Traditional Diet vs Body Taskforce Flame
How the traditional diet fails
The local authority health profile is a publicly visible online resource, one of the criteria of this publication is the percentage of adults aged 18+ classed as obese or overweight in the county. The figure for South Kesteven is astonishing.
If you wish to take a step on the road to weight loss for health benefits start by cutting sugar and salt out of your daily diet. Eat regular meals, the old saying ‘little and often’ is a great rule to stick with and lastly exercise regularly.
Excessive salt intake will force your body to store water in order to dilute the sodium. Salt is also a major factor which can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. The effect of salt intake is therefore to hold onto bad toxins in the body as it is unable to flush water and detox.
Sugar is thought to be one of the main causes for weight gain worldwide. Consuming high sugar foods will give you in basic terms ‘a high’ as it is released into the blood quickly promoting a spike in blood sugar levels. The hit received will soon fade away though as insulin guides the sugars away from the blood and into the cells. The body then feels it requires energy once more and the next hit is taken. This causes people to over-consume sugary foods and put on weight. Cutting sugar can increase your mood, provide you with more energy to train with and improve your sleep quality.
The body is designed to detect a lack of food as starvation, in response our BMR slows down to prevent us from consuming further calories. This causes our body to store food and slow down its metabolic rate, the rate in which the body burns calories. This can prove a difficult change for people who wish to follow a health and fitness lifestyle as you have to train yourself to think of every meal as the same amount of intake. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and the meals in between Body Taskforce enforce on our programme are the same size.
Exercise is a major player in any weight loss programme. It has been proven to help with anxiety and depression as it produces endorphins. Endorphins are chemicals in the brain that act as natural painkillers and improve the ability to sleep, which in turn reduces stress. Getting regular exercise will improve the strength of muscles, joints and assist with stronger bones. Regular exercise reduces your risk of high blood pressure (hypertension), coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and some cancers, helps manage your weight and the risk of becoming obese. On top of all this it also contributes to weight loss and feeling positive about yourself.
There are many types of exercises, we are not asking you to start lifting heavy weights in the gym and bodybuilding. Body Taskforce run a 90-day health and fitness programme called Flame. We encourage people to lose weight through natural healthy eating and mostly body weight exercises with the inclusion of a few products to enhance the workout experience. Following the programme will help you to sculpt the body naturally and enjoy the health rewards.
Those who sign-up for Flame will learn to cook healthy meals from scratch using our meal guide and understand how to substitute sugar and salt with other herbs/spices and natural foods to encourage protein and carbohydrate intake in every meal and learn that certain foods are worth their weight in gold.
Flame provides weekly challenges with a full video tutorial you can follow to learn exercises which will enhance your physique and mind plus daily workouts you can perform anywhere which will strengthen your core, glutes and chest.
To assist your programme, we provide a closed Facebook group where the Flame sign-ups can share videos/posts and encourage one another as a community. This helps with the team spirit and promotes encouragement to succeed.
Flame costs only £89.00 for 90 days, a gender-neutral programme meaning you can have your partner do the programme alongside you for encouragement as the programme is a one-size fits all!
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