Eating More Protein To Lose Weight
We already know that in dieting, you need to make sure that you keep your protein intake high in order to avoid burning off your muscle tissues. However, this article is not going to talk about that. What I’m going to share with you is how to use protein to help you boost your metabolism and increase your ability to burn fat.
A recent study published by the American Journal of Physiology shows a distinct result between 2 groups that were given a high protein diet and another group consuming a protein diet near equal to the recommended daily allowance.
The group with high protein consumption was found to burn more fat as in comparison to the other group. One reason for this is the increase of “thermic” effect. As much as 42% of thermic effect has been recorded from the group with high protein diet as compared to 16% from the RDA group.
The thermic effect occurs approximately 1 hour after eating. This is why eating every 2 to 3 hours over 6 meals a day is recommended to take advantage of this metabolic rate Therefore, the more you eat, the higher your metabolic rate becomes which means the higher the calories your body burns every day.
Additionally, by just adding protein to each meal could increase your metabolism. This is because your body needs more calories to process the proteins than just to digest carbohydrates. This is the reason why I beg to disagree to all those people who call themselves experts and have continually said that a calorie is just a calorie.
This is simply not true! Our body’s metabolic rate depends entirely on the meals we eat, the frequency between that meals, and energy and composition of those meals.
In layman’s terms, a calorie is not simply a calorie, and they have never been equal.
Basically there are three factors that will affect the person’s metabolism and that is the number of meals, the frequency of meals, and the macro nutrient composition of those meals.
I have outlined below very simple changes you need to implement in your diet that will help you build muscles and burn fats at the same time.
1. Try to eat six meals a day as compared to 2 or 3 larger ones. This will make sure that your body will have the nutrients it needs to build muscles and burn fat. This will also prevent your body from entering into “starvation” mode, which happens if you go too long between meals. When this happened your body will burn the muscle for energy and attempts to store fats, and ultimately slowing your metabolism. These are the things that you need to avoid. In fact, these are exactly the opposites from what you are trying to achieve.
2. Consume a high protein diet that consists of at least 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body mass. This will make sure that your body has enough resources to maintain positive nitrogen balance thereby increasing your muscle mass.
These are just simple changes that you can do in your nutrition program and will definitely increase the buildup of your muscle mass, the burning of unwanted fats, achieving a husky body that you have always been dreaming of. For women, these changes will help them develop long, sexy, and sculpted body, they have been longing for.
We already know that in dieting, you need to make sure that you keep your protein intake high in order to avoid burning off your muscle tissues. However, this article is not going to talk about that. What I’m going to share with you is how to use protein to help you boost your metabolism and increase your ability to burn fat.
A recent study published by the American Journal of Physiology shows a distinct result between 2 groups that were given a high protein diet and another group consuming a protein diet near equal to the recommended daily allowance.
The group with high protein consumption was found to burn more fat as in comparison to the other group. One reason for this is the increase of “thermic” effect. As much as 42% of thermic effect has been recorded from the group with high protein diet as compared to 16% from the RDA group.
The thermic effect occurs approximately 1 hour after eating. This is why eating every 2 to 3 hours over 6 meals a day is recommended to take advantage of this metabolic rate Therefore, the more you eat, the higher your metabolic rate becomes which means the higher the calories your body burns every day.
Additionally, by just adding protein to each meal could increase your metabolism. This is because your body needs more calories to process the proteins than just to digest carbohydrates. This is the reason why I beg to disagree to all those people who call themselves experts and have continually said that a calorie is just a calorie.
This is simply not true! Our body’s metabolic rate depends entirely on the meals we eat, the frequency between that meals, and energy and composition of those meals.
In layman’s terms, a calorie is not simply a calorie, and they have never been equal.
Basically there are three factors that will affect the person’s metabolism and that is the number of meals, the frequency of meals, and the macro nutrient composition of those meals.
I have outlined below very simple changes you need to implement in your diet that will help you build muscles and burn fats at the same time.
1. Try to eat six meals a day as compared to 2 or 3 larger ones. This will make sure that your body will have the nutrients it needs to build muscles and burn fat. This will also prevent your body from entering into “starvation” mode, which happens if you go too long between meals. When this happened your body will burn the muscle for energy and attempts to store fats, and ultimately slowing your metabolism. These are the things that you need to avoid. In fact, these are exactly the opposites from what you are trying to achieve.
2. Consume a high protein diet that consists of at least 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body mass. This will make sure that your body has enough resources to maintain positive nitrogen balance thereby increasing your muscle mass.
These are just simple changes that you can do in your nutrition program and will definitely increase the buildup of your muscle mass, the burning of unwanted fats, achieving a husky body that you have always been dreaming of. For women, these changes will help them develop long, sexy, and sculpted body, they have been longing for.