Saturday, February 14, 2009

2 Essential Food Repairs for Fast Weight Loss!

By Frances Norah Smith

You may be pondering: "what are food repairs for?" Well, as a matter of fact, most of the diet plans out there have certain common loopholes, and these food repairs are processes to correct those loopholes. These loopholes, if not corrected, would prevent you from losing weight and might actually increase your body weight instead!

Many of the fad diet plans out there are either incomplete or broken. If we follow these diets "as is", then we are sure to go in the wrong direction. For example, most diets would advice you to cut down heavily on your food intake. When you do that, you gain weight instead of losing it! Plus you suffer from malnutrition and lack of energy! Studies have pointed out that women who eat 400 calories less than their stipulated calorie requirements tend to suffer from abdominal obesity; in simple words, they acquire fat bellies!

These food repairs will help you achieve your weight loss goals faster than otherwise!

1. Concentrate on protein rather than carbs: While carbs are an important ingredient of any healthy meal plan, what you should concentrate on is protein, in particular when you are trying to lose weight. Unlike carbs which give you short, sudden bursts of energy that last only for a short while, protein will keep you energetic for a longer time. With carbs, your body will gain more fat than energy; with protein, it is just the opposite.

Protein also assists you build strong lean muscle mass. Since lean muscles require a lot of energy to be maintained, your body has to burn your existing fat deposits in order to create the extra energy. So that is another mean how protein can assist weight loss!

2. Skipping breakfast should be avoided: Skipping breakfast is something most of the very overweight people do; they have a tendency to think that they will lose weight if they don't eat breakfast. This is the usual misconception. Actually, the opposite happens. When you don't eat breakfast, you are sending a signal to your body that there is a famine out there, and that to combat it, your body needs to store energy in the form of fat deposits.

When you starve, your body slows down your metabolism and stores fat instead of burning it! As you can see, skipping breakfast will have a negative effect on your body.

Breakfast is ideally there for one reason: to "break the fast"; that is, to offer your body with the first surge of energy. When your body gets enough food, it produces lots of energy and your metabolic rate is automatically increased. When that happens, you start losing weight!

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