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Slimming while you sleep

Vitality, energy, a good body: you simply cannot buy it. A lot of people are or feel too fat and often want a quick result with a strict diet. However, besides good and sufficient food, good and sufficient sleep is just as much of vital importance and its value is often underestimated. Generally, a strict diet doesn't do the trick nor has it the desired impact, neither does a miraculous diet or - some preparation. Only a healthy diet, a healthy way of life and a good deep sleep will help you to lose weight. When you feel good , energy radiates and attracts the attention. Strict diets are the wrong way to reach your goal.

healthy food What are you doing to your body with a strict weight loss treatment?
  • A fierce approach often leads to loss of bodily fluids and breakdown of muscular tissue, not a lasting reduction of bodyfat. After the treatment you regain your original weight rapidly.
  • You deprive your body of physically essential nutritional substances  (vitamins, calcium, iron...)
  • A drastic diet is usually one-sided and not wholesome, so very hard to keep up.
  • You can increase the chances of wrinkles.
  • It can damage your health and make you tired, irritable and depressed. Nobody will enjoy being with you.
  • It can disturb your hormonal household totally.
  • Your craving for sex disappears.
What are the consequences?

Out of disappointment and comfort yourself, you quit your diet, become fatter and loaded with a guilt feeling because you have failed yet again.
So the search goes on to find your way to a new diet.  Slim-fat-slim-fat, just like a yo-yo, with the additional danger of muscle tissue gettting damaged and replaced with fat.

Some tips

  • More than 1 kilogramme weight loss per week is not healthy. If you lose more it is at the cost of the muscle mass.  Whatever is gained in a month, you cannot lose in a couple days. During the first one and a half week, after changing your eating habits, it is possible to lose up to 2 or 3 kilogrammes but that is mostly water. Afterwards 0.5 up to 1 kilogrammes is usually sufficient. Then you can be certain that you are losing excess fat.
  • Not having breakfast damages your health: not having breakfast is bad for the cholesterol levels in the blood and the sensitivity for insulin. Moreover, there is a danger of increasing weight.
  • Eat regularly: 3 main courses  and 2 snacks. Take smaller portions than you would ordinarily.
  • Do not delay if you are hungry, because that will make you go for appetizers such as biscuits and chips.
  • If you wish to reduce weight by doing sports, it is better to sensibly combine endurance (cardio) with powertraining (muscle strengthening). If you want to lose weight by exercising, you need to have a basic condition to use the fat.
  • The excess fat we pile up as reserves. The amount you gain can be determined genetically, but whether you will be too fat depends on your energy balance. You can control that by watching what you eat, how much you exercise and whether you have a good deep sleep - a good mattress.
  • Do not worry if you should gain a few pounds after the start of a trainingsprogramme, especially powertraining can make you slightly heavier. Muscle mass is heavier than fat.
  • A good bed also helps you get slim ! During the deep sleep hormones are produced that help you burn fat and reduce your appetite. A good mattress will definitely help you become or stay slim.