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Fat Loss without Cutting Calories

Did you know it’s actually possible to lose fat without a calorie deficit?

It’s all about timing. The correct timing refers to certain situations when our body is more inclined to burn fat rather than carbohydrates or protein, such as when glycogen levels (muscles sugar reserves) are low and the body is forced to use greater amounts of fat for fuel. Timing can be applied to other aspects involved in the fat loss process, such as nutrition and meal frequency as well as exercising. Correct timing is the key to fat loss and there are a number of ways we can use timing to our advantage. The best exercise for each body type at the right time, a pyramid style of calories ingested during a day, the correct macro nutrient ratio for each meal and meal frequency are more examples of timing which can boost fat loss without the necessity of reducing calorie intake. With the right timing you can tap into stored fat much quicker.

What about all the advice to consume fewer calories?

I am not saying that all the normal advice we hear is incorrect. It is sound advice but a calorie deficit is still needed to lose WEIGHT. Weight loss and fat loss are two separate entities, and its fat loss dieters really need in order to change body composition for the best. When concentrating on merely losing weight can cause false results, the weight loss will be made up of various components; water, muscle, glycogen as well as some body fat. How much fat is lost through a calorie deficit alone will depend on many factors; percentage of calorie deficit, exercise frequency, body type, nutritional intake, macronutrient ratios, etc. These are just a few things to consider, but the fact is most dieters tend to lose far too much muscle when cutting calories. Muscle wastage means a loss of more water weight than stored body fat, and this is often the reason why many dieters develop a reduced metabolism within a month or so. A
slow metabolism stops further weight loss and is partly why you may gain back the weight after a diet.

Fat Loss Timing

As an example of the importance of timing think about the situation if doing a weights session and a cardio session in the same workout, which exercise is done first?

I believe you should always do weights first, why?
Weight training is classed as an anaerobic exercise so it burns a larger percentage of carbohydrates for fuel. If you did cardio first you will deplete muscle glycogen stores simply because there is plenty at the beginning of a workout and the body prefers this energy source. Now due to low glycogen stores the weights session will now be below the intensity of what is required to build or tone muscle, and without more muscle you won’t increase the metabolism.

By doing weights first you have enough carbohydrate stores (glycogen) to train well and boost the metabolism, also a good weights session will deplete the glycogen levels which sets the optimum TIME to burn more fat through the cardio session. This is where timing is really important, and in this case you would have a net loss of stored body fat without a calorie deficit.

Another example of timing is eating your highest calorie meal after a workout. This is because our metabolism is slightly elevated for up to 2 hours after training, all the enzymes which work to absorb and store nutrients are extremely active, therefore all energy present in the meal will more than likely be used up for recovery and less chance any fat will be stored on the hips. This is also the best time to indulge in “bad” foods if you have trouble with any cravings. Obviously you just make sure not to overdo it as you don’t want to undo all efforts of the workout.

Timing is the Key to accelerated Fat Loss

The right timing for exercise, meals and carbohydrate intake is a real advantage for losing body fat. In fact many bodybuilders use timing to help strip most fat from the physique a few months before a show. The only disadvantage is timing alone may take a considerable amount of time for those who need to lose a large amount of body fat. However many overweight people can use both a slight calorie deficit AND timing to help speed up the process of losing a large amount of stored body fat, it just takes a little knowledge and effort to implement certain principles. It’s too difficult to simply state how to implement timing tricks because each person will have a different set of circumstances. You need the knowledge in order to adapt the principles for your own body type, eating habits, exercise ability, fitness and lifestyle.

Losing fat weight over just weight loss is the most important aspect of permanent weight control, there are numerous ways we can trick our body into burning a greater amount of body fat, but some techniques need to be learned and tested. Losing weight is relatively easy but losing stored body fat is a science which requires the use of important principles adapted to individual requirements.

Wayne Mcgregor has written hundreds of articles on ways to lose weight. His website provides tons of free weight loss information and help.

http://www.weightlossforall.com

New Deal or Raw Deal How FDRs Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

New Deal or Raw Deal How FDRs Economic Legacy Has Damaged America




A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression — and are still hurting America today.

In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt created New Deal programs marked by inconsistent planning, wasteful spending, and opportunity for political gain — ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America so desperately needed from the Great Depression. Folsom takes a critical, revisionist look at Roosevelt’s presidency, his economic policies, and his personal life.

Elected in 1932 on a buoyant tide of promises to balance the increasingly uncontrollable national budget and reduce the catastrophic unemployment rate, the charismatic thirty-second president not only neglected to pursue those goals, he made dramatic changes to federal programming that directly contradicted his campaign promises. Price fixing, court packing, regressive taxes, and patronism were all hidden inside the alphabet soup of his popular New Deal, putting a financial strain on the already suffering lower classes and discouraging the upper classes from taking business risks that potentially could have jostled national cash flow from dormancy. Many government programs that are widely used today have their seeds in the New Deal. Farm subsidies, minimum wage, and welfare, among others, all stifle economic growth — encouraging decreased productivity and exacerbating unemployment.

Roosevelt’s imperious approach to the presidency changed American politics forever, and as he manipulated public opinion, American citizens became unwitting accomplices to the stilted economic growth of the 1930s. More than sixty years after FDR died in office, we still struggle with the damaging repercussions of his legacy.

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4 Stars One of many Must Reads for New Deal
I read the book.

I thought it was revealing and showed how FDR

thought and operated. Does anyone doubt that FDR did a lot

of things with reelection in mind? In 1938 unemployment was

still over 20%. Eight years of New Deal had little to nothing

to show as mentioned in the Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau quote:

“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than

we have ever spent before and it does not work. …

After eight years of this Administration, we have just as

much unemployment as when we started ….”

Folsom’s review of the current literature on the New Deal

and FDR is informative. He points to Leuchtenburg and others as

the standard histories of the New Deal and suggests that they

paint a biased picture of FDR. He questions whether these

historians have let their political ideology guide their writings.

It has become a standard trait of historians to embed

their viewpoints in the presentation. They let their political

philosopy guide the story. That is also true of Folsom. The saving grace

of Folsom is that he lists extentsive references to the facts he

presents and references some the opposing viewpoints. Furthermore, he is

readable. If you want to understand the New Deal you must read this

book. However, once you have read it you won’t understand the New Deal.

It seems to fully understand the New Deal, there is not a single book

to be read that can be trusted. What must be done is to read many of

them and only then, come to your own conclusions. Folsom provides an extensive list of references for those who wish to learn more.

5 Stars FDR’s Folly
This book is great. It is also very scary as it sure sounds like the current administration is trying the same or very similar tactics to control the entire economy from Washington. Collectivism then and now. Government trying to nationalize banks and businesses then as well as now. Federal government trying to redistribute the wealth by taxes and/or “assistance” to people who the they believe haven’t gotten “a good deal out of life” even if they made personal decisions that lead to their problems. I am recommending this book to all my friends as a must read if they value the capitalist system and don’t want this country to become a socialist democracy.

5 Stars Couldn’t put it down
Folsom’s research was extensive, his arguments logical and lucid, and his writing fluid. I sprinted through this book; it was like candy.

While the causes of the Great Depression are complicated, Folsom presents a compelling argument for three factors being the most significant: (1) most importantly the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill instituted the highest tariffs in US history and the accompanying retaliatory tariffs devastated US exports. Especially hard hit were US farmers. The stock market of the period can be seen to track very closely to the perceived fate of the bill as it worked its way through congress. (2) A ballooning debt from 1.3 Billion to 24 B in just 3 years following WWI (over half of which was in the form of loans to our war time allies). These loans were repudiated after Smoot-Hawley on the reasoning that if the US wouldn’t let European countries trade with them, then how could they raise the cash to repay it? (3) The poor performance of the Federal Reserve. At a time of shrinking money supplies when banks were failing, the Fed actually raised interest rates instead of lowering them to get money to cash hungry banks.

FDR’s own theory about the cause of the depression was the over consumption theory. In a nutshell, this was the theory that with the prosperity of the 20’s came a deepening divide of wealth among rich and poor (the old `the rich get richer and the poor get poorer’ canard). It was a belief in this theory that was the genesis of many of his economic policies. Folsom clearly demonstrates why the theory is false and why today’s economists reject it.

The author gives a very good analysis of the major (and some minor) new deal programs and shows how, mostly through their unintended consequences, led to a deterioration of economic conditions. One such example is when the AAA tried to boost crop prices by limiting production, it led directly to the evection of tenants from southern cotton plantations.

“When cotton growers were paid to remove as much as 40% of their land from cultivation, they set aside their worst acreage and expelled the tenant farmers who were often farming that less desirable land.”

The book also discusses how FDR’s less that sterling character (his deceptions, irrationality, vindictiveness, and his use of massive amounts of government resources to reward friends and punish political enemies) created a great deal of consternation, not just among his opponents, but among his most loyal inner circle as well. As Professor Ray Moley (a member of his Brains Trust and speechwriter for FDR) wrote in his journal:

“I was impressed as never before be the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things he was talking about, by the gross inaccuracies in his statements, by the almost pathological lack of sequence in his discussion, by the complete rectitude that he felt was his own conduct, by the immense and growing egotism that came from his office, by his willingness to continue the excoriation of the press and business in order to get votes for himself, by his indifference to what effect the long continued pursuit of these ends would have upon the civilization in which he was playing a part. In other words, the political habits of his mind were working full steam with the added influence of a swollen ego. My deliberate impression is that he is dangerous in the extreme, and I view the next four years with no inconsiderable apprehension.”

While this passage is particularly telling, it was by no means a uniquely critical view among his advisors and cabinet members. Several had very troubling reservations about their boss.

FDR’s tenure as president was not entirely without merit, however. His creation of the SEC was helpful (even if a bit heavy handed in its first years). And he also eventually got around to undoing some of the disastrous trade policies of the Hoover administration.

1 Star A Complete Waste Of Time And Money
This is Conservative revisionist history at it’s worst.

If you are one of Rush Limbaugh’s DittoBots or a worshiper of the Ayn Rand cult, this book is definitely for you. All of your preconceived notions will be reinforced and validated without any pesky things like “facts” or “reality” to get in the way of your Free-market Love Fest.

However, if you are a serious student of history or government policy, look elsewhere as this is not a scholarly work but rather a work of fiction designed to pander to an audience that prefers ideological orthodoxy to real historical inquiry.

Sadly, zero stars wasn’t an option, so it gets one.

1 Star Read “FDR” by Jean Edward Smith
If you want an honest history of FDR and the New Deal, this is not the place to get it. A few counterpoints:

* Of course many of FDR’s programs were struck down as unconstitutional. The country was going through a depression and drastic measures were needed to extricate it. Of the numerous programs that FDR implemented, it would be surprising if a few did not overstep constitutional boundaries. And given the scope of federal government, there will always been examples of absurd rules or regulations even in carefully written policies.

* Of course the New Deal was expensive. But it was necessary to dig the country out of the depression. FDR was arguably not bold enough. As the country began to recover, he cut back on spending, then we slid back into recession only to recover because of WWII.

* The New Deal is historically noted for the *lack* of corruption that occurred during its implementation. Given the amount of money the federal government was doling out, the administration knew that it could only maintain its credibility with the public if corruption was kept at a minimum. The WPA is hailed by mainstream historians as a model of effective government. The amount of federal funds that were estimated to have been lost to corruption or graft were minimal. This is possibly the most successful aspect of the New Deal.

If you want to read a book that makes you feel better about being a Republican, read this book. If you want an honest history of the New Deal, read something else.

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4 Stars Good
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