Compliments !
But if I asked you, what you have lost, can you answer me??
Any person who decides to follow a low-calorie diet for obvious reasons of weight loss, builds the success of such a diet solely on the response of the scale.
Although it is not my intention to lead a crusade against this instrument, I must acquaint the misleading information it gives you.
Fat burn will tell you that you have lost or gained weight but will not tell you if that weight is fat, muscle, or water.
Let's face it, losing weight does not take a rocket scientist, the important thing is to take less calories than they consume and abracadabra you're done!
This is evidenced by the success of diets appearing in magazines, like the soup, lemon, water and so on, that without having any scientific basis, they can make you lose weight very quickly, at least for the first few weeks. It's right at the beginning your body is taken aback by the extremely low-calorie and unbalanced diet, then managed to deceive decreasing weight.
After a period is forced, for survival purposes, to get used to a reduced nutritional intake, then it adjusts its metabolism to those wretched calories. If you want to continue to reduce weight simply: "also take away what little you eat."
Without speaking, then, of physical activity that is recommended during low-calorie diets. Will impose a moderate aerobic activity (walking at a maximum) otherwise you lose weight on the scale. All the times that you may want to do some 'of activity with weights you reply that the aim is to lose weight and not put muscles, but this statement, as you will see, will leave things as they are.
So: calorie diet + = light aerobic activity program for weight loss.
Just out of curiosity, to detect the percentage of body fat, using a skinfold, impedance or other, before you start and when you finish that fantastic slimming program. You will be shocked!
You lost 5 kg in a week but your percentage of fat is equal to or even higher than the initial fee. But this is of little interest, the important are those 5 kg less. Then continue until things gradually change: you are feeling more and more tired, the weight does not come down more, those walks have become marathons, you look in the mirror and see a body flabby and with those you hate so much love handles. Which is why you decide to make a further cut to that elusive diet by eating only once a day. But even so, things do not seem to change. What happened ?
Simple, you got what you wanted: to lose weight through the destruction of muscle mass which consequently led to decreased metabolism.
At this point it is better to clarify the different roles that have the fat and muscle.
The first is a fabric idle, that is the energy source of our body. To illustrate, by antropologically perspective (periods where the man was a hunter / prey), the man has survived thanks to its high capacity to store energy (fat) that allowed him to overcome long periods of famine and drought. Given that the current human machine is still set with the genes of at least 100,000 years ago, still we tend to store fat and lose it with great difficulty. In this connection, studies have shown that the human body is not able to lose more than 300 - 500g of fat per week, which is why, in the last seven days if you have lost 5 kg, by a simple operation you will find that, if you went all right, you lost 300 - 500g of fat and 4.5 kg of water and lean tissue.
Muscle, however, is an active tissue that needs energy to survive or better the calories you ingest. For the body muscle mass is a considerable energy expenditure, so it does everything to reduce it.
No coincidence that the basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories burned in 24 hours by our body for survival) is directly proportional to muscle mass. The more muscle you have, the higher your basal metabolic rate and more calories burned.
Returning to the theme of this article, the low-calorie diet plus the gentle hike have greatly reduced your weight by consuming most of the muscles. Since the latter, as we said a moment ago, are directly proportional to the basal metabolic rate, your body will be in a real war footing, which will try to always burn fewer calories and store more fat to survive (a little curiosity: you know that anorexics have an almost equal percentage of fat to obese people?).
Drawing conclusions, they will after a year and even more (these mistakes at a young age are absorbed by a body able to support all the "horrors" that you impose, but sooner or later, will bill) to own a high percentage of fat and eat like the ants and to add any food, even the most healthy, will make you fat.
Tired of the situation will begin to go to the gym asking the instructor on duty why you can not lose weight despite your efforts, the answer is always the same: "YOU SO" RAPED "YOUR BODY, WITH UNHEALTHY DIET THAT NOW IS NOT RESPONDING MORE 'IN YOUR WILL. "
All this happens because we want IMMEDIATE results, we can not know what will happen tomorrow or who damage our health, the important thing is to lose weight.
I never tire of repeating: "We must correct our eating HABITS without subjecting us to senseless stupid diets."
THE STRENGTH OF A PROPER POWER, OR SKILL OF AN EXPERT FOOD IS TO MAKE YOU LOSE FAT NOT ALWAYS THE SAME WITH THE WEIGHT LOSS.
If an intelligent diet you join a smart workout results can only be amplified.
In this regard, allow me to suggest the physical Culture.
This choice is not made by my passion for this sport but for the many studies I've read, and that led me, again, to the same conclusion.
You still goodness and patience to follow my argument:
If we alternate aerobics with a mildly hypocaloric diet a bit 'of weights, we will be able to sustain or even increase muscle mass.
This slight increase of the muscles will allow us later to raise the basal metabolism which as we said is directly proportional to the muscle mass.
Certainly the process will be much slower, compared with only aerobic exercise, but:
1) You will lose a lot more fat
2) Do not lose your precious muscle mass as well as give you a nice appearance you need to increase the basal metabolic rate.
3) Once you have put a single pound of muscle you can eat more without fear of getting fat.
4) The more time passes, the more your body will become active allowing you to satisfy your taste buds with all those foods that before there were strictly prohibited (with due attention paid).
Virtually become the opposite of those people to lose weight in the shortest possible time, they followed a low calorie diet without thinking of their muscle tone and now have to give up all those dishes that are coveted and in addition find themselves with kilos of fat mass more.
You might answer me that the muscles do not like. I can even agree with you, but you must be aware that increasing muscle mass is difficult for all the guys who like me follow a high-calorie diet, have a favorable hormonal status (date from a young age), using food supplements etc .. ., let alone people who follow a low calorie diet.
