Towards Understanding Metabolism
Regrettably, many people simply don’t understand the concept of
metabolism and metabolic change. This, equally as regrettably, is hardly
their fault.
There is so much information floating around out there, much of it over
the ‘net or through a “friend of a friend who has a personal trainer”, that
there’s bound to be some confusion and conflicting messages.
Furthermore, many people (quite understandably) mistake their own
weight gain and loss episodes as a matter of metabolic change.
Sometimes this is true, and sometimes it isn’t.
For example, as we will discuss in this book, there are scientific ways to
increase the rate of metabolic change, and thus enable the body to burn
more calories.
Eating certain foods more frequently is one way to do this (again, we look
closer at these in this book). Yet another way to visibly lose weight – at
least on a perceived, temporary level – is to sit in a steam room for a few
hours.
Whereas the former method (eating the right foods) is a real, proven
weight loss method through increased metabolic change, the latter
method (the steam room) is just temporary because the lost weight is
merely water, and will return as swiftly as it “melted away”.