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Repairing a Damaged Metabolism – Part Two
By murray | March 9, 2009
CONSISTENCY IS THE KEY
Nothing will undermine the “re-building” of your metabolism like inconsistency.. If you stop and start, or skip meals 
and workouts often, you will not even get off the ground. After your metabolism is back up where it should be, it takes continued “stoking” of the metabolic furnace to keep it there. Once you get your metabolic engine running, you’ve got to keep feeding it fuel or the fire will die down.
Picture and old fashioned wood burning stove…
Imagine you’re in a cabin up in the mountains in the winter. It’s cold in there and you want to keep the cabin warm. Can you achieve this by feeding the fire once or twice per day? Nope. Not enough fuel to burn, so not much heat is generated. What if you just toss and entire pile of wood in the stove all at once? Will that work? Nope. Lots of fuel, but can’t all b e used at once… it just smothers the fire and the excess just sits there.
How about if you throw some tissue paper or crumpled newspaper in the stove, will that work? Nope — too quickly burning. You have to keep putting small amounts of wood (the right type of fuel) on the fire at regular intervals or the fire burns out. It’s also difficult to get the fire lit again. In the case of metabolism, it’s like going through that initial few weeks of overcoming inertia all over again.
Your goal is to get your metabolism burning hot and keep it burning and this cannot be achieved by missing meals, missing workout or with sporadic, infrequent training.
I have only seen a handful of cases where all these things were done properly and there was still a longer repair process. For example, one case was former ballet dancer. At 5’5″, she was previously 110 lbs and had increased to about 145 or so. She didn’t want to reach her previous 110, but find a happy medium of about 125 lbs.
I figured with 20 lbs to cut, this would be a simple and predictable process, but she had a challenging time (and I didn’t know why at first). I later found out that she had been anorexic and bulimic for many years. This had caused a lot of damage, and although she did reach her goal, it took about twice as long as we had anticipated.
The good new is, even in this extreme case, that same nutrition and training principles worked! It just took a little longer. And by the way her program included some serious training with free weights and she ate a lot more (clean) food than she had ever eaten before. No “starvation”.
That’s the power of burning the fat and feeding the muscles… Trying to starve the fat with crash diets is what causes the metabolic damage in the first place!
If you’re interested in the healthy, sensible way to take off the fat, while keeping all your muscle and actually increasing your metabolism in the process, then my program can teach you how. No gimmicks or false promises. Just the truth – you have to work at it and you have to be patient.
Tom Venuto
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