Fat Loss Fast Diet: November 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

A Look on Diet Fitness

Nowadays, Many people are very much conscious about their own health and fitness. In addition to that, these people, and many others as well, are now having that desire to sculpt their bodies to achieve that magazine-cover look. As a result, gyms, health spas and other fitness centers have proliferated all over to cater to the needs of the fitness buffs and aficionados.

Even on television exercise machines, weight loss products, and other paraphernalia to improve fitness have more or less gained control over the airwaves and made their way into the households. But exerise is not the only way to build that body beautiful. It also entails certain amount of responsibility on the foods one chooses to eat. Being healthy and fit requires one to observe diet fitness.

Diet fitness is as essential as exercise itself. Diet for fitness provides the essential nutrition one needs to restore worn-out muscles and for healthy growth. Diet fitness should never be taken for granted. With the popularity of keeping fit, many different views, methods, programs and dieting strategies have been formulated by many professionals. Among these are high carb diets and high fat diets. Whih one is more effective and which one should one choose to follow?

First thing to know would be the fundamental differences between these two diet approaches. As the name implies, high carb diets concentrates on taking in carbohydrate-rich foods while high fat diets endorses fat-rich foods. High carb diets are utilized to glycogen stored in the liver and muscles. Glycogen is a glucose complex that provides large amounts of energy ready for use in anaerobic exercises.

Fats, on the other hand, is well-nown for being the richest source of calories. It actually contains 2.5 times more calories than carbohydrates and proteins alike. Studies also show that it takes the body 24 calories to metabolize carbohydrates while it only takes 3 to burn down fat. So which one to follow? A person can follow a high carb and low fat fitness diet or the other way around. It is absolutely not recommended to follow both at the same time; unless of course if you want to gain body fat.

But then diet fitness is not all about losing fat, one must also consider his diet in order to keep fat away. Research shows that sustainable loss of weight can only be achieved on a diet which suits the individual food preferences, lifestyle, medical profile and satiety signals.

Diet programs all over can help you shed off excess pounds, but only one diet can help you stay sexy, and it is the one that satisfies you most. Other important aspects of having a fit diet are moderation, balance and variation. One must be careful not to leave out important nutrients and other substances necessary for healthy body functioning. health organizations are clear about the amounts of nutrients an individual should have in the body.

Low fat high carbs, high carbs low fat; the question is not which diet program will work out but which is it that will work for you. Striving for a sexy and healthy body does not have to burden an individual, diet fitness does not have to mean sticking to the same kind of food for life. One may even try to be adventurous and try out new foods out there. Who knows? one may even discover spinach interesting.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Metabolism

You sigh and said “I could live on salads and cottage cheese and still gain weight." You think you just have a slow metabolism. Ah, the typical cop-out of the weak-willed dieter, right? Not necessarily.

Suppose you see two women sitting side by side on a park bench. Both weigh 140 pounds, though one is quite lean and the other has a substantial amount of body fat. If they are sharing a box lunch, which one should get more food? In other words, which one has a faster metabolism, or rate of calorie burning?.

Calorie requirement is proportional to the amount of lean muscle each woman has, among other things. Fat needs fewer calories to maintain it; basically, it just sits there. So the lean woman gets a little more chicken—and the biscuit.

Muscle is your calorie-burning factory, so to speak. Mitochondria, the energy powerhouse of cells, in your muscles are like heat-and energy-producing furnaces, while enzymes are the laborers stoking the furnaces with fuel. Aerobically trained muscles have more laborers and larger, more efficient furnaces than do untrained, weak muscles. And the furnaces are better adapted to burning fat for fuel—not only while you’re swimming laps, but also later on when you’re pitching horseshoes or just sitting and knitting. “So how can I get more of this fat-burning muscle?”

Only one way: muscles fall into the use-‘em-or-lose-‘em category. They shrink from disuse as we get older, one of the main reasons our metabolism slows from 2 to 5 percent every 10 years—enough to account for 25 of our additional fat-pounds by the time we hit 60. And these changes in body composition can occur even with little or no change in body weight. Women theoretically have slower metabolic rates than men because they have more fat and less muscle. But a lean, athletic woman might require just as much food as an out-of-shape male her same size.

Even if you’re not “athletic,” physical activity is a great way to increase metabolic output from muscles you already have. For one thing, your metabolism remains in higher gear (burning more calories) anywhere from an hour to a day or more after a strenuous workout. Physical effort also sends a message to build more muscle, making your factory bigger and thus more productive. The bottom line is increased calorie combustion, making it easier to stay lean even in the face of inevitable eating excesses. For Living Lean purposes, mighty muscle means maximum metabolism.