of the excess pounds is simple. And when I say simple, I mean simple. All people have to do is observe a balanced diet and take regular exercise.
However, even though the solution is as straightforward, as inexpensive and as easy to apply as this, people are still getting fatter and fatter. This doesn’t actually surprise me, bearing in mind that — and this is wherein the problem lies — there isn’t, and hasn’t been, enough reliable information on nutrients and on dieting in general for all those people who have tried to strip the fat off their bodies but have failed. They think that they’re eating well when, in actual fact, they’re eating the wrong things and, in addition, they either don’t exercise, or they overestimate the value of the exercise that they do take, mistakenly believing that they’re burning loads of calories when this isn’t the case.
But even worse than that, people who we assume keep themselves in decent physical shape and the formation of adipose tissue (fat beneath the skin) under control, like those who visit the gym regularly, and even a fair few bodybuilders, have trouble maintaining conditioned physiques and preventing the pounds from piling on.
The reason for all of the above is that there are a lot of stupid lies flying around out there on how to get rid of fat.
And the 10 that I’m about to warn you of now are perhaps the ones that are most embedded in people’s consciousness.

Lie One: You can’t eat a lot if you want to slim down
That sounds fair enough, doesn’t it? Well it isn’t! But that’s what most people do when they want to slim down two or three kilos before summer comes and we’re all heading for the beach. It almost always works as well, but only for a very short spell. If you engage in this practice for too long, or if you attempt to lose more weight than that with this method, then the measure will become counterproductive and have the opposite effect; besides not shifting fat, you’ll shed muscle tissue.
The restrictions of the diet trigger a mechanism within the body which is a kind of alert. The body puts all its resources into staying alive, interpreting the shortage as a threat to its survival, and whittles down our metabolic rate. The purpose of this is to burn fewer calories when we’re resting and preserve as many as possible of the ones that we do consume.
It has to be acknowledged that this reduction in meals will see you lose some weight in the beginning. The body will shed pounds and, above all, water, but after these first few days it then starts ‘economising’ with the calories no matter how. It stores them as fat to keep us alive, and would prefer to burn muscle instead to provide us with energy.
Worse still is that as soon as we start eating a little more again, the body piles the fat back on and we become fatter than we were before.

Lie Two: Carbohydrates have to be the main macronutrient in the diet
Carbohydrates are our best source of energy and have no fat in them, so it was thought for many years that diets with lots of carbohydrates in them were the ultimate in dieting. But then when ketogenic diets like the ‘Zone Diet’ and the ‘Atkins Diet’ came on to the scene, excessive carbohydrate consumption was found in most cases to be responsible for people becoming overweight.
Carbohydrates are indeed indispensable for certain functions of the body and as food for the brain, but proteins are just as important, or even more so, for the regeneration of cells and the preservation of muscle, two crucial aspects of an efficient metabolism. Carbohydrates, of course, aren’t fats, but it’s a fact that, on the contrary, they do turn into fat easily if we eat too many of them or if we eat the wrong type, such as simple carbohydrates, starchy ones and ones with a high glycemic index.

Lie Three: Carbohydrates are our enemies
As we’ve just seen, carbohydrates consumed to excess will fatten you up. That’s a fact and the reason why they’re considered these days to be the culprits for the excess pounds that most of the population with weight problems gain. If that’s your perspective, then you’d be right, but there is no need to go to extremes. Above all, things must be considered in more detail, since not all fats are bad (which we’ll see shortly) nor are all carbohydrates the same.
Some are of the opinion that carbohydrates aren’t an essential feature of a diet and can therefore be cut down upon or even removed from it completely. Well, that’s a mistake as well.
Advocates of extra-low-carbohydrate diets claim that they will prevent the body from secreting insulin, the hormone responsible for carrying sugar to the muscles and generating fatty tissue formation, so that we stay slim and our muscles remain conditioned. However, carbohydrates aren’t the enemy; they’re much the opposite and besides serve as the body’s main provider of fuel, they’re required for many functions, some of which would be the maintenance of smooth thyroid operation, a gland which synthesises hormones that burn up fat and regulate the metabolism.
The key isn’t to clear out all of the carbohydrates from the diet, but to remove the ones that really cause insulin levels to surge and, consequently, fat to form. Bear in mind that any man-made product will have lost some of its original (natural) properties in the course of its manufacture and will have a high glycemic index. Such products would include white bread, bread buns, other bakery and confectionary products, white rice and soft drinks, etc. Natural sources of carbohydrate, like brown rice, whole wheat flour, wholemeal bread, legumes, green vegetables, root vegetables and salads have lots of fibre in them, as well as many other nutrients, and their glucose is released slowly into the blood without setting off an insulin spike.
Therefore, you must be sure to consume at least 50 to 100 grams of carbohydrates per day for your metabolism to perform its functions as it should and to also be able to condition your physique without any hassle.

Lie Four: Fat Fattens
The deep-rooted notion that fat fattens is a misguided one, since there are fats and there are fats. From a scientific perspective, a fat molecule consists of groups and sub-groups. But I have no intention of complicating things for you by stating the chemical differences between them all, so it shall suffice to say that certain fats are healthy and essential i.e. we must eat them for the body to be able to conduct its vital functions.
The fats in question are known as ‘essential fatty acids’ (EFAs) and many studies have established them to execute a number of functions, including regulation of blood pressure and inflammation, of steroid and sex hormone formation, of the body’s response to stress, of lipid metabolism, and formation of cellular membranes, reinforcement of the immune system, nervous system support and energy production.
As you can see, without fat it is absolutely impossible for the body to perform its functions.
And EFAs are precisely the fats of which there must be moderate amounts in our diets, for, besides serving as a second source of energy (carbohydrates being the main one), they bring about a finer operation of the metabolism and, paradoxically, assist the body in disposing of excess fatty tissue. When I say EFAs I mean the fats that come from pulses, avocadoes, oily fish and cooking oils from plants.
The notion that fat fattens can lead to apprehensions that end up with the person who has them observing a diet that has no fat in it whatsoever. Diets like this can have severe consequences, such as undernourishment, eating disorders, chronic fatigue, impotence, a weak immune system and, the biggest paradox of them all: further weight gain in fat.

Lie Five: Two much sugar is better than too much fat
In actual fact it’s the other way round. Sugar generates an imbalance in glucose levels and if the balance is upset repeatedly, it can cause diabetes in adults. The assumption is that saturated fats can lead to cardiovascular illnesses in the long run, but that’s not always the truth because, as we’ve discussed, monounsaturated fats, in the form of EFAs, are healthy and essential for the body. These are provided in the form of flax seed oil, olive oil and by walnuts, almonds and avocadoes. Without them our health would crumble, whereas we don’t need sugar at all.
Allow me to emphasise that the body transforms all carbohydrates into glucose (sugar). It metabolises them all like this so that it can absorb them, whether they come from a vegetable or from a sweet.
But while green vegetables and legumes will supply you vitamins, fibre and antioxidants, sucrose and foods that have lots of fructose or dextrose in them are not indispensable for the body to carry out its functions; the only thing they’re good for is pushing up sugar levels and demolishing your pancreas.
If you really must cheat on your diet, it’s better to do it with fats than with sugary foods!

Lie Six: Eating at night makes you fatter
People take it for granted that if you eat on a night-time you’ll grow fatter. There is a certain logic to this for the metabolism slows down at night and, besides, we wind down too before going to bed; consequently, we don’t use up (much) energy, so the conclusion can easily be drawn that what we do eat will then be transformed into fat. This is a truth of sorts.
In reality, whether the body transforms the calories we consume at night into fat or otherwise depends on more than a single factor. The main ones are the amount of calories our body burns over 24 hrs, the balance of hormone levels and, above all, the foods that make up our evening meal.
All you have to do is try to make sure that there are few carbohydrates with a high glycemic index in the meal. Evening meals, therefore, must be balanced ones with protein, unsaturated fats and fibrous carbohydrates in them.

Lie Seven: The body can only digest one food at a time
Human beings, just like some animals, are omnivorous, which means that we eat everything. Our intestine is half the size of that of animals and can reprocess foods of all kinds.
We have a much more advanced digestive apparatus than animals and it can withstand any kind of food. Diets that are devised on the premise that we’re unable to digest more than a single food at a time, be it proteins, carbohydrates or fats, are done so in sinful ignorance. The human body has been constructed in such a way that it can handle a massive variety of macronutrients and foods at the same time. This is simply the manner in which we’ve evolved.

Lie Eight: The body can only absorb a certain amount of proteins and calories
Going back to what we’ve just been saying about our evolution, mankind has progressed by eating according to when there was food available. Primitive man would go from a major feast when he managed to successfully hunt down his prey to going for several days without eating because there was no food to be had.
The simple upshot of this is that if we weren’t able to absorb a huge amount of food all at once, then we wouldn’t have survived as a species. You would be surprised how much we can absorb in a single sitting. So those who think they can eat a king-sized amount of food because, at the end of the day, the body isn’t going to absorb it are wrong. Needless to say, they’ll fatten up as well.
Thanks to this very survival mechanism which we’ve inherited, if we eat a lot of a food at once, the body stores a large part of this ‘banquet’ as a spare supply of energy in the event of famine.
So on mere account of this, it’s better to eat something every three hours or so, but you must make these meals small ones. The body will then understand that it will be nourished constantly and therefore have no need to hold on to the food and store it all as fat.

Lie Nine: As long as you eat things in moderation, you can eat whatever you want
To see so many people be taken in by such an outrageous lie is disgraceful. But they believe it because it suits them to, of course. This principle allows them to eat a slice of their favourite cake, to treat themselves to a little alcohol, to nibble at a few ‘off-limits’ foods here and there, in the conviction that because it’s just a little they won’t put any weight on.
Well, they’re making a huge mistake.
The main problem with this approach is that they don’t take note of all the ‘just a little’s that they permit themselves and will see any progress they have made with their diet just about go out of the window. And there is also another, more psychological problem: lack of satisfaction. People who have a weakness for chocolate, bread or any other food that shouldn’t be in their diet fail to satisfy their craving with just a small amount. They then go on to eat more and more of it regularly, almost without realising it, and destroy any chance their diet ever has of working for them.
That’s why bodybuilders go on a clean diet during the week, then allow themselves a dietary no-no on the weekend, which is when they can satisfy their craving with a generous portion of their favourite ‘naughty but nice’ food.

Lie Ten: Fat-burning supplements are useless
Obviously not all of the fat-burning supplements that are on the market do the job they’re supposed to. And that’s because the body employs a number of systems to get rid of fat. So if you only focus on one of them, you can’t expect anything else other than failure with them.
In order to solve a problem, you first have to identify the cause. In this case, it’s a matter of understanding how the body forms and breaks down fat. Only once we’ve understood this process can we get to the bottom of the matter.

The formation of fatty tissue may be down to one or several of the following fundamental causes:
• Excessive calorie consumptio
• Extremely low energy expenditure
• Slow metabolic rate
• Higher insulin levels
• High carbohydrate consumption in a diet.
And the measures that could be taken to counteract each of the above are:
• Reduction of calorie intake e.g. by consuming less fatty foods and foods with lots of calories in them
• Greater levels of activity, by exercising to raise calorie expenditure, with cardiovascular exercise, for instance
• Acceleration of metabolic rate for the body to employ more calories, and therefore more fat, when we perform all of our day-to-day activities
• Down-regulation of insulin levels via exercise and diet
• Reduction of starchy carbohydrate content in the diet, as well as of that of carbohydrates with a high glycemic index.

At this level you ought to be aware that in order to take fat off your body you should observe a diet with little saturated fat and sugar in it and, in the meantime, increase weight training workout loads to put more muscle together. Weight training, incidentally, is a fine way to trigger the metabolism and expend calories, as is cardiovascular exercise, which enables us to cast off the fat quicker by extracting energy from it and stepping up the metabolic rate.
And now there is a formula that does a mightily effective job of demolishing adipose tissue, while blocking formation of further fatty tissue and adding a respectable amount of muscle to the frame. This formula is the Future Concepts TH 101.
The secret to the successful operation of TH 101 lies in the development of the product so that it will act upon different aspects of the metabolism and of the body’s fat-busting and lean-muscle-building systems. The perfect and precise combination of 12 incredibly special ingredients, some of which synergise with others, set up the metabolism in ideal and decisive fashion for the formula to accomplish these objectives.
The tremendous efficacy of TH101 is down to the performance of its operations on a number of fundamental fronts:
Stimulation of the thyroid, the gland that chiefly regulates the metabolic rate. The user therefore enjoys higher energy levels and burns more calories. Two of the compounds in the formula are raw materials with which the gland synthesises its hormones and a further two are coenzymes that assist in the production of these hormones.
Alteration of the body’s preferential source of energy, switching it from the glucose of the carbohydrates to the fatty acids from fat. This triggers the employment of body fat that the body has stored as fuel for transformation into energy. The exercise performed will take off fat as a result.
Increased thermogenesis, the generation of body heat. As a result of this minor increase in body temperature, you’re sure to use up more calories in the course of the day, even without doing any exercise and even as you rest.
Regulation of insulin levels, preventing the insulin spikes that would later cause energy levels to drop and fatty tissue to form, and assurance that insulin levels won’t fall, which would otherwise cause hunger and a craving for sugar foods, more than for any other, to set in.
Blockage of glucose conversion into fat and encouragement of it into glycogen. In practice, this means that surplus glucose that the body doesn’t burn to produce energy, rather than as fat, will either be stored as glycogen or disposed of if not.
Disposal of fluids that have been retained beneath the skin, the formula thus exercising a diuretic capacity.
The special ingredient that releases testosterone from the blood protein, sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which clamps onto the hormone as it circulates around the body and cancels out its anabolic properties. Upon its release from the SHBG, the testosterone can retrieve its anabolic properties and build more muscle.
Most supplements designed to shift fat don’t work, or if they do, then it’s only a little and for a short time, admittedly. That’s because the way that they’ve been designed, and their composition, aren’t based on the fundamental roots of the body’s fat-formation processes.
The 12 ingredients in TH 101, however, tackle each aspect of the problem and resolve the matter with an immaculate and effective style, will do so even more effectively as usage of the ergoceutical (as the company calls its formulae) continues, and go on to regulate the metabolism so that it extracts more energy for the user from fat, then blocking further fat formation.
There are a lot of stupid lies about shifting fat
A lot of the stuff that people say about shifting fat is unreliable, if not an outright lie. Above are 10 of the stupidest ones to escape people’s lips, and there are still people who believe them. But you, on the other hand, know the truth about them now and, better still, what must be done to strip off those excess pounds.