RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

Watch this brief clip from the current season of NBC's Biggest Loser. Jillian Michaels & Bob Harper discuss how to keep the white team in the competition, because one of the contestants weighs over 500lbs. Their solution: have him eat ONLY 800cal/day and cut all carbs.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/120252/the-biggest-loser-week-2---trainers-desperation

***Eating under 1000cal/day is dangerous for anybody let alone someone over 500lbs! It will shut off your metabolism, which means:
1) Your body will barely burn calories,
2) Your body will hold onto your body fat (stored energy/cal) for a future energy reserve,
3) Anything you do consume will be automatically stored as fat,
4) Your body will begin burning muscle for fuel.

This show is only concerned with dropping the number on the scale, which starving yourself will do, but if you're not losing body fat who cares what the scale says. Body fat is where heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer comes from.

Cutting carbs completely which is your body's preferred source of energy will leave you exhausted, and is a quick fix for losing "weight" in a short amount of time. Most of that is water weight, because one gram of carbs carries about 4oz of water, so when you return to eating carbs you will gain all the weight back.

Be careful of everything that you read & watch about exercise & nutrition because it may not be true and possibly harmful to you.***