Friday, December 26, 2008
Eat Differently
Diets fail. We all know this, but why do they fail? One of the main reasons is that they center around low fat diets. Low fat diets can suppress the manufacture of testosterone. Testosterone helps the building of muscle and the burning of fat. When testosterone levels are low your body stores fat. In one stud, men with higher testosterone were 75 percent less likely to be obese.
Another reason why diets fail is because they don't make enough use of the most powerful nutrient for building muscle and speeding up your metabolism. As I've mentioned before, digesting protein burns up more calories than digesting other foods, plus it builds fat burning muscle. You're getting 2 for the price of one. But even in the realms of protein, you'll find that some proteins are better than others. A study was done to see the difference eating animal protein would have against eating soy protein. The animal protein (meat) burned more calories despite the fact that there was less of it. Therefore animal protein is superior to plant protein.
Diets also limit your intake. We all know what its like having to nibble on a few celery sticks for breakfast and then a wheat cracker for lunch. At some point you are going to snap and when that happens you're probably going stuff your face with all the great tasting rubbish out there and be in a worse position than before you even started the diet. People still think that the best way to lose weight is to eat hardly anything and sweat yourself to death on a treadmill and thats why diets fail more often than not.
You have to change the way you eat. Before you were counting the calories of the food that you were putting in to your body. Now you are going to be counting the calories that the food you're putting in is burning!
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