How to lose weight by going into debt

June 25, 2018 Ashley 0 Comments

Have you hit the dreaded weight loss wall?

Just in time for summer?

(It’s okay, girl. Keep reading to get there quicker…)

I get it. Those stubborn final five to twenty-five pounds just won’t go. And, as a result, you’re buying every bottle’ve snake oil that makes its way onto your social media feed. Wraps. Waist trainers. Glitter filled pills promising to turn you into a coke bottle by nightfall. And, before you know it, your bank account’s a lot lower than planned – but your scale number’s not. So what do you do? Aside from following a clean, mostly green, highly hydrated diet? Well, the good news is you don’t hafta massacre your budget to budge that scale. Because the kind’ve debt we need isn’t to do with doling out dollars.

It’s to do with oxygen.

See, you’ve probably read at least eleventy hundred articles on here (written by me) referencing the wonder that is HIIT. (AKA high intensity interval training.) Why? Because it causes an oxygen debt in your body. Sounds awful. Feels awful. But the result? Awesome. Sounds counter-intuitive doesn’t it? Oxygen’s something we require to respire – especially when we’re working out. So why would we wanna send ourselves into a deficit of this good stuff?

Simply put, because it burns more calories.

See, while you’re still working out, your red blood cells are the couriers of oxygen. They take it all over your body to keep your limbs wiggling. But, when your bod’s writing stamina checks that your blood cells can’t cash fast enough, something happens. Lactic acid gets released to keep your bod from hitting the brakes on your workout. There’s not enough oxygen, so lactic acid’s stepping up like some cruddy substitute (that’s gonna have you walking like a cowboy tomorrow). Not enough oxygen equals lactic acid. The upside? For all the soreness it’s causing, there’s a benefit to that lactic acid. Fastforward to tonight (when you’re enjoying an evening of well warranted torpor after a badazz workout), and let’s zoom in to see what’s transpiring at the cellular level. There you are, all full’ve lactic acid. And where’d it come from? That leftover lo mein you mindlessly munched in front’ve the fridge yesterday morning? Kinda. According to Professor Thomas D. Fahey of California State University, per Fitnessblackbook: “The body converts glucose, a substance removed from the blood only sluggishly, to lactate, a substance removed and used rapidly… Using lactic acid as a carbohydrate middleman helps you [metabolize] carbohydrates from your diet, without increasing insulin or stimulating fat synthesis.” You know how they say it’s “really hard” to burn off stored fat? Well, that’s what they mean. You gotta suck the sugar from your blood and use sweaty sorcery to morph it into an oxygen substitute via intense exercise. That’s the “really hard” part. But it also makes for hard bodies and fatter bank accounts that aren’t going anorexic over thinspo gizmos that don’t work.

(When your friends post fat memes this summer but you can’t relate ’cause you worked hard and look bomb AF)

So, instead’ve getting gadgets that send you into financial debt, send yourself into oxygen debt.

And get the weight loss and body you want this summer.