Yes everybody is losing muscle, every year; every decade
because we are getting older, but only people who let their
muscles waste away have slower metabolisms as they get older.
Keep your muscles and keep your fat burning machine! The
only way to do this is get strong and stay strong.
Toss The Scales - The scales tell you
none of the things you need to know about your body and
everything you don't. They don't tell you how much fat you
have under your skin, they don't tell you how much skin
for that matter. The scales can't tell you how much fluid
is in your body.
What your bones weigh and most importantly, how much muscle
you have? However, weighing yourself can turn a perfectly
good day into a miserable day? Don't let an inanimate, household
item determine what kind of day you will have! They are
not accurate so throw them away.
Muscle Vs Fat - Muscle weighs two times
as much as fat yet takes up half the space. Muscle is responsible
for burning fat. Muscle is small when compared with fat.
Muscle never hangs off your body in unsightly lumps.
Muscle looks toned, tight, strong and lean. Muscle is tight
and hard to the touch and muscle is heavy. Fat is lumpy
and soft and flabby, fat takes up a lot of space, fat hangs
off your body. Fat is also soft to the touch and does not
weigh as much as muscle.
Always Eat Breakfast - Research has concluded
that having breakfast is important to kick-start the metabolism
for the day, the body slows down whilst sleeping and food
first thing in the morning actually awakens the body ready
for the rest of the day. Also try eating more fibre at this
time as it helps the digestive system work more effectively
and will help keep the blood sugar levels spread evenly
throughout the day.
Don't Cut Back On Calories - Food has
a heating effect on the body increasing your metabolic rate;
don't eat less than 1200 calories, as this will throw the
body into a starvation mode. Your metabolism will then slow
down to conserve the calories that you do have. Try to avoid
fad diets if possible as they restrict or reduce the nutrients
flowing to the body, which in turn slows down the metabolic
rate.
Eat Small Regular Meals - Eat five or
six small meals a day as this will trick the body into thinking
that there is an abundance of food and will stop your metabolism
from slowing down, keeping your sugar levels at a normal
level and this will stop you overeating. Try eating the
majority of your food earlier in the day, as the majority
of the calories will be burned up while you are awake and
active.
Count Calories - The way to keep track
of weight loss is to buy a calorie counter and record your
daily calorie intake for a week. Average out your calories
for the day and then decrease the calories by 300 –
500 (No More) then gauge what happens.
By decreasing the amount of calories per day to this amount
you should start losing weight. Don't go any lower; check
the mirror as well as the scales to judge your progress.
Don't Repeat Diet - Research shows repeated
dieting actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier
to put it on because when you dump the diet and return to
normal eating habits the drop in metabolic rate caused by
the diet means that your old habits actually represent an
excess in calories.
Not only do you regain the fat stores just lost, but also
you may even gain an extra bit. If you find your weight
loss starting to slow or stop over a period of time, increase
your walking pace a little or throw in a couple of hills
along your route.
Keep Track Of Fats - This may appear difficult
to maintain and calculate but it isn't. On nearly all packaged
food these days there is a nutritional label with a fat
indicator per 100gms of that particular food. What your
looking for here is a figure below 10 gms and nearing 5
gms would be the ideal. So purchasing and consuming foods
around this range you'll be on your weight loss target.
The Low down On Fats - It is stored in
the fat cells of the body. The number of fat cells is estimated
to be around 50 billion for the average person. It can be
up to 100 billion for the obese person. Fat cells are like
storage tanks of energy to be used for later use. It has
been shown that obese people who binge eat may stimulate
baby fat cells to sprout to increase the number of fat cells.
Believe me, once you start applying these 10 tips to your
everyday weight loss regime you will start to notice the
difference in a short period of time.
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