Fat Lose Without Losing Muscle
Posted on March 10, 2009
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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.
This will reduce the bodies tendency to go into “survival mode”, which is where your body starts storing calories as fat when you haven’t eaten for a long period of time.
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.
Sugar Is Your Enemy.
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.
The Perfect Drink: 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
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 Your Carb Levels
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.
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