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.
When you eat more often, you let your body know that it can relax because more food is coming soon. This keeps your body from panicking and keeping some of your calories tucked away in the form of fat.
It’s extremely important to keep your blood sugar levels .. well, level. When they fluctuate up and down, it’s nearly impossible to lose fat. When you go for an extended amount of time without food, your blood sugar level drops dramatically.
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
When you eat processed simple carbohydrates you cause a huge jump in your bodies insulin levels. Try to avoid foods made with white flour and sugar. Instead eat proteins that are very lean and complex carbohydrates from fresh fruits and vegetables.
Break Off the Love Affair with Sugar.
If you’re not care, you’ll consume more sugar than you thought you were. Why? It’s hidden with all these fancy names. The next time you’re doing an ingredient check, look for things like glucose, sorbitol and even lactose. They’re all types of sugar.
Drink more water
Water is one of the most important nutrients that your body needs. With the large amounts of carbonated drinks and other surgery drinks, it’s no wonder why our water intake is way below the recommended 8 glasses a day. Water helps your body with elimination and quicker digestion. It also has no calories and can serve as an appetite suppressant and helps the body metabolize stored fat. The over weight person needs more water than the thin one; water helps to maintain proper muscle tone, and helps relieve constipation which is essential to weight loss.
Protein is Vital
Get plenty of lean protein from chicken, fish, and lean beef every day. It can be hard to eat enough through out the day so you can add peanut butter, and use protein supplements if needed. By adding plenty of protein, you are keeping your body from using its own muscle for energy and allowing you metabolism to burn at a higher rate.
Rotate Your Carb Levels
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.
These are the things you should be watching closely if you’ve hoping to lose fat and not muscle. Keep your carbohydrate levels lows and utilize the rotation technique with the carbs you do consume.
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