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.
Eat! Eat! Eat!
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.
Keep energies up by having constant regular blood sugar levels. Not eating for long periods, decreases your blood sugar and makes you tired.
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.
Eat Clean
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.
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
You can control and adjust your insulin levels by keeping your carb content low for a couple of days at a time. Then boost them back up again to keep your body from going too far in the opposite direction. This will help accelerate your fat loss and not cause you to go carb crazy. If you're going just 2 days without, you can push through and make it. It's not like when you go on an extremely low carb diet for weeks on end.
Through carbohydrate rations and decreased overall carb intake you will push your body into massive fat burning mode. Watching your protein intake and intervals will make sure you don't lose your precious muscle tissues.
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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