1. Gain
muscle. When you gain muscle, you are more metabolically active. This means you
use more energy from your food than you store. Muscles don’t mean looking big
and bulky; those big muscley folks you’re thinking of have worked very hard for
decades to get that look and have very likely used drugs to enhance their
appearance. It does not happen by accident. The way to gain muscle is to do
resistance training and ensure adequate quality and quantity food intake. Lifting
weights is the easiest way to accomplish this.
2. Eat
more of the good stuff, less of the bad. Good means more protein (lean meat,
eggs, whey protein), good fat (nuts, olive oil, coconut oil, real butter) and
healthier carbs (vegetables and fruit). Bad foods would be meat with
ingredients such as modified maize starch or breadcrumbs, margarines or the so
called “heart healthy” spreads, or rice, pasta, bread sweets etc.
3. Drink
more water, soda water and green tea. Three reasons: First; a well hydrated body
functions better metabolically to burn more fat. Second; we don’t differentiate
too well between hunger and thirst. Many times when you think you’re hungry,
you are probably thirsty and don’t know it. Last; our bodies don’t process
calories from fluids as well as from food so these calories are more likely to
be stored as fat and less likely to be used for energy. Yes this includes
smoothies. Diet and zero calorie drinks have their own problems which I will
explain in next week’s article. Try cutting out all drinks except water, soda
water and green tea for a few weeks and see the difference yourself.
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