The art and science of weight loss

Weight loss; as simple as eating less and exercising more? Good question!

Graeme Jones has the answers…

An overweight client walks into my office; let’s say they have a BMI of 28 and their body fat level is 8% higher than they desire.

Do I recommend that eat less an exercise more? In some cases, yes, but in reality this is something I have recommended very few times in last couple of years. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I said this to a client. Clients are often coming to me with years of dieting under their belts, no pun intended, with dysfunctional metabolism and system-wide clinical and sub-clinical problems. Looking through food and exercise diaries kept over weeks and calculating calories often shows a calorie deficit, yet no weight loss, so what’s happening here?

Truth or lies?

Maybe the client is lying? Yes, this could be the case and maybe they are eating more than what they are reporting. I generally assume that most clients are underreporting what is actually going into their body; I think this is human nature. Ask any doctor on alcohol unit calculations and they will always add more to what the patient reports.

However, lets assume the client is telling the truth for this discussion. Why clients lie is a whole other subject.

The physiology of fat loss

For a number of reasons the physiology is primed not to burn fat, or to lose fat weight, and the challenge is reversing this for both the confidence and health of the client. The question is where do you start?

Many questions immediately come to mind; is the client balancing their blood sugar? What’s their stress level like? How is their thyroid functioning? Do they have a dysbiosis? How is their krebs cycle functioning? How is their liver working? How much are they sleeping, what is the quality? Are they self-sabotaging? Where are their insulin levels? Cortisol, oestrogen, testosterone? What is the balance of their autonomic nervous system like?

These are just some of the questions that will help to answer why a client is unable to loose body fat. The next question is how do you then measure each one of these, where do you start and what do you do with the information to help the client start moving towards their goal?

Want to help your clients lose weight?

Graeme Jones’ course, Success strategies for weight loss and management, addresses these very questions and is full of useful information that practitioners can use straight away to benefit their clients. The course also provides you with an understanding of tests you can use with your clients to help guide them to lasting results.

To learn more, book on and develop your understanding of the art and science to weight loss.

28th June 2015, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

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