Awhile back I spent some much needed family time in Perth. There, we ended up watching an Australian version of a show called The Biggest Loser.
Reality shows don’t usually appeal to me, but this one caught my attention. They performed calculations about the competitors’ chronological age versus their body’s age.
Given that intense health research was involved in this program, I could not help but stay tuned in. They literally calculated the “body age” of people and it was rather scary. One man was 32 years old when he joined the show, but his body was 56 years old. Given his health issues, he would very possibly die within a few years.
After spending three months of dieting and working out, his body was 39 years old. He added 17 years to his life! Another woman was 27 years old - real age, but at the end of the three months, her body age was 22 years old.
Working out and dieting cannot be denied as part of a healthy lifestyle. A question or term though that arises often in conjunction with weight loss is metabolism. What in the world does this concept really mean and how does it relate to Weight Loss?
At the core, metabolism is actually a combination of chemical reactions necessary to maintain life. It is further categorized into catabolism which breaks down matter for energy harvesting and anabolism which creates proteins and nucleic acids from energy.
While there is much more involved in metabolism (including a lot of lengthy scientific words and concepts) – what most of us really want to understand is how it relates to weight loss and weight gain.
One aspect of metabolism as it applies to weight is TEF or “thermic effect” or “thermic effect of food” as well as “specific dynamic action” or SDA. In simple terms, TEF can describe the measurement of energy required to process food. SDA presents the concept in terms of caloric percentage. For instance, a common but variable example would be that 10% of the caloric intake is used in processing food.
This of course is why certain foods are much more appealing if one is trying to lose weight. The ten percent mentioned above is just an overall estimate. Certain foods like fats digest quite easily. So, very few calories from those foods are used up during digestion. Proteins on the other hand are much more difficult to process.
Some foods are even claimed to result in negative net calories in that they contain fewer calories than required to digest such as celery.
Aerobic activity can also play a part in the thermal effect though at the rate of less than 8 calories per hour. This does not mean that exercise does not affect weight; only that it plays less of a roll in the calculation of energy in food digestion.
Energy is the key component as part of metabolism when it comes to weight. The more calories you are burning, the more energy is needed. So, as it turns out we have little ability to change our metabolism directly. We are however, able to impact the energy we use.
Again exercise does not greatly affect the calories burned in food digestion, but it does burn calories directly due to the need for energy. This is due in large part to the increase in oxygen obtained when exercising.
Increase your oxygen supply, increase your energy. Increase your energy and burn more calories. Combining that with nutritious foods and the result will be a healthy weight.
My Weight Loss Breeze Program is a phenomenal way to increase your oxygen and energy level to shed pounds. It’s not a work out program. You won’t even break a sweat when doing my exercises. They are designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to increase the oxygen and energy level in the body and therefore increase metabolism.
While proper nutrition is recommended, my program actually does not require any special diet and the exercises are easy to do.
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