6 Tips To Help You Lose Fat Not Muscle
If you're trying to build muscle and lose fat through proper diet nutrition, you can easily get frustrated. Hopefully these 6 tips can help you get closer to this elusive goal.
Keep On Eating
Believe it or not, it's all about increasing the amount of food you're eating, not decreasing it. It's not about taking in more calories, but rather providing your body with the protein it needs at the proper times.
When you go for a long period of time, your body kind of freaks out. The next time you eat, your body will think that meals are going to come few and far between, so it will store whatever it can from that meal as fat.
When you don't eat for more than a few hours, you'll see your blood sugar levels go down quite a bit. This not only affects your mood and concentration, it makes you feel tires. This also causes your body to crave anything that might bring up your blood sugar levels. For me, that tends to be chocolate. Not good.
Eating a giant meal (even a healthy one) will put a huge strain on your body and cause it to rush through the digestion process. When your body isn't running as efficiently, it isn't going to get everything it should out of each meal. This will cause your body to crave more food sooner than you should. I suggest you eat every 2 to 4 hours.
Clean and Lean Food
The best carbohydrates to eat are called complex carbs. These are the carbs that are high in fiber and not processed very much. You'll find them most often in fresh fruits and vegetables. This will give you a clean nutrition food source that won't cause jumps in your insulin levels. Also focus on eating proteins that are low in fat.
Break Off the Love Affair with Sugar.
If you're not care, you'll consume more sugar than you thought you were. Why? It's hidden with all these fancy names. The next time you're doing an ingredient check, look for things like glucose, sorbitol and even lactose. They're all types of sugar.
Water, Water and more Water
Water is one of the most important nutrients that your body needs. With the large amounts of carbonated drinks and other surgery drinks, it's no wonder why our water intake is way below the recommended 8 glasses a day. Water helps your body with elimination and quicker digestion. It also has no calories and can serve as an appetite suppressant and helps the body metabolize stored fat. The over weight person needs more water than the thin one; water helps to maintain proper muscle tone, and helps relieve constipation which is essential to weight loss.
Protein is Vital
This is one of the most difficult things for me. It's not easy to consume the proper amount of protein each day when you're loosing weight. I supplement with a very clean protein shake a couple of times per day. Eat lots of chicken, fish and very lean beef whenever you can. This will help your body boost it's metabolism and build lean muscle.
Rotate Carb Amounts
Rotating carbohydrates allows you to control and manipulate your blood sugars and insulin response so you are allowing your body to burn more calories for energy instead of storing excess carbs as fat. Carbohydrate cycling is the act of lowering your carb intake for 1-2 days and bringing it back up. This keeps your metabolism from slowing down and makes dieting easier knowing that you can have higher carbs and calories in a few days.
If you have been struggling with weight loss and desire to lose fat fast then look at your carb intake and consider using "carb rotation". Soon, you'll see the results you've been seeking. - 17273
Keep On Eating
Believe it or not, it's all about increasing the amount of food you're eating, not decreasing it. It's not about taking in more calories, but rather providing your body with the protein it needs at the proper times.
When you go for a long period of time, your body kind of freaks out. The next time you eat, your body will think that meals are going to come few and far between, so it will store whatever it can from that meal as fat.
When you don't eat for more than a few hours, you'll see your blood sugar levels go down quite a bit. This not only affects your mood and concentration, it makes you feel tires. This also causes your body to crave anything that might bring up your blood sugar levels. For me, that tends to be chocolate. Not good.
Eating a giant meal (even a healthy one) will put a huge strain on your body and cause it to rush through the digestion process. When your body isn't running as efficiently, it isn't going to get everything it should out of each meal. This will cause your body to crave more food sooner than you should. I suggest you eat every 2 to 4 hours.
Clean and Lean Food
The best carbohydrates to eat are called complex carbs. These are the carbs that are high in fiber and not processed very much. You'll find them most often in fresh fruits and vegetables. This will give you a clean nutrition food source that won't cause jumps in your insulin levels. Also focus on eating proteins that are low in fat.
Break Off the Love Affair with Sugar.
If you're not care, you'll consume more sugar than you thought you were. Why? It's hidden with all these fancy names. The next time you're doing an ingredient check, look for things like glucose, sorbitol and even lactose. They're all types of sugar.
Water, Water and more Water
Water is one of the most important nutrients that your body needs. With the large amounts of carbonated drinks and other surgery drinks, it's no wonder why our water intake is way below the recommended 8 glasses a day. Water helps your body with elimination and quicker digestion. It also has no calories and can serve as an appetite suppressant and helps the body metabolize stored fat. The over weight person needs more water than the thin one; water helps to maintain proper muscle tone, and helps relieve constipation which is essential to weight loss.
Protein is Vital
This is one of the most difficult things for me. It's not easy to consume the proper amount of protein each day when you're loosing weight. I supplement with a very clean protein shake a couple of times per day. Eat lots of chicken, fish and very lean beef whenever you can. This will help your body boost it's metabolism and build lean muscle.
Rotate Carb Amounts
Rotating carbohydrates allows you to control and manipulate your blood sugars and insulin response so you are allowing your body to burn more calories for energy instead of storing excess carbs as fat. Carbohydrate cycling is the act of lowering your carb intake for 1-2 days and bringing it back up. This keeps your metabolism from slowing down and makes dieting easier knowing that you can have higher carbs and calories in a few days.
If you have been struggling with weight loss and desire to lose fat fast then look at your carb intake and consider using "carb rotation". Soon, you'll see the results you've been seeking. - 17273
About the Author:
Victoria Jameson spends most of her time running her Fit Supermom website where she helps people with their weight loss program and diet nutrition in order to help them achieve their physical goals.
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