The Metabolism Reset Diet summary

How is it that everyone around you seems to eat so much more than you and yet ends up so much slimmer? What are they doing right that you’re not?

If you swallow what diet fads and health media are preaching, you might think that your struggles with your weight and health are your own fault.

Sadly, overweight people constantly receive social messages that they’re doing something wrong. They’re told: you eat too much! You don’t exercise enough! You’re not trying hard enough!

But, you’ve been led to believe a lie. People who are naturally thin are not more disciplined than you, nor do they eat less than you. Their advantage is not superior will-power – it’s their metabolism.

The key message here is: The key to rapid and sustained weight loss is a healthy metabolism.

The word metabolism gets thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean?

It’s actually very simple. Metabolism just refers to the way your body responds to incoming fuel – meaning your main calorie sources such as fats and carbohydrates.

When your metabolism is healthy, incoming fuel either gets burned immediately for energy, or it’s put into short-term storage to be used later. Our metabolism is remarkably useful because we never consume exactly the right amount of fuel at any one time. By storing excess fuel at mealtimes, and burning it later, our metabolisms smooth the release of energy throughout the day.

When your metabolism isn’t working properly, your body is unable to make use of incoming fuel for energy and is forced to put it into long-term storage – that is to say, body fat. That means you’ll gain weight, but it also means you’ll suffer from chronic fatigue and other health ailments because your body isn’t getting energy from the fuel you eat.

That’s why diets that focus solely on limiting calorie consumption miss the core problem – the way your body deals with those calories. It doesn’t matter if you eat a high-calorie diet if your body is able to burn most of it for energy.

But what can you do about your metabolism? You’re either born with a good one or a bad one, right?

Wrong! This is yet another myth about weight loss. In fact, your metabolism isn’t fixed, and there are some simple steps you can take to encourage it to become more active again.

The answer isn’t an extreme, self-denying diet. The answer is in the liver. To understand why, let’s take a closer look at this marvelous organ.