Fit Supermom's Weight Loss Tips

It takes a very careful balancing act with your diet to achieve fat lose without losing muscle.  I’ve put together six top strategies that give you these kind of results.

Eat! Eat! Eat!

• The way to lose body fat without losing muscle mass is to eat more, not less! Eating 6-7 meals throughout the day will Provide the body with protein at regular intervals while limiting muscle loss.
• Reduce the bodies tendency to go into “Survival Mode”, which is where your body starts storing calories as fat when you haven’t eaten for a long period of time.
• Keep energies up by having constant regular blood sugar levels. Not eating for long periods, decreases your blood sugar and makes you tired.
• Decrease body-fat by increasing your resting metabolic rate. Your body can digest smaller meals a lot easier then a few larger ones. By eating every 3 hours, you are helping your body to burn more fat.

Eat clean

Make sure to consume plenty of lean proteins, complex carbs and fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables. Simple carbs like white-flour products(bread,crackers) and sugar(cookies and cakes) can spike up your insulin level and prevent your body from burning fat efficiently.

Sugar – The New Fat

Sugar is everywhere!  It’s in our home and in our supermarkets.  Sometimes it’s in plain site but other times they are hidden with other names that we don’t always recognize:

• Glucose
• Lactose
• maltose
• Fructose
• Sucrose

Some sugars are even sneakier

• Sorbtol
• Xylitol
• Mannitol
• Malitol

If you are trying to reduce the amount of sugar in your diet, it’s important to read nutrition labels and be aware that your body processes foods like white rice and white flour in the same way as it does with sugars found in sweets.

Drink more water

Water is one of the most important nutrients that your body needs.  With the large amounts of carbonated drinks and other surgery drinks, it’s no wonder why our water intake is way below the recommended 8 glasses a day.  Water helps your body with elimination and quicker digestion.  It also has no calories and can serve as an appetite suppressant and helps the body metabolize stored fat.  The over weight person needs more water than the thin one; water helps to maintain proper muscle tone,  and helps relieve constipation which is essential to weight loss.

Eat Protein

Get plenty of lean protein from chicken, fish, and lean beef every day. It can be hard to eat enough through out the day so you can add peanut butter, and use protein supplements if needed. By adding plenty of protein, you are keeping your body from using its own muscle for energy and allowing you metabolism to burn at a higher rate.

Rotate carb amounts

Rotating carbohydrates allows you to control and manipulate your blood sugars and insulin response so you are allowing your body to burn more calories for energy instead of storing excess carbs as fat.  Carbohydrate cycling is the act of lowering your carb intake for 1-2 days and bringing it back up.  This keeps your metabolism from slowing down and makes dieting easier knowing that you can have higher carbs and calories in a few days.

If you have been struggling with weightloss and desire to lose weight fast then look at your carb intake and give the “Carb-Rotation” combined with these stategies,  you will see the results you want to see in no time.

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