Diet Willpower is Overrated! Lose More Weight by Cheating

February 21, 2010 | By Valen | In Weight loss diet

Diet willpower is often thought of as the necessary ingredient in successful weight loss but actually practicing the will to keep your calories low for weeks or even months on end can actually slow your weight loss. Research and real life cases show that regular cheating on your diet will cause you to lose weight faster and keep the weight coming off week after week.

Keeping your calories low week in and week out requires willpower, there is no doubt about that. You find yourself in many situations where you must, using your will, turn down your favorite foods and keep on track. Yet when calories are kept low for a sustained period of time your body slows your metabolism making weight loss very difficult.

Here is what happens…

You restrict your calories.

A hormone in your body registers a red flag fearing you are in a famine.

In an attempt to keep you from starving your body slams the brakes on your metabolism so you don’t burn up your energy reserves, i.e. FAT.

So by restricting your calories you are actually causing your body to save body fat! Not good.

Instead of focusing on diet willpower, focus on dieting smarter. And the number one rule of dieting smart is to keep your metabolism high.

How do you keep your metabolism high while dieting? The answer is simple, you cheat. By holding strict to your diet plan for 6 days of the week and then having a scheduled “Cheat Day” on day 7 you boost your metabolism and reap the benefits of a fully functioning fat burning machine.

Now, I know you are thinking that you will just reverse all of your hard work by cheating but this is not what the research and real life case studies have shown and here is why. While it is true that you will retain water weight after the cheat day this weight will quickly drop off during the 6 days you diet plus you will have the invaluable benefit of a metabolism working at full steam.

So stop leaning on diet willpower to lose those stubborn pounds and look into how adding a cheat day can actually accelerate your results.

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