How to Loose Weight On A Diet
And Keep It Off For Good
In recent blogs, I have told you about how people have a hard time losing weight. A big part of the problem is that most of them don’t eat enough protein. Researchers also found that an herb can really help keep the weight off. In this study, the researchers did three phases to find their results. In the first phase, they gave 12 men and 12 women who were slightly overweight a calorie-restricted diet. In the second phase, they did the same thing, but gave them more protein. They found that the protein kept the dieters from getting hungry and going off their diet. Then, in the third phase, they tried capsaicin.
Capsaicin is a nutrient found in chili peppers.
It’s the thing that burns your mouth. Previous studies have shown that capsaicin increases both resting metabolism and fat metabolism. So it seemed like it might just be the thing to counteract some of the nasty effects of dieting that the researchers were seeing.
In this third part of the experiment, the researchers put the men and women back on the regular diet, but this time they gave them capsules containing capsaicin. The results were remarkable. The capsaicin not only prevented the decrease in resting metabolism and fat metabolism, it also prevented the decrease in diet-induced thermogenesis. And that’s not all. By doing all of these things, it blocked any feelings of hunger and also increased EE. Basically, it reversed every single negative effect of a weight-reduction diet. Pretty good for a completely natural and incredibly inexpensive supplement. But our researchers were not done yet.
They reasoned that if a higher protein diet worked better than a regular protein diet, and if capsaicin had all these great effects, the combination of both of them might just be the ultimate ticket. So that’s what they did. They combined the high protein diet with the capsaicin capsules. And predictably the results were even better. Here’s what the authors said.
“Our results suggest that protein and capsaicin, consumed singly or mixed, counteracted the diet-induced effects on hunger and EE. During energy restriction [dieting], protein and capsaicin promoted increased fat metabolism and protein treatments also prevented a negative protein balance [loss of lean body mass].
.I can’t wait to try this out with my patients But you can do it at home. Here’s what you do. First of all, you need to know how many calories you need to restrict your diet to.
One way to do it is to monitor what you eat for a week. Then determine the amount of calories, divide by seven, and multiply by 0.8. Here’s an example. Say you find out that over a one-week period, you ate 11,375 calories. Divide that by seven and it comes out to 1,625 calories per day. You multiply that by 0.8 and get 1,300 calories. So you will need to restrict your calorie intake to 1,300 calories per day. But that’s not all for the absolute best results.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Jack Belitz DC
PS
Now is the time of year people like to loose weight because of all the activities that are avaiable to exercise. If this is one of your goals, call the office and I will take some time to show you just how easy it is by just changing a few things in your diet. My patients are loosing about 10 pounds every 2 or 3 weeks while taking these suggestions. Call 402-333-4848 for your consultation. You will be glad you did once the weight starts coming off.
