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Don’t Get Fooled by Fad Diets
Successfully Change Your Eating Routine Instead
Brian Roberts Your Central Mass Fat Loss Coach Here…
We are inundated with diet books, weight loss programs, and magazines touting the latest Hollywood diets. Not to mention that Google searches on ‘diet for weight loss’ return over 300 million results! This is why fad diets can seem like an attractive option for the majority of people who do not educate themselves on healthy eating regimes.
The scientific definition of a fad diet is: “Any of a number of weight-reduction diets that either eliminate one or more of the essential food groups, or recommend consumption of one type of food in excess at the expense of other foods. Fad diets rarely follow sound nutritional principles for weight loss, which focus on ingesting fewer calories and/or consuming more energy through exercise; fad diets are generally not endorsed by the medical profession.”
This is the link to one article we found that gives an idea about some fad diets out there and another link to a fad diet timeline.
Despite best intentions, most people have an extraordinarily hard time dropping those extra 5, 10, or 20 pounds – and even more trouble keeping pounds off. It’s not because we aren’t hard-working, smart, or have self-control. Keeping weight off is one thing that’s perpetually difficult. Weight loss and fat loss comes down to basic biology. Your body, programmed by evolution to survive famines, doesn’t like to be given less food. When you diet, it assumes there’s a famine and hangs on to every fat cell it can. The more you diet, the more resistant your body becomes to losing weight. So instead of going for that quick weight loss, you’re more likely to succeed by making small diet and exercise changes that will produce more lasting effects. The good news here it that you don’t need to spend a lot of money, join a fancy gym, avoid your favorite foods, have special meals delivered or buy another diet book.
Here at Central Mass Fat Loss, we don’t want you to get fooled by those excellent marketing and branding tools they use to attract interest. Instead, we teach you about portion sizes and healthy eating routines as discussed in a previous blog post: Healthy Eating and Portion Sizes and we give you that 1-1 attention for your individualized program to ensure that you are successful. We make sure that we’re assessing what nutrients YOUR body needs and what minerals will assist YOU in burning fat.
If you ever have any questions or need any advice, don’t hesitate to touch base with us.
Get in contact with us here to set up a consultation with us.
You will be amazed at what we bring to the table!
Brian Roberts – Director
Central Mass Fat Loss
6 Colonial Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
(508)834-6260 Cell or TextCheck out our website for upcoming events as well as previous posts
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Get Your Portion Sizes Right
Healthy Eating and Portion Sizes
Brian Roberts Your Central Mass Fat Loss Coach Here…
Whilst a majority of people are embarking on fad diets or quick blitzes, you are very much aware that those fads never end well, and it in turn inspires you to improve your diet and health at ANY time of the year.
Out go the crisps, chocolates and biscuits, and our shelves are stocked with avocados, coconut oil and hummus.
The trouble is, it’s easy to forget that just because something is healthy, that doesn’t give you a free pass to binge. Binging will actually set you back in reaching your health and fitness goals. Your goal of slimming down or building muscle will take longer. Understanding there’s more to losing fat than just ENERGY IN vs. ENERGY OUT, is definitely a good place to start.
Few nutritionists or dietitians would recommend counting calories – that’s because counting NUTRIENTS is a much more sensible way to go – and keep in mind that the quantity and quality of food you’re eating IS important.
Everything can be ‘unhealthy’ if consumed to excess; even water!
“Foods that are high in fat and low in nutrients, such as fries, doughnuts, crisps, chocolate and cake should definitely be kept to an ‘occasional’ food, but when it comes to foods that are high in fat and high in nutrients, we can indeed have them more frequently.”
It’s essential to get your portion size right though.
“There are days where we overindulge and eat more than we usually would, but in general it can be helpful to be mindful of what a portion size is for different foods and different individuals’ needs.”
At Central Mass Fat Loss, together we figure out what portion sizes work for YOUR body, what nutrients YOUR body needs and what minerals will assist YOU in burning fat. We give you that 1-1 attention for your individualized program to ensure that you are successful.
If you ever have any questions or need any advice, don’t hesitate to touch base with us.
Get in contact with us here to set up a consultation with us.
You will be amazed at what we bring to the table!
Brian Roberts – Director
Central Mass Fat Loss
6 Colonial Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
(508)834-6260 Cell or TextCheck out our website for upcoming events as well as previous posts
For updates and event info, subscribe to our newsletter HERE
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Benefits of a Couples Fat Loss Program
Brian Roberts Your Central Mass Fat Loss Coach Here…
If you’re thinking about embarking on a new, healthy lifestyle with your significant other (or even a friend that’s a great accountability partner), then you’ll want to pay close attention to the information below.
Before I get into what Central Mass Fat Loss offers, I will share some overall benefits to “couples” who take on the challenge together.
You’ll have an in-house support system –
Countless studies have shown that support from others is an important part of success, which is why having a built-in support network is one of the biggest perks to losing fat as a couple. For example, when one person doesn’t feel like working out or is tempted to over-indulge, the other person can push them harder and remind each them that they’ll regret it if they give into those temptations. Going grocery shopping and going out to dinner is easier when done together to help each other make healthy choices, as you’ll be sharing the same food and saving money in the long run.
Your relationship can become a priority again –
When you and your significant are working together to accomplish something, you’re essentially bonding — maybe in a way you haven’t before. Maybe you’ve been so busy with kids, grandkids, work, life, etc. and haven’t spent a lot of time together lately. Now that you’ve made this decision for a healthier lifestyle, you’ll cook together, eat together, and work out together. It’s inevitably going to bring you closer and possibly add benefits of getting along more and being even happier together.
Someone’s Gonna Lose It First (And this is a GOOD Thing) –
Men tend to lose weight faster than women, and for the woman, seeing him lose first can be inspiration that it’s going to happen for her soon. And if it doesn’t happen, well that can motivate her to step up her game to catch up.
So to sum it up, sharing this experience together is twice as easy and less work — but twice the reward!
Our couples have not had one complaint and trust us on regular follow-ups, twice the smiles….
Our Central Mass Fat Loss Deal Saves You Money
If you haven’t heard about the Central Mass Fat Loss Couples Program yet, you are in for a treat (and this one doesn’t contain sugar). Our Couples Program saves your “ready to be healthier” household thousand of dollars versus any competitive programs. Call to factor out your household financial savings..
Luckily for you, we are offering a 10% discount right now as a way of welcoming new clients to see our convenient location in Westborough and to share the benefits of the program itself.
Get in contact with us here to set up a consultation with us.
You will be amazed at what we bring to the table!
Brian Roberts – Director
Central Mass Fat Loss
6 Colonial Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
(508)733-1410 Cell or TextCheck out our website for upcoming events as well as previous posts
For updates and event info, subscribe to our newsletter HERE
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Weight Loss vs Fat Loss
Crash Diets vs. Correct Nutrition
Brian Roberts, your Central Mass Fat Loss Coach here …
People talk about how they want to lose weight, but the truth is … what they should really want to do is LOSE FAT.
Anyone can lose weight. All you have to do is stop eating (please don’t do that – that is what most of those unhealthy crash diets have you do). The point is that yes, you will lose weight, but the weight you lose will be muscle, fat, bone, water, and every other part of your body in an unhealthy fashion. This is reason why it comes back…
The real goal for your “loss” journey should be to preserve as much muscle as possible, or possibly even gain some muscle mass, all while losing as much fat as possible. That way, you’re going to have a much improved body composition. Central Mass Fat loss will accomplish this and we will share how.
What I tell my clients to do is STOP focusing on weight loss ( that is hard to do when your losing close to a pound a day, depending on commitment and personal health starting point) because that just leads to sabotaging any results you might have. And the scale is not the best and only judge of a healthier body. Instead, I give an individualized nutrition plan where the focus is on eating foods that are good for the body, and teaching them to change their eating and lifestyle routine. Once they have been on the program for a specific amount of time, I tell them to focus on how their clothes fit and feel, their strength, endurance, energy, and confidence levels. If these progress markers are improving over our short time and they’re feeling better about themselves, then that’s all the more reason to continue enthusiastically forward to reach our health and fat loss goals.
Another key focus is on building muscle (and yes, it means that you might stay at the same weight for a short period of time, but that can actually be a sign that you are gaining muscle). Our clients typically lose 10 to 15 pounds in the first 21 days, than our bodies will start their adjustments. Our clients lose a very high percentage of fat during our 43 day program. After our first 43 days, we start on maintenance and we are having a really good time incorporating more activity, more foods and feeling really great.
If you go into your journey with the right perspective and you optimize for fat loss and muscle preservation, your goal will be a lot easier to accomplish.
In the end, your Fat loss experience will be more than you thought it would be… but the better picture is that you’ll be leaner, happier, stronger, more energized, eating better foods and more of it, and in a far better healthier frame of mind.
Brian Roberts – Director
Central Mass Fat Loss
340 Main St Suite 855
Worcester, Ma 01608
(508)556-6208 Office
(508)733-1410 Cell or TextCheck out our website for upcoming events as well as previous posts
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