How Many Calories Should I Consume to Lose Weight
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If you want to lose body fat, you just can’t stop eating. If you want to gain quality weight in the form of muscle, you can’t just pig out on food.
Smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day work to manage and regulate your metabolism. You should schedule your meals every 2 to 3 hours throughout the entire day.
Regular weight training and cardiovascular training sessions will also help regulate your metabolism.
Effectively managing your metabolic rate through strategically-timed smaller meals, weight training workouts, and cardiovascular training sessions for a series of days, weeks, and months will help you improve your body over time.
10 Keys to Losing Weight
1) Avoid eating processed foods- In order to extend shelf life and improve taste, processed foods are packed with chemicals and trans fats. They also tend to be loaded with sugar or sodium.
2) Avoid overcooking or microwaving vegetables- Many of the nutritional values of vegetables are lost or destroyed in the process.
3) Avoid boxed snacks- They can cause insulin levels to skyrocket, making you hungrier and turning your fat-storing mechanisms on. They also decrease satiety, causing you to eat more to feel as full.
4) Avoid trans- fats- All the cookies, cheezy poofs, and potato chips on the shelves have trans-fats in them to make them last for months and months on the shelves of your local Kwikie Mart. Trans fats are a no- go for countless health reasons.
5) Avoid eating high carb/ high fat foods- Foods such as fettuccine Alfredo or donuts stimulate large insulin spikes, virtually guaranteeing fat storage where you least like it.
6) Avoid eating carbohydrates alone- Carbohydrate- only foods such as a bowl of pasta or rice without a protein component will cause huge insulin surges followed by hunger.
7) Avoid meals devoid of protein- You need to get some protein in every meal. Proteins are the building blocks of muscle, which are the foundation of your metabolism. Higher metabolism = faster fat loss.
8) Avoid skipping breakfast- Going too long between meals is bad for fat loss since it allows your body to slip into starvation mode and prey on your muscle tissue for energy.
9) Avoid alcoholic beverages- When trying to lose weight. Alcohol contains empty calories and actually shuts off the bodies' fat
burning pathways.
10) Avoid fried foods- Such as hash browns, and fried chicken. Another set of foods that screw up your digestion, and wreak havoc on your weight loss endeavors.
The biggest thing you want to add to your diet is fibrous vegetables- they're negative calories.
Lets take a big bowl of fibrous vegetables for example. Let's throw some spinach or romaine lettuce in a big bowl with some tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, sprouts, and some slices of fresh mushroom.
The calories contained in this bowl of vegetables may be around 150.
Since most of the contents have thick, fibrous bodies to break down and digest, your body will need a lot of energy to do the work. The energy (fuel) for the work of breaking down and digesting is the calories already stored in your body.
Eating the vegetables starts the process- chewing needs energy, swallowing needs energy, the processes of the stomach need energy. Lets say the sum total of the demand on the body is 250 calories.
This leaves you with negative 100 calories. Now, you have 100 calories less, stored in your body.
Can you see how this would help with weight loss?
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A hot topic recently is the concept of eating negative calorie foods to lose weight. This quick article will tell you what they are, and how you can use them to lose weight and gain energy.
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