Victoria's Body Shoppe

Victoria Johnson Celebrity Trainer Life Coach
VOL. 02/05/07

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Fat Burning Myth!


Dear Victoria,
I have been on a heavy training program for quite a while now and my weight loss was fast at first.  I have dropped 15 pounds so far.  My goal is to lose 25 total pounds.  I am exhausted, at a plateau and the scale is stuck.

I read in a magazine that I needed to burn 3,500 calories to lose a pound of fat. Is that true?

I am so frustrated because I have been training hard, but I can’t seem to lose any more weight.  I want to lose ten more pounds before I buy my wedding dress. 

Can you give me some suggestions to help me kick my body back into fat burning mode. I want to get to my perfect size and maintain it as my new sexy size. 

Help me Victoria, I want to look radiant for my wedding and totally hot for my honeymoon.
-
Kara



Hi
Kara,
Congratulations on your fantastic weight loss and I can sympathize completely with you.  There is nothing worse than training like a maniac, starving yourself and stepping on the scale only to see that you haven’t lost one frickin pound.  It’s enough to make you want to go on a cruise and park a lounger by the dessert table for a week!

FAT BURNING MYTH

Myth: You must burn 3,500 calories to lose 1 pound of fat.

Technically, textbook teaching says that a pound of fat is equal to 3,500 units of energy.  And if you try to apply simple logic, you would think that you could just do some fitness activities that burn 500 calories of fat (energy) seven days in a row. 

While the math says 3,500 calories comprises a pound of fat, the real truth is you have to burn the right 3,500 calories without compromising your basal (base) metabolism! You are probably experiencing that right now.  You are eating like a bird (under eating for your base metabolism) and on top of that training hard, yet not dropping a pound of body-fat.

Overtraining Keeps You Fat

What’s with that crazy math? Overtraining and under eating is a damaging combination. Too few calories and excessive expenditure creates a metabolic meltdown, yielding a slower metabolic rate. This explains how it's possible to exercise like a maniac, yet fail to see a drop in body fat.

DEADLY LIFESTYLE

When I was over sixty pounds heavier, I thought I was healthy and just had big bones.  I worked out all the time and even drank water occasionally. I drank diet soda by the liters and I snacked on nuts.  I was told that nuts were healthy and that was supposed to be a better choice than potato chips.  It would have been a better choice if I had kept the serving size to one ounce instead of half a jar of my favorite peanuts.

Everything I did revolved around food.  My girlfriends and I would get all dressed up in our workout clothes, barely break a sweat and then hit a McDonald’s drive-through. “Sure I’ll have fries with that! I worked out, I deserve it!

One day while I was leading the class, I felt dizzy and disoriented. Ten minutes into the workout I literally fainted. There I was leading a workout class and I dropped to the floor in front of my trusted followers. When I came to, I thought they were kidding.   Some of the class members in the group actually asked me to get on my feet and continue class before their heart rates went down! It was then I realized that maybe these people were not my true friends.  To me true friends help you heal, not keep you sick.

YOU BECOME THAT WHICH YOU EMBRACE

Maybe I was not as important to them as I had thought. The realization hurt me deeply as I had finally felt like I belonged with their group. A group of people who lived to eat instead of learning how to eat to live.  They thrived on all of us being the same overweight, excuse making, unhealthy emotionally starved women. 

My blackout incident prompted me to go see a doctor. I went to an endocrinologist, a doctor who treats people who have endocrine gland problems such as diabetes.  My diagnosis was dreadful and if I did not change my behaviors, clean up my diet and customize my workouts then it would surely lead to a fatal outcome.  Here is what the doctor told me I had created in my body:

  • Clinically Obese
  • Type 2 Diabetes
  • Digestive disorders (from overuse of laxatives)
  • Hypoglycemia – Low Blood Sugar
  • High Blood Pressure
  • High triglycerides
  • High Cholesterol
  • Severe Water Retention
  • Anxiety/Panic disorder

NEW LIFE NEW BODY

Kara, what I had done was turn my body into a fat building machine.  I had taught my body to operate on low fuel and heavy exercise.  Your body will adapt to any conditions if stressed long enough. That’s part of the reason why you have to continually mix up your training and do different workouts.  It keeps your body guessing and you can boost your metabolic system.

Did you know that eating the wrong food at the wrong time can cause your body to move into fat storing mode and no matter how much exercise you do... you can't stop it without scientifically redesigning your diet and training regime.  You can eat the wrong food and it can dump insulin into to your system, which overloads it.  Too much insulin, caused from eating a high simple carbohydrate diet, is the primary cause of many diseases such as high cholesterol, high blood sugar levels, heart disease, hypertension, gout, diabetes, obesity, plus many more.

Kara, slow down on your workouts today and stop the cycle of abusing your body today. Let me show you how to step up your fat loss while you let your body rest.

Your metabolism can be your best friend or your worst enemy! You have the know what to eat and when to eat it to get your metabolism to work for you and burn that unwanted "energy" in order to have Unlimited Energy! By the way... Don't ever let anyone tell you that you are fat... You just have a lot of ENERGY! And now it's time to start using it!

That is why you must look at your carbohydrate intake and make sure you are diligent about drinking four quarts of water every single day of the week.

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WAY COOL WAY TO LOSE

I had to learn how to completely restructure my eating program. 

Kara, if you want to stop killing yourself at the gym but still lose fat from your thighs, abs and butt, you have to look at a low-carb lifestyle and you will become an expert at fat burning and you will master your eating style.  This is a movement that gotten so big it has crossed the Atlantic and is going global.

LIVING Low-Carb

This is what makes Low-Carb so cool.  On a low-carb lifestyle it’s not necessary to count calories.  You have a great deal of food choices and you really get to eat all you want of the recommended foods, as often as you want, in order to prevent hunger. Don't stuff yourself; just eat until you're no longer hungry. Remember, there is a difference between being hungry and having an appetite. Hunger means your body needs more food, so you need to eat.

Having an appetite means you have the feeling that you want to eat, whether your body needs more food or not.  When you eat the right foods that satisfy your appetite and balance your blood sugar, you feel full longer, you have more energy and your jeans fit better.  Hallelujah!

ONE SUGAR

Most of your life your body has been subjected to high "doses" of sugar, in the form of sugary drinks, sugary snacks, sugary cereals, refined carbohydrates in white bread, chips, boxed foods and other forms of processed foods. Your body recognizes only one carbohydrate- sugar. All carbohydrates you eat, except fiber, are converted into sugar.

Eating a diet that is over 60% simple carbohydrates means that most of what you eat is sugar. That type of diet is completely unhealthy and nutritionally unbalanced. The main purpose of a low-carb eating plan is to bring your body chemistry and insulin sensitivity back into balance which helps your body enter into a state of fat burning. To do that, you must eat a diet that is perfectly balanced thus away from the way you have been eating for years.

RESTORED HEALTH

This is exactly what I had to do to get that sixty plus pounds off life sapping fat off my body.  Too much fat on your body is not just unsightly to the eyes; it is deadly to your health and your dreams.  As I started to get the fat off, my blood chemistry became balanced which stopped my mood swings, decreased my blood pressure, eliminated fatigue and my energy levels got so high, I felt like a twelve year old again.

FATTEN UP YOUR PLAN

I found that on this fantastic new plan, I could actually eat more fats. When I was going through my old extreme fat free diet days, I would not eat any fat, so I was always hungry and my skin started to chafe ad dry out. When you follow a good plan you need to eat some fat to assist your body in achieving a good healthy balance.

Even though consuming fat is necessary for you to be healthy and your eating plan to be balanced, try to limit consumption of trans-fats (margarine and shortening). Good fats include olive oil, flax seed oil, canola oil, oils found in nuts, and also real butter. Most fats should be the monounsaturated and saturated fats. Avoid the polyunsaturated fats when possible, except for those containing the essential omega-3 fatty acids contained in fish.

Don’t get afraid of all the hype about low-carb being bad.   A low-carb lifestyle is not necessarily a high protein diet. It's an adequate protein diet. It's an eating plan that has a protein, complex carbohydrates and healthy fat.

Kara, here’s the wrap up to break your plateau and get that scale to dropping again.

First of all: Eliminate just 250-300 calories a day from your diet. In 12 days, you'll drop a pound. Or, without cutting calories, expend an extra 300 calories a day for 10 days and you'll be close to 3,500.

Here are some other tips:

1.    Cut out all refined carbohydrates

2.     Increase your water intake to four quarts a day

3.    Mack out on low-Carb free, high fiber vegetables

4.    Don’t eat any carbohydrates after six PM

5.    Train smart with your cardio, but don’t push into the injury zone

Since your body is adjusting to your new weight, it will take some concentrated effort to break through this plateau.  Stay committed and be diligent with your plan and the stall will pass and you will kick your body back into a weight loss fat burning mode.  It usually takes about 7-10 days for the breakthrough.  So be patient.  Many times you won’t see a difference on the scales for a period of time and then, suddenly you lose a few pounds overnight.

Kara, There you go.  Check your food and rest. Follow the tips and get into the low-carb lifestyle so that you will be radiant for your wedding and hot for the after party.

Have a blessed life with your new hubby! 

God Bless and make it the
Best Week Ever!


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Healthy Recipe

Jambalaya Salad

Makes 16 to 20 servings

Ingredients:
      1/3  cup olive oil
      2  teaspoons finely shredded orange peel
      1/3  cup orange juice
      1/4  cup lemon juice
      1  tablespoon fresh or dried thyme, crushed
      4  cloves garlic, minced
      1/2  teaspoon salt
      1/2  teaspoon red pepper flakes
      1/4  teaspoon ground black pepper
      2  cups long grain or brown rice
      4  cups water
      1/8  teaspoon salt
      1  pound cooked shrimp
      1  tablespoon olive oil
      2  large onions, chopped (2 cups)
      2  medium tomatoes, chopped (about 1-1/3 cups)
      2  15-ounce cans black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained (optional)
      2  medium green, red, and/or yellow sweet peppers, chopped (1-1/2
          cups)

Directions
      1. In a screw-top jar, combine the 1/3 cup olive oil, the orange peel, orange juice, lemon juice, thyme, garlic, the 1/2 teaspoon salt, the red pepper flakes, and black pepper. Cover and shake dressing well. Use
immediately or chill. Shake again before using.

      2. Combine rice, water and the 1/8 teaspoon salt in a large saucepan. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat; rinse rice well with cool water. Drain and set aside.

      3. Bias-slice sausage into 1/2-inch pieces. In a large skillet, brown sausage over medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Drain off fat. Remove sausage from skillet. Add the 1 tablespoon oil to skillet; cook onion in hot oil until tender, stirring occasionally.

      4. Combine shrimp, tomato, black-eyed peas, sweet pepper, and parsley in a very large bowl. Add the dressing; toss well. Cover and chill for at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours.

Nutrition facts per serving:
      calories: 277
      total fat: 7g
      saturated fat: 2g
      carbohydrate: 33g
      fiber: 4g
      protein: 13g

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