Symptoms of Fat Loss Part 1 (The Drain Effect)

I have talked about this a TON lately with my fat loss clients and board members.

Let's run down real quick and shortly what fat loss is.

Fat loss is the removal of stored body fat from your body. In order to achieve fat loss you need to be in a deficit of energy. Meaning that what it takes to run your body for a day, you need to consume less than. If your body needs 2000 kcal of energy to run and you consume 1500 calories, you are in the negative by 500 calories.

Now let's take away the numbers and think about what that really means.

Your body, in order to function properly, needs a certain amount of energy. One could compare this to say a flashlight. Oh here comes another analogy!!!




A flashlight running on 100% perfect charged batteries shines bright, is lucid, and performs perfectly when needed for a task.

What happens when those batteries start to drain of energy?

The light is less bright, performance is shaky, and the crystal clear stream of light is now muddy.

You know how it is when the batteries are almost dead, you start to bang the flashlight to get those extra jolts of connection just before that moment where the fat lady has sung and no more power.

NOW, imagine your body is that flashlight and as time goes on your batteries are running low. How are you going to feel?

-Less lucid, foggy
-easily emotional
-fatigue
-hunger
-harder to wake up in the morning
-muscle soreness
-sadness

These are not symptoms of overtraining...these are symptoms of fat loss.

Think about it folks, you are removing a physical substance from your body. It was once there and you are trying to make it no more. You might say well I put it on easily taking it away can't be that hard.

Well, when is the last time you glued something? How easy was that to get on? How much of a pain was it to get off?

So just fat loss alone doesn't feel good, it shouldn't feel good, anyone that tells you it will either doesn't know, or doesn't want you to know. That doesn't mean fat loss isn't good for you if you are overweight. Just saying it isn't a walk in the park for the body.

This is why I try to get my clients to lose fat as quick as they can, but as safely as they can. So that The Drain Effect doesn't turn into what we are going to talk about in part two.

(*hint it's not adrenal fatigue*)