You might enjoy the collection of these two posts...
Symptoms of Fat Loss Part 1 (The Drain Effect)
I have talked about this a TON lately with my
fat loss clients and board members.
Let's run down real quick and shortly what
fat loss is.
Fat loss is the removal of stored
body fat from your
body. In order to achieve
fat loss you need to be in a deficit of
energy. Meaning that what it takes to run your
body for a day you need to be negative in. If your
body need 2000 kcal of
energy to run, and you feed is 1500
calories, it is in the negative by 500
calories.
Now let's take away the numbers and think about what that really means.
Your
body in order to function properly needs a certain amount of
energy. One could compare this to say a flashlight. Oh here comes another analogy!!!
A flashlight running on 100% perfect charged batteries shines bright, is lucid, and performs perfectly when needed for a tasks.
What happens when those batteries start to drain of
energy?
The light is less bright, performance is shaky, and the crystal clear stream of light is now muddy.
You know how it is when the batteries are almost dead, you start to bang the flashlight to get those extra jolts of connection just before that moment where the
fat lady has sung and no more power.
NOW, imagine your
body is that flashlight and as time goes on your batteries are running low. How are you going to feel?
-Less lucid, foggy
-easily emotional
-fatigue
-
hunger
-harder to wake up in the morning
-muscle soreness
-sadness
These are not symptoms of overtraining...these are symptoms of
fat loss.
Think about it folks, you are removing a physical substance from your
body. It was once there and you are trying to make it no more. You might say well i put it there easy, taking it away can't be that hard.
Well (and ryan I hope you are reading this) when is the last time you glued something? How easy was that to get on? How much of a pain was it to get off?
So just
fat loss alone doesn't feel good, it shouldn't feel good, anyone that tells you it will either doesn't know, or doesn't want you to know. That doesn't mean
fat loss isn't good for you if you are overweight. Just saying it isn't a walk in the park for the
body.
This is why I try to get my client to lose
fat as quick as they can, but as safely as they can. So that The Drain Effect doesn't turn into what we are going to talk about in part two.
