Nabilah Fountain
http://liveintheskinny.wordpress.com
When it comes to dropping those unwanted
circumference measurements. Weight isn’t the main
LBs, many people opt for the restriction on calories
focus and is only used to calculate body fat and track
method. You know…Calories in vs. calories out. And
for proper body compositional changes. With a fat
until recently, this has been what most nutritionists
loss approach, you will have longer lasting results and
and even medical doctors have recommended
an increased metabolism that will continue to burn
to their clients. The problem is this philosophy is
fat efficiently throughout the day. Now let’s go back
geared towards weight loss and really has no impact
to “why” calorie restricted diets are geared towards
on fat loss. Why? Before we go into the why let’s
weight loss and has no real impact on dropping
discuss the difference between the two. Weight loss
stubborn fat. When you restrict calories, you
encompasses pounds dropped during a dieting
dramatically influence hormones that synergistically
cycle. There is no real focus on body composition
work together to help balance and stabilize your
because the main concern is watching the scale
metabolism. Disrupting these hormones will
needle move to the left. With weight loss you are
result in increased hunger, decreased energy and
primarily losing muscle and water with a minimal
uncontrollable cravings. All of which are not
amount of fat being burned. When muscle is broken
conducive to fat loss. Eating for fat loss means eating
down due to lack of nutritional support and exercise,
fat loss foods. Foods rich in protein and fiber, not low
you are essentially breaking down your metabolic
calorie garbage. Keeping your insulin regulated is
machinery that burns fat and disrupting hormones
also important because when insulin is present in the
that aid in the fat burning process. This is why
body it acts as a fat lock hormone which means excess
calorie restricted diets result in, for
calories will be stored as fat and will not be used
the most part, a huge regression
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for energy. Finally combining a safe and effective
in progress. Fat loss, on the
workout with a well designed fat loss program will
other hand, focuses on body
not only have you burning fat like wild fire but keep
composition; body fat and
your metabolism stoked for years to come.