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The Nutriguard Leanness Program (NLP) is a safe and novel lifestyle strategy that promotes rapid fat loss by integrating optimal exercise training with proper food choices and “hepatothermic” nutritional supplementation. The intent of NLP is to maximize your body’s utilization of stored fat, in the context of a low-fat diet. If you burn more fat each day than you ingest from your diet, you will go into “negative fat balance” until your body reaches a new leaner equilibrium. (Contrary to popular belief, very little ingested carbohydrate is converted to fat in the body; thus, most of the fat in your body derives directly from diet. However, excessive intakes of the wrong types of carbohydrate can block weight loss by inhibiting fat burning.)
A key goal of NLP is to maximize your body’s utilization of stored fat during and for at least several hours following aerobic exercise. This is achieved by nesting each exercise session within a 12-14 hour “mini-fast”, as described below. Although this may sound difficult, your appetite will be well controlled in the hours following exercise if you have exercised and supplemented properly.
An additional key strategy for promoting selective fat burning is to minimize your daily insulin secretion – within the context of a low-fat diet. This is achieved by choosing lower-glycemic-index carbohydrate foods, and by aiding efficient insulin function in skeletal muscle with regular exercise and a low-fat diet. Thus, the NLP recommends food choices that are low in both glycemic index and fat content. In marked contrast to many programs that purport to achieve rapid weight loss, you will be getting a high proportion of your daily calories from whole carbohydrate-rich foods, high in fiber and nutritional value.
In addition to reducing your body fat level, this program will help to correct the “fat poisoning” that underlies “insulin resistance syndrome”, a common metabolic problem that greatly increases risk for vascular diseases and certain common cancers.
1. Aerobic Exercise during a “Mini-Fast”
- Pick the time of day that is convenient and most congenial for you to exercise: in the morning, mid-day, or evening.
- If you choose to exercise in the morning, you should skip breakfast – no meals or snacks in the morning until lunch.
- If you choose to exercise in mid-day, you should skip lunch – no meals or snacks between breakfast and dinner. (Some call this the “Ramadan option”, since during the month of Ramadan, Moslems fast between sun-up and sun-down.)
- If you choose to exercise in the evening, you should eat a very early dinner – by five, or as soon as you can get home from work. You should avoid any meals or snacks in the evening after your dinner. Your exercise should be done at least 2 hours after dinner, when your insulin levels have returned to a fasting level. After exercise, don’t eat or snack for the remainder of the evening.
