Improve Your Eating Habits
Posted on June 28, 2008, under Health.
For people wanting to lose body fat the build muscle, taking the correct approach is very important, people who start with the objective of fat loss end up losing mostly muscle and water.
In order to build muscle and lose body fat you require no special foods, you eat the food you always ate but you just make adjustments in when and how much you eat.Following are tips that can help you enhance your metabolic rate and turn your body into a fat burning machine.
Never skip meals:
Try to eat at least 4-5 times a day as eating smaller quantity and frequently enhances your metabolic rate.If your body does not get a consistent supply of calories, it starts eating onto your muscle tissue which is worse, as lesser muscle would mean slower metabolic rate.On the other hand, overeating at one time will ensure that extra food or calories will get stored as body fat.
Include weight training in your fitness routine:
Vigorous resistance training will increase lean body mass or muscle.Since muscle tissue neds to burns calories to survive itself in the body, gaining every pound of muscle would mean that your body is burning more calories.
Do not drastically reduce your calories intake:
Most of the weight loss would come from muscle loss which is worse as lesser muscle weight would mean slower metabolic rate.Reduce only 25% of your overall calorie intake and keep your protein intake high so that there is no muscle wastage in the process of fat loss.Following extremely low calorie diets can permanently reduce your metabolic rate.
Decrease your fat intake:
Do not fry food or use very less oil in preparation, instead bake, boil or microwave food.One gram of fat has 9 calories compared to protein and carbohydrates which have only four 4 calories per gram.Eating food rich in fat would only increase your calorie intake and interfere with the process of fat loss.Avoid eating outside and processed food as they are usually high in fat and calorie content.
