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
The way to lose body fat without losing muscle mass is to eat more, not less! Eating 6-7 meals throughout the day will provide the body with protein at regular intervals while limiting muscle loss.
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.
Decrease body fat by increasing your resting metabolic rate. Your body can digest smaller meals a lot easier then a few larger ones. By eating every 3 hours, you are helping your body to burn more fat.
Make It Clean
When you eat processed simple carbohydrates you cause a huge jump in your bodies insulin levels. Try to avoid foods made with white flour and sugar. Instead eat proteins that are very lean and complex carbohydrates from fresh fruits and vegetables.
Sugar - The New Fat
When you're tying to avoid sugar, you suddenly realize how prevalent it is in our foods. It seems to be put into everything these days. You won't always see it listed as "sugar", but instead as maltose, sucrose or even fructose. You have to really keep an eye out for it.
Water, Water and more Water
You're probably sick of hearing about water, but it really is God's perfect thirst quencher. I know the people at Gatorade don't like to hear that, but water does a great job. It will also help build muscle and burn fat. If you're drinking at least 8 glasses of water per day, you're doing a lot to help your body run more efficiently. This will result in better health and a leaner body.
Eat Protein
Get plenty of lean protein from chicken, fish, and lean beef every day. It can be hard to eat enough through out the day so you can add peanut butter, and use protein supplements if needed. By adding plenty of protein, you are keeping your body from using its own muscle for energy and allowing you metabolism to burn at a higher rate.
Rotate Carb Amounts
Carb rotation or cycling is achieved when you drop your intake for a couple of days and then bring it back up for a day or two. This does a number of things. It doesn't allow your body to think it's starving. Just when it starts to think it's not getting enough carbs you inject it with plenty. This also makes staying on your diet a little easier. You can power through a couple of days of very low carbs if you know that's lal it is, a couple of 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
The way to lose body fat without losing muscle mass is to eat more, not less! Eating 6-7 meals throughout the day will provide the body with protein at regular intervals while limiting muscle loss.
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.
Decrease body fat by increasing your resting metabolic rate. Your body can digest smaller meals a lot easier then a few larger ones. By eating every 3 hours, you are helping your body to burn more fat.
Make It Clean
When you eat processed simple carbohydrates you cause a huge jump in your bodies insulin levels. Try to avoid foods made with white flour and sugar. Instead eat proteins that are very lean and complex carbohydrates from fresh fruits and vegetables.
Sugar - The New Fat
When you're tying to avoid sugar, you suddenly realize how prevalent it is in our foods. It seems to be put into everything these days. You won't always see it listed as "sugar", but instead as maltose, sucrose or even fructose. You have to really keep an eye out for it.
Water, Water and more Water
You're probably sick of hearing about water, but it really is God's perfect thirst quencher. I know the people at Gatorade don't like to hear that, but water does a great job. It will also help build muscle and burn fat. If you're drinking at least 8 glasses of water per day, you're doing a lot to help your body run more efficiently. This will result in better health and a leaner body.
Eat Protein
Get plenty of lean protein from chicken, fish, and lean beef every day. It can be hard to eat enough through out the day so you can add peanut butter, and use protein supplements if needed. By adding plenty of protein, you are keeping your body from using its own muscle for energy and allowing you metabolism to burn at a higher rate.
Rotate Carb Amounts
Carb rotation or cycling is achieved when you drop your intake for a couple of days and then bring it back up for a day or two. This does a number of things. It doesn't allow your body to think it's starving. Just when it starts to think it's not getting enough carbs you inject it with plenty. This also makes staying on your diet a little easier. You can power through a couple of days of very low carbs if you know that's lal it is, a couple of 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 fitness weight training in order to help them achieve their physical goals.
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