Have you ever lost weight on a diet only to gain it all right back? This is an all too common scenario and the problem often lies in your metabolism.

Extreme dieting puts your body into starvation mode, so your body starts to break down muscle tissue for energy. This is exactly the wrong kind of weight to be losing, since muscle burns calories. If you lose muscle you lose the ability to burn calories.

When the diet is over and you want to go back to eating normally, you start to gain weight, but this time in the form of fat.

Maintain a healthy body composition

Your body is composed of two types of tissues: body fat and lean body mass. The lean body mass is made up of your organs, bone, water and muscle. We can measure these tissues through a test called Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) to gain a more accurate picture of your body composition. When losing weight the question is: are you losing fat, water or muscle? We want to target the fat tissue.

Achieve healthy weight loss

Our goal is to help you reach results that last through healthy body composition. This way as you lose weight you can keep your metabolism going strong.

Another benefit of returning to a healthy body composition? You are also reducing the risk for disease. Diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, arthritis and osteoporosis can all be significantly reduced by proper body composition.

You will receive nutritional advice that is specific to your needs and your progress will be followed using the BIA body composition test. This is not a crash diet; rather it is a healthy way of life that you can keep up for years to come.

If you would like to get started on the right track, call us to book your appointment today.

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