How many times when you thought about losing weight did you or a friend starve themselves thinking that would help when losing weight? Yes you can lose scale weight with this tactic but as quickly as you lose it you can gain it back and some. Get it through your head that scale weight is not the most important, your body fat is. Some people rely on Bmi as an accurate measurement when figuring out how healthy they are. My BMI tells me I’m obese even though my body fat is 5%, lol. So my whole point here is focus on losing body fat and gaining muscle not stepping on the scale. If your losing inches and building muscle then you are going in the right direction.
Starving yourself is one of the worst things you can do when trying to lose fat weight. Ok ill explain how your body works. You are burning calories 24 hours per day even when you sleep. If throughout the day while you are awake you are not putting adequate calories in your body your body responds by burning muscle as energy then the next meal you eat gets stored as a survival reaction as fat storage. So when you starve yourself you will not only be burning muscle and gaining fat weight you will be lowering your metabolism which means every minute of the day you are burning less calories and in time your body becomes fatter and unhealthier. Is this an eye opener or what? So what can you do to make sure you are eating enough to not burn muscle but not eat too much where you are gaining bad weight? Here are 6 tips:
- Eat every 2-3 hours throughout the day
- Eat only till your satisfied never till your full
- Check your body fat 1-2 times per month
- 4-5 days per week cardio of 250-750 calories per day
- 3-5 days per week of weightlifting
- Always remember its better to eat something then nothing at all, just make the meal or snack a healthy choice
- Balance – Do not overeat, Do not under eat, Both lead to fat gain
Hope everyone has a great weekend !!!!
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