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essential fuels it needs to continue life. That’s kind of disgusting and more than a little disconcerting to know how key lean muscle is to burning fat,as well as to keep you structurally fit and able to move with ease and energy through each day.
    FAST METABOLISM FACT
    Starving yourself does terrible things to your muscles. You know that feeling you get when you’re hungry, but don’t eat? At some point, you stop being hungry, right? You sure do, but it’s not because you didn’t eat. You
did
eat. Your body turned to its own tissues for fuel.
    This would be great if your body just cannibalized all the excess fat in all the places you don’t want it to be. But unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. Instead, the body goes for the muscle first. Because fat is stored for emergencies, your body considers snacking on your own muscle tissue as a preferable option. Yum, bicep sandwich!
    Yes, muscle is considered more expendable. Your body’s just doing what it thinks is best to keep you alive, yet the result can be devastating for someone trying to lose fat and build muscle. Wouldn’t it be better to have a real snack?
    Is all that really worth skipping a meal for? And do you really want to fear eating even lettuce—or worse, living only on it—for the rest of your life?
METABOLIC MYTH #2: IF I LIKE IT TOO MUCH, IT CAN’T BE GOOD FOR ME … OR MY WAISTLINE
    Historically, dieting is about refraining, by limiting portions, forbidding specific types of foods, and reducing or changing the times of eating. Most of my obese clients who are victims of extreme dieting never get toenjoy their food. They eat bland foods and repeat a lot of the same boring meals; often these are (in the case of so-called diet foods) devoid of the nutrients that boost the feel-good hormones in your body that keep you satisfied and vitalized. Not only do they end up hungry, but they’re also bored and depressed. Dieting can be such an isolating experience.
    Life just isn’t as much fun without delicious food. Eating that way isrestrictive, it is dull, and it certainly isn’t effective, because your natural food-sensing system gets all messed up. So another thing the Fast Metabolism Diet is going to do is to encourage you to use all of your senses in a positive way, to help stimulate your metabolism again and be social and create a community around your new way of eating.Pleasure is powerful and stimulates the secretion ofendorphins, reduces stress hormones, increases the metabolism—and it helps fat burn!
PLEASURE: NATURE’S METABOLISM BOOSTER
    Stress triggers the metabolism to slow down, and the system senses an emergency and goes into fat-storage mode. Stress can also increase cortisol and minimize thethyroid hormone’seffect on the metabolism. Pleasure has just the opposite effect. When you take pleasure in the food you eat, you actually work with nature to speed things up. And bonus: you won’t need to overeat.
    Pleasure stimulates the metabolism by triggering the adrenals to produce endorphins. These endorphins—what we know as the feel-good brain messengers—stimulate the brain to produceserotonin, a mood-elevating brain hormone that in turn stimulates the thyroid to produce thefat-burning hormone. Talk about a chain reaction.
    Pleasure sets off a terrific cascade of events that lowerleptin levels, a hormone that makes you hungry. After sex, your leptin levels are lowest. Taking pleasure in food can have the same effect. When you enjoy what you eat, you get a double benefit: you are satisfied and full.
    Something else powerful happens when you step away from self-loathing and guilt and enjoy the food you’re eating: you start to take better care of yourself. The pleasure, joy, and excitement about your food translates into pleasure and joy and excitement in the choices you make about your food and how you live your life in general.
    A client recently sent me this actual text: “I had so much pleasure and excitement tonight! May