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Unless you are willing to accept the dangers and risks of ketosis, your fat loss plan should include a balanced diet. Why? Because a balanced diet will give you more energy per calories consumed.
Even on a balanced diet, however, you can still gain fat. Thus, it is critical for you to understand how different macronutrients get used and stored in your body.
So without further delay, here is how nutrients get stored as fat in your body:
Keeping your body healthy in a world where greasy fast food and unhealthy junk food is easily available is pretty tough. It is not easy to choose between delicious yet unhealthy junk food such as french fries, sweets, pastries and healthy options like fruits and vegetables.
It is always pretty easy to grab fast food as sustenance when on the go without thinking about the consequence of what it does to your body. So, when one has to choose between a delicious burger and a plate of fresh green salad, many will choose the burger. Eating unhealthy food all the time will cause obesity and also other health conditions like diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and heart disease.
Do you constantly check the scale? Are you constantly discouraged by the readings? Well, please understand that even though the scale is going up, you may be making progress.
In fact, many women actually gain weight while losing fat when just starting off with an exercise program. Especially if there is a lot of resistance training involved. Why does this happen? Because of H20.
The issue most women have is identifying what is causing the excess water gain. So in this article I’ll show you 5 things that could be causing you to gain weight instantly:
In a never-ending effort to come up with new angles on fat loss, the health industry has created a slew of fad diets over the years. One type of diet that has gained traction is fasting.
Unfortunately, fasting has some major drawbacks for your body and for fat loss. Thus, here are 6 reasons why fasting will thwart your fat loss efforts:
1. Liver glycogen depletion. This happens in less than a DAY. Liver glycogen depletion is not fun by any stretch of the imagination. Why? Because liver glycogen (stored carbohydrate) is responsible for maintaining your blood sugar. Once it’s depleted, expect some rock bottom energy levels.
Top scientists believe that weight gain is being caused by many things, there is no single enemy here. Therefore, your struggles with body fat is most likely caused by a variety of negative variables.
Now in an earnest attempt to figure all of this out, researchers around the globe have come up with many theories for the root cause of weight gain. And although these theories shouldn’t be taken as final explanations, they do provide insights as to why you may be gaining weight.
Thus, here are some explanations of excess weight gain:
Increasing your BMR is the most sustainable way to ensure continual fat loss. Why? Because your BMR dictates how many calories you burn around the clock, even while sleeping.
Unfortunately, you’ve probably been fed a bunch of lies when it comes to BMR and how to raise it. Extract X, for instance, will not significantly raise your BMR no matter what the infomercial says.
So without further ado, here are some things that really affect BMR and fat loss:
1. Chronological age. As the years go by so does muscle. One of the main causes of disease with age is the loss of muscle mass. And muscle mass has a very strong influence over BMR.
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