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Fitness Myth Busting: Is Whole Wheat Bread Way Better Than Regular White Bread?

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 31, 2017 | Leave a response

Similar to last week’s High Fructose Corn Syrup myth, Whole wheat bread being far superior to white bread falls into almost identical territory. The media, and some federal agencies, have deemed whole wheat to be far healthier but when looking at the data, it’s hard to see exactly how much more it benefits you than white bread.

The major boon it touts is having lower glycemic and insulin indices which lowers subsequent insulin releases. In addition, it also keeps a higher fiber and micro-nutrient content than white bread which gives it a definitive step up. Right?

Well, on paper, this may appear initially true but the margins for the glycemic and insulin levels are almost small enough to be completely negligble. In addition, the fiber and nutrients reportedly lost during the processing. However, if you’ve ever had enriched white bread before, this is essentially re-adding the nutrients lost to make it a better bread in the end.

So, is whole wheat the exact same as white bread then? No. There is one reason to pick it over white bread but not for its fiber or micro-nutrients. Rather, you can pick whole wheat bread for its higher phytic acid. Phytic acid creates a protective and anti-inflammatory effect on the colon which is extremely beneficial for anyone looking for a reason to pick it over white bread. However, that same acid also binds to different essential minerals such as iron and zinc; this causes absorption to be slightly lower within the body which is a minor but interesting side effect.

When it comes down to the argument of Whole Wheat Bread vs White Bread, I think it ends up being more about tastes than actual nutrition. I hope that you’ve learned exactly why we’ve been urged to go wheat over white and why that may not be exactly something that you have to do.

Until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

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5 Ways to Stay Motivated To Keep And Maintain Your Fitness Or Diet Regime

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 30, 2017 | Leave a response

Starting a new diet or fitness regime is probably the easiest thing in the world to do. You can wake up one morning, look in the mirror and think, “I’m gonna get in shape this year. I swear!” For the first week or so, you eat great, exercise on time, and overall feel great! However, for most sudden dieters, after another week, your motivation begins to wane significantly and you’re right back (or in a worse position) than you were before. Yet, there are those select few that can begin one and stick with it for the rest of their lives. While some of these steps won’t work for everyone, here are a few ways to really stay motivated and maintain your fitness or diet regimes!

1) Keep Your Exercise Apparel / Equipment Readily Visible – We all hate the smell of dirty gym socks and sneakers, but having them always present keeps the idea of working out on our minds. Imagine waking up in the morning and the first thing you see is your gym outfit and shoes beside the door with your regular work clothes. You’ve now told your mind that you wanted to work out today and during the day, you’ll keep this on your brain. It works similarly to an alarm or reminder on your phone except since it’s an image and not an annoying text post, your brain is able to retain it far better.

2) Gameify Your Workouts / Diets – The main opponent to a continued diet or workout routine is thinking of it as WORK or a CHORE. In short, you are putting in work but it should be something you enjoy rather than hate each time you step into the gym. A good way to get around this is to make everything you do into a game. There are a number of wearables out there including the Fitbit and some online services as well that can help you make your goals into fun projects instead of tedious and boring things to do.

3) Make Workout & Diet Friends – While going alone is fine, a great way to maintain your fitness or diet regime is to make friends! While you can always invite known friends into the fold, meeting someone at the gym who is in similar shape or has the same goals can do wonders for your regime. The biggest benefit is if you don’t feel motivated to go, but your friend does, they can often help you get your butt up and hit the racks! The same goes for diets. When you feel like it’s time to cheat, your friend’s update on their diet may cause you to reconsider scarfing down that cheeseburger and instead eat healthy for the day. Friends are wonderful things, workout friends are even better!

4) Really Reward Yourself – Similar to Pavlov’s Dog, we are also creatures of habit and sometimes need that extra motivation that comes in the form of a reward at the end of the day. This reward can be an after workout smoothie or an end of the diet week ice cream cone on a cheat day. Whatever it is, make sure it’s something that gives you joy as an individual and not something that anyone else suggests. Working out is for you and to maintain your fitness goals, you have to make incentives that are right for YOU!

5) Get a personal trainer! – Let’s be serious for a minute. Sometimes it takes a very special person to get up every day and feel like working out. Even more so if you don’t have anything to lose. Now think about exactly what a personal trainer is. You hire a person for lessons on how to live a healthier and more fit life and if you don’t like the outcome, you try someone else. However, from a motivation point of view, no one likes to lose money. So once you find someone who is both knowledgeable and makes working out fun, your motivation becomes wanting to make sure you make every appointment as most personal trainers don’t offer refunds for classes purchased. The biggest benefit of a personal trainer is having someone who is on YOUR side and pushes you beyond what you expected to do. Even if you only go to the gym once or twice a week with a PT, you can be certain you’ll leave with a far better workout than if you “tried” to go three or four times a week on your own.

That’s our five tips to stay motivated and maintain your fitness or diet regime and I’m sure there are plenty more out there so feel free to share them in the comments below! Until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

Sugar Free Sundays: Simple Yet Delicious Honey Sriracha Tilapia Dinner For Two

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 29, 2017 | Leave a response

If you’re into fitness and dieting at all, then you’re probably familiar with the amazing power of fish. High in both protein and taste, fish is a flexible option for meat or an otherwise unhealthy alternative. On this Sugar Free Sunday, we’re going to tell you how to turn one ugly fish into a great Sriracha Tilapia dinner for two!

For our side, let’s do a coleslaw! However, most coleslaw are heavily based around milk and mayo so here’s an alternative that is full of protein and flavor.

Mayo-Free Coleslaw (Asian Fusion)

Ingredients

6 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
5 Tablespoons Creamy Peanut Butter (Trust me)
3 Tablespoons Soy Sauce
3 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
2 Tablespoons Minced Fresh Ginger Root (Can use paste as well)
1 And 1/2 Tablespoons Minced Garlic (Can use paste as well)
6 Tablespoons Rice Wine Vinegar
5 Cups Of thinly Sliced Green Cabbage
2 Cups Of Thinly Sliced Red Cabbage
2 Cups Of Shredded Napa Cabbage
2 Thinly Sliced Red Bell Peppers
6 Chopped Green Onions
1/2 Of A Cup Chopped Fresh Cilantro
2 Julienned Carrots

Instructions

In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the rice vinegar, vegetable oil, peanut butter, soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, and garlic. Set this aside until later.
In a larger bowl, mix and toss the different cabbage varieties, red bell peppers, carrots, green onions, and cilantro.
Just before serving, add in the peanut butter mixture and toss liberally to make sure it’s spread around to every single vegetable.

Now for the main course, the easy to make semi-spicy Honey Sriracha Tilapia.

Ingredients

1/4th Of A Teaspoon Powdered Garlic (Garlic Salt will also work)
2 Tablespoons Of Lime Juice
1 Tablespoon Of Soy Sauce
3 Tablespoons Of Honey
1 Tablespoon Of Soy Sauce
1 And 1/2 Tabelspoons Of Sriracha
1 Pound Tilapia Fillets

Instructions

Preheat Oven To 450.
As the oven heats, line an oven safe half sheet pan with 2 pieces of foil and divide the tilapia evenly between the two sides.
Season the fish with the garlic, lime juice, and salt / pepper to taste. Leave this sitting away from the oven for around ten – 15 minutes to marinate.
After the wait, mix the soy sauce, sriracha, and honey and pour equally over the fish.
Carefully surround the fish with the foil loosely. Poke small slits into the foil to allow the steam to escape.
Put the pan into the oven’s second rack and cook for 15 to 18 minutes or until the fish is noticeably flaky but still moist.
ENJOY!

This dish takes roughly 40 minutes to make and, if you have a fitness buddy, you can make both parts of the dish at once. The flavor will make you second guess the nutrition but both components of the dinner give a large amount of protein without the diet crushing extra parts. Better yet, you’ll leave the table full but not bloated and your taste buds will be swimming in joy!

Just because it’s healthy doesn’t mean it has to taste horrible but until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

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Daily Stretching: How Keeping Limber Can Help Stave Off The Effects Of Aging

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 28, 2017 | Leave a response

We all know to stretch before we begin an exercise but what about on days where we’re just lounging around the house with nothing to do? While every personal trainer will advise you that stretching daily will help in the long run, not every one of them will be able to tell you exactly how and why daily stretching is an excellent idea regardless of physicality.

One of the main reasons anyone stretches, is because it does in fact get your body nice and loose and ready for movement with less pain and anguish. Static stretching (stretch and hold) still works okay for this aspect but utilizing mobility friendly stretches that put your joints and muscles through their full range of motion help quite a bit more as they ensure your body is at its tip top.

Aside from the obvious range of motion advantages, did you know that daily stretching increases energy and improves the way your body approaches workouts? When you stretch daily, as your range of motion improves, your body becomes more able to do exercises and weights that it wasn’t able to fully do before. This is because although some of the motions in weight lifting are awkward, if you’ve performed stretching of a similar nature recently, your body retains the knowledge of how to move and can emulate it better.

The biggest benefits that keep the effects of aging away come from stretching’s ability to help prevent injury by improving balance and malleability, as well as lowered blood sugar and stress. In a recent study involving 42 college students focused on how stretching would impact how long they could stay in a balance challenging machine, students that stretched were able to maintain balance far longer than those who just went for it. This led researchers to believe that it could help with fine muscle coordination or how our bodies adjust on a smaller level to help prevent tumbles.

Stretching is therapeutic as well and similar to exercise, can help with blood sugar. Another study from 2011 had a group of people drink sugary drinks and see if their blood sugar would be changed after stretching. Surprisingly, they did seem to have lower blood sugar levels which may have to do with the physical exertion. While stretching should never be forced, popping your joints, and neck can actually trick your mind into relaxing. It’s why when you’re in an argument and you stretch your hands over your head, it feels like you are able to better control yourself. Imagine if instead you assumed the archer pose, you probably would forget what the argument was all about!

Daily stretching, in and out of the gym, can lead to a better more healthy life as long as it’s done in moderation. There is a point where your body is “too loose” and needs some rigidness to operate. Not only that, but pushing yourself past your comfort levels can prove painful if you do too much, too quickly.

Hopefully I was able to stretch your mind today and until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

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3 Tips To Greatly Improve Your Pushup Without Breaking Your Back

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 25, 2017 | Leave a response

Pushups are the go to body weight exercise and for good reason. This exercise can increase strength as well as definition in the biceps, triceps, and shoulder regions. But what if I told you that you can actually improve this exercise further to include your abs, chest, or even your lats without killing them in the process? Here’s some tips to do all that and more to really improve your pushup game.

1. Tighten the stomach

While pushups are primarily for upper body improvement, tightening the stomach during a set of reps can actually help improve core strength. What tightening the stomach does to improve your pushups goes beyond just adding a planking type of addition but also helps from rounding your spine which reduces injury of trying to force your back to stay in place. Pretty great right?

2. Spread those fingers

A lot of people will do pushups close handed or where their fingers are all together pointing in the same direction. If you’ve ever seen those guys who do jumping pushups or anything similar, a good majority are using an open, spread hand. This adds more tension to the workout while making it a bit easier to transfer into diamond style after a while. It’s also great because it works your lats and adds yet another muscle group to the already great workout.

3. Push in and away

To improve your pushup further, try pushing inwards. If you’re utilizing the wide grip from tip four, then focus on pushing those thumbs towards each other each time you go down. This will engage the chest even further than it already has by giving the feeling of a chest press each time you perform a rep. In addition, most people consider pushups as lifting yourself off of the ground but if you try to instead, push the ground away from you, you’ll notice a change in the exercise that affects the whole body!

With these three steps in mind, you can begin to try different more difficult variations like diamond style, burpees, or even increase the amount of time per each rep for maximum muscle penetration. Pushups are wonderful and as long as you do them right, can sometimes replace a gym visit if you don’t have an hour to spend for the day.

Until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

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Fitness Myth Busting: High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Less Healthy Than Sugar

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 24, 2017 | Leave a response

High fructose corn syrup not being as healthy as sugar from a nutritional standpoint has been talked about in more ways than you can ever imagine. The food industry often gets attacked when the ingredient is found in items customers didn’t expect it in as well as the ones they did. The myth that high fructose corn syrup is less healthy than sugar mostly derives from its link to high consumption and diabetes / obesity. However, let’s see if we can’t clear up that myth once and for all.

While any amount of sugar in too high of a serving is bad for you, the major differences between HFC and regular table sugar is what type of sugar is being used. HFC, as its name would imply, is derived from fructose which is a sugar that can also be found in fruit. However, it differs from table sugar since it is derived from sucrose which is easier for the body to digest. But wait, let’s look a little at the production methods used on both of these.

According to Examine.com in a recent study, high fructose corn syrups contain around 42 – 55% fructose with the rest being other types of sugars. Table sugar, on the other hand, contains 50% fructose on average. That should be enough to convince just about anyone that there isn’t much of a difference but allow me to go further. Typically, when we hear that something is not “pure sugar”, we have an immediate gag reaction within our ears. It’s why some people shy away from artificial sweeteners and other products that deliver the sweet flavor without using sugar. However, when it comes down to it, High fructose corn syrup, although high in name, has around the same amount of fructose as regular table sugar.

So, in other words, the thought that high fructose corn syrup is less healthy than sugar can almost immediately get disproved. It’s not a matter of one being healthier than the other since it’s a margin of 5% difference, but rather you should avoid consuming too much of either as fructose is still proven to not be as easily digested and is instead converted into fatty acids.

Well, that’s another myth busted and hopefully we’ve come to understand that all sugars should be treated equally. Until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

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A Few Easy Tricks To Greatly Improve Your Cardio Workouts

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 23, 2017 | Leave a response

Weight lifting is the core of all exercise. Whether you’re doing body weight push ups, weighted bench presses, or just calve extensions, they play an essential part in both heart rate as well as muscle gain. However, when looking to burn fat effectively, coupling them with great cardio workout days really make the results pop sooner than expected. Today, I wanted to share some ways to improve your cardio workouts that I’ve found particularly effective.

Go for an extra ten minutes

When you first step on the machine or hit the pavement, your body immediately tells you to get back in the house if you haven’t done cardio in a while. From my experience, this seems to mostly come from increasing the level of physical exertion from what your body is used to. This isn’t a bad sign however as when you are able to will your legs to keep going for the first 10 or so minutes, eventually you hit a point where it feels amazing. Some call this “hitting the runner’s high” and I can understand why.

You feel great for the next 30 or so minutes and your legs are hardly registering any stress until you you realize your workout is just about over. The last ten minutes of the workout feel excruciating as you struggle to keep up your pace and think about giving up early. But you don’t and keep going instead. Now, instead of doing a cool down period as soon as that clock hits 60 minutes, why not try another ten minutes today? Sure your body is pretty ragged at this point but our physique’s are uniquely designed to adapt to situations such as this. After you finish your first 70 minute run, try doing it the day after next for a couple of weeks. In no time, hitting that 60 minutes will be a breeze and now the 70 minute mark will be your new “horrible time”. Then add another 10 minutes, until you feel like you’re getting the most out of your workout. Remember to increase hydration as well as the extra stress on your body will dry you up quickly.

This will lead to improved breath control, more cardio work (since you’re sweating for an additional 10 minute intervals), and better conditioning. Conditioning helps all parts of working out as your willpower and endurance will help with weight lifting and terrible crunches. And to think, it just takes an extra ten minutes a day!

Don’t let it be too easy

If you’ve ever strength trained for a period of time, you’ve probably heard a personal trainer say “Did you just do 15? Okay, that’s too light, let’s increase the weight again.” Your first response is frustration since you feel like you could barely get those in but in reality, your body craves to be pushed and, again, adapts to the changes given to it. The same applies for cardio, especially when on a machine with variable speeds and inclines.

Let’s look at the typical exercise bike. While this machine is very easy to use, each one typically offers different degrees of resistance on the pedals to help improve muscle tone and cardio exertion. If you’ve ever gotten off the machine after an hour, barely coated in sweat, not feeling sore, and wake up the next morning with no new definition to show, “It’s too easy, let’s increase the resistance again.” Ideally, during your cardio sessions, you should struggle to match a certain speed. If your legs are racing like crazy and you get off feeling refreshed with no sweat, you probably didn’t burn nearly as much fat as you think you did. This is because, your heart never raced or struggled so your body didn’t have to compensate. You want your body to get swept up in the activity and leave the gym soaked after cardio. That’s right, you should always bring a towel to the gym in preparation of working out until you need a towel. Sweating after a cardio workout proves that your heart hit a good pace and if after that point you maintained the same work on it, you more than likely got a good hour of high intensity cardio.

So next time you’re at the gym, increase that incline, adjust the resistance, and get sweaty.

Changing it up

This is my personal favorite, especially on the elliptical. Regardless of your workout of choice, changing up the pacing of a cardio exercise will always show good results. To improve your cardio workout easily, try doing sprint intervals. What this means is if you’re on the treadmill, run at a regular pace for a while then increase the speed to where you’re sprinting for 30 seconds to a minute, then adjust it back down if you can. This is done a bit better on a bicycle or elliptical as you can change your pace and “Go all out” which then makes you burn more calories because of the irregularity of it. These intervals make you heave and ho and eventually increase endurance, speed,and from some reports, reduce belly fat.

Cardio workouts are essential and I hope these tips can help you improve your cardio workouts as much as they’ve helped my own. Until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

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Sugar Free Sunday: How To Pick A Protein Bar That Is Right For You

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 22, 2017 | Leave a response

Protein Bars are actually extremely varied in both size and function. However, deciding on the perfect one for your diet regiment / workout is always tricky when looking through so many options. This Sugar Free Sunday, I wanted to look into exactly what the name brand protein bars have in them and try to identify the type of regiments that would benefit from their aid the most.

To begin, my criteria for choosing these is based on what you can find at a fitness store right as you walk in. Some may be a little tougher to find on the shelves but trust me, they will be there somewhere. This is by no means a top ten list or anything like that but rather just a resource you can reference as you continue your exercise routine.

Quest Bars

Quest bars are some of the best to recommend as both meal replacement and weight loss bars. Within one cookies and cream bar, you’ll find: just 190 calories, 9g of good fat, a total of 4g of net carbs and a whopping 21g of protein. This bar will fill you up and personally, I think they taste quite good for a protein bar with most of the flavors being extremely delicious. Most of their bars also have 0g of sugar so for those looking to curb their appetites and keep the flavor; this is a great bar for that.

Clif Builders

Clif Bars are typically energy bars that fuel you before beginning a workout. However, Clif builder bars typically average around 270 Calories, 9g of good fat, and a rather high 29g of carbs with 21g coming from sugar. Remember, carbs aren’t always bad especially when they come from fiber, however carbs that come from pure sugar are an issue and make these a little hard to find a perfect workout space in. However, like you’ll see with the Powerbar, these can be perfect for a post workout dinner replacement. Your body tears through carbs, Calories, and sugars during intense workouts. To keep your form, taking one of these as a post workout is not the worst idea to consider. There are better choices however since the added sugar is extremely high so be cautious on replacing too many meals with these bars.

PowerBar PROTEINPLUS BAR

PowerBars are usually what people reach for before and after a workout however, as you’ll see very soon, they may not be the best idea for a protein bar in the long run. Every bar typically contains peanut, almond, milk and soy which racks up quite a bit on the allergy count. Beyond that, nutrition wise, the bars average 210 Calories, 6g of fat, 25g of carbs, 100mg of potassium, and 20g of protein. From a nutrition only standpoint, this protein bar would serve a use as post major workout meal replacement. However, since so much of the carbs come from sugar, as a meal replacement, this does not do what it’s meant to since eating a regular meal would have a bit less sugar on average.

Combat Crunch Bars

Combat crunch bars boast the moniker of “The best triple layered “BAKED” protein bar on the market. When looking at their nutrition facts however, this may be a bit harder to discern. Similar to the Power-Bar and Clif builders, Combat Crunch Bars (at least the popular chocolate peanut butter cup flavor) also have 210 calories, 7g of fat, 28g of carbs, and 20g of protein. However, they separate themselves from the above by increasing the dietary fiber to 12g and reducing sugars to only 5g. It’s a great bar that I would recommend for both post AND pre workouts. The amount of fiber should not be underestimated as good carbs can really help during a workout. Recommended for runners right before a long race or just a jog on the treadmill.

So there you have it, a quick look at some of the more popular protein bars out there and what we think the best way to take them would be. The best thing to remember is that every bar boasts its high protein count but taking into consideration the amount of carbs, what you’re planning to use it for, and how often you’d like to replace a meal, only some will fit the criteria perfectly.

That’s it for today and until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

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Have You Heard Of The ‘Animal Flow’ Fitness Trend?

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 21, 2017 | Leave a response

Well if you haven’t, here’s your quick briefer. Animal Flow is a new exercise program developed by Mike Fitch in partnership with Equinox. The tagline of the program is that Animal Flow “taps into your primal instincts to get you moving your body in ways you’ve never imagined before.” While there all kinds of ways to get fit nowadays, the reason this particular one caught my interest is its break dance / yoga fusion.

Most of the positions, as you’ll see in the video linked below, are related to improving core strength while at the same time looking a tad silly when compared to traditional workouts. However, some of the movements the gentleman performs are inspired by focusing on primate walking patterns and also contracting muscles in a certain pattern. This clip is on the more advanced side of the workout as a lot of the positions require half hand stands or other break dancing maneuvers that can take years to master.

So what are the benefits of the routine then? From what I can discern, there is a lot of muscle confusion and core strengthening as well as a high level of cardio. However, as with any fad, it seems destined to disappear within a few months. While Animal Flow is certainly interesting to watch, the high levels of requirement to reach “advanced motion” outweigh anything that could be gained from actually working to reach there. Exercise and workouts that have stood the test of time require a minimum amount of mental effort to reach the point of the advanced versions. Not anyone can do a handstand push up but everyone can attempt a regular push up and within weeks (if not days) try a diamond style one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLYZ-3beDeI

It’s hard to talk bad about any way to stay fit and, believe me, I’m not actually saying Animal Flow is poor in anyway. The target demographic for people that will try this is just so small that recommending it to anyone who has just started training or heading down the road of losing weight would be foolish on my part. It is great to see yet another new way to get in shape out there!

That’s my time for today and remember, think healthy, be healthy!

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Learning To Eat Can Help You Begin Effective Weight Loss

Published by That One Fitness Guy on January 20, 2017 | Leave a response

While this title may seem rather generic, let’s look at exactly what I mean before right in. When I say “Learning to eat can help you begin effective weight loss”, I don’t mean eating “right” or eating the “right things”. I actually mean, just eating enough food for your BMI or body mass index.

The common myths to begin losing weight are typically you need to either consume fewer carbs, take out all sugars, or stop eating entirely. However, all of these( like many myths) can actually hurt you in the end if done too quickly. Your body requires a certain amount of calories to really begin to function correctly. Many weight loss hopefuls however often neglect this fact before beginning their diet and they end up yo-yoing for months unsure of what they are doing wrong.

So how do diets work then? For the most part, hypocaloric diets do work. These are diets that are based on caloric restriction HOWEVER to be effective, you have to first be at your calorie target and that requires learning to eat. There are a number of websites out there where you can calculate your BMI and from there begin to figure out how many calories someone at your age, height, weight, and structure is meant to consume. A large number of people who begin training and dieting actually don’t consume enough calories to begin with which is why they have that extra tire around the midsection or can’t seem to slim down completely.

The reason for this is that your body needs good calories, fats, carbs, and proteins to really function. When it doesn’t get the expected requirements on a regular basis, then it begins to hold onto fats and other things that it doesn’t need and when you begin a diet suddenly, it holds onto them even more to compensate. It’s a survival mechanism because the body believes it is starving.

When you first begin eating for you BMI, the amount of food you consume daily may surprise you. Immediately though, you’ll notice an increase in energy, brain function, and overall happiness. That is because for the first time, your body is learning to eat. There will definitely be a little bit of weight gain but once your body hits the right amount of calories over the next few weeks, you can begin to regulate and lower the calorie count just slightly. Usually, to lose a pound a week, you want to eat about 250 – 300 calories less. This is only after you have shown your body what “regular” feels like.

Coupled with a good personal trainer and exercise, learning to eat will and does lead to effective weight loss with proper dieting whether you decide to go the no sugar, carb, or high protein route.Eating enough for your body to keep running like a well oiled machine is an essential first step to begin true and permanent weight loss. Until next time, think healthy, be healthy!

Posted in Fat Loss Tagged weight loss

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