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You’ve cut those unwanted pounds from your frame. Congratulations! Now what? Decelerate your diet and accelerate in the gym, suggests a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Researchers had 125 young adults who had just lost more than 8 percent of their total weight follow one of three maintenance diets. One provided a moderate amount of fat, the second called for 20 to 30 percent fat, and those on the third took in 35 percent of calories as fat. Interestingly, all the dieters regained up to 8 pounds within six months.
The bottom line: If you’ve just lost weight, don’t rely on diet alone to keep those unwanted pounds at bay. It's simply not enough, no matter what kind of maintenance diet you follow.
The simple and effective way to keep burning fat is to closely chart your caloric intake and then determine how much you should exercise in order to maintain your goal weight, or exercise more to boost your metabolism and burn more fat.
http://www.coreperformance.com/daily/news/the-secret-to-long-term-weight-loss.html
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