Flex Weight Loss Plan
Calla Flex – Intermittent Fasting Weight Loss Program
Lose Weight, Feel Great With Our Flex Intermittent Fasting Diet Plan in Orlando
We’ve helped thousands of Orlando residents lose weight and feel great with our medical weight loss program and now we’ve added another weight loss program, the Calla Flex Intermittent Fasting Diet Program, to give you another options to choose from when it comes to helping you lose weight, get healthy and feel great!
While our traditional weight loss program is very successful by focusing on eating often, very low calorie and low glycemic foods, there are other schools of thought on how weight loss can be achieved and maintained which is why we developed the Calla Flex Program. Meanwhile, the success of any diet can be measured by how closely people can follow the rules of the diet and how long they can maintain caloric restriction. Prolonged caloric restriction is the only proven nutritional method of weight loss. Intermittent fasting is currently one of the most popular health, fitness and weight-loss trends and for good reason. Lastly, many studies have shown that it can indeed have a powerful effect on your body, brain and basically may even help you live longer!
What Are the Benefits of our Flex Intermittent Fasting Diet?
Fasting is nothing new – as humans evolved, there were natural periods of feast or famine (back in the hunting days). Many religions all over the world have fasting periods. Not only is the human body capable of sustaining fasting periods, but conversely there are also benefits beyond weight loss that come from not eating for a determined period of time.
Benefits of Fasting Include:
- Improved fat burning
- Better blood glucose
- Improved sensitivity to insulin
- Better growth hormone secretion
- Decreased inflammation throughout the body
- Improvement in blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglycerides
- Less muscle loss
- Decrease in food-related stress
- Improved appetite control
- Improved cardiovascular function
What Are the Benefits of Intermittent Fasting?
Fasting is nothing new – as humans evolved, there were natural periods of feast or famine (back in the hunting days). Many religions all over the world have fasting periods. Not only is the human body capable of sustaining fasting periods, but there are also benefits beyond weight loss that come from not eating for a determined period of time.
Benefits of Fasting Include:
- Improved fat burning
- Better blood glucose
- Improved sensitivity to insulin
- Better growth hormone secretion
- Decreased inflammation throughout the body
- Improvement in blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglycerides
- Less muscle loss
- Decrease in food-related stress
- Improved appetite control
- Improved cardiovascular function
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How Does the Program Work? How Is It Different?
This program focuses on eating the right foods in moderation, without worrying about the timing of your meals, incorporates intermittent fasting and includes the option for a cheat meal. Our traditional weight loss program has a different approach that focuses on meal timing as well as set amounts of protein, vegetables and fruit servings per day.
About Calla Flex – Intermittent Fasting Program
With the Calla Flex Weight Loss Program, you’ll practice intermittent fasting, with 24-hour periods when you don’t eat anything. During the other days, you’ll be on a balanced eating plan to help you lose weight and body fat while still retaining muscle. You’ll even get cheat meals each week, during which you can eat anything you want—even pizza!
Won’t Eating Less Slow Down My Metabolism?
Our traditional plan using one school of thought which embraces eating every 2-3 hours but there is more than one way to skin a cat. New data has been published showing that eating more frequently doesn’t necessarily speed up the metabolism. Although grazing is supposed to enable better appetite and blood sugar control, that effect isn’t reliable and doesn’t work for everyone.
For some people, eating more frequently does help to control both appetite and metabolism. For other people, the opposite is true; eating less frequently gives them an appetite and blood sugar advantage. This means that your decision to eat small meals more frequently or larger meals less frequently should be based on what works best for your schedule, your mood, your appetite and how you prefer to spend your time. We give you the flexibility to choose the weight loss program that will work best for you!
Supporting Studies:
In a study conducted at the University of Nottingham (in England), researchers found that when they made 29 men and women fast for 3 days, their metabolic rate did not change. This is 72 hours without food.
In still more studies performed on men and women between the ages of 25 and 65, there was no change in the metabolic rate of people who skipped breakfast or people who ate 2 meals a day compared to seven meals a day. The bottom line is that food has very little do to with your metabolism.
Will I Still Be Able to Exercise on This Program?
Generally, research has found that any effect that brief periods of fasting has on exercise performance is small. This means fasting does not negatively affect anaerobic short-burst exercise such as lifting weights, nor does it have a negative effect on typical “cardio” training.
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Call us today to schedule your consultation or new patient appointment with our experienced medical weight loss team in Winter Park to learn more about our medical weight loss programs and discover which one is the right one for you.
Results and statements depicted on the website are typical but not guaranteed. The success of the program is dependent upon multiple factors including the patient’s commitment to the diet program, the response of the patient’s body to the diet program, the length of time on the program, and the inclusion of exercise while on the program. While the majority of our patients do achieve their desired weight loss goals, every patient responds differently to the program.