Ok you’ve cut calories and increased your exercise. Your burning more calories than you are taking in…..By rights you should be losing (but you aren’t!)
What is going wrong?
It’s time to think back to the long term benefits of weightloss balanced with muscle conditioning METABOLISM.
Your metabolism is a measure of how many calories you are burning each day. The holistic view of metabolism should be exercise, nutrition and your lifestyle choices as a whole. If your idea of being smart with your eating is to skip breakfast and save the consumption of foods for the latter part of the day your are having an extremely negative effect on your body’s ability to fire up its metabolism. You will slow your metabolism ensuring your body’s metabolism falls into a starvation mode.

Think about it?

If you skipped breakfast by the time you get to lunch your famished. Your body is thinking give me food and give it to me quick. Your bodys response “Finally some food. I will have store some this because I just don’t know when this guys going to feed me again”.

RESULT FAT STORAGE.

Here’s some great ways to keep your metabolism fired up:

1. Don’t starve yourself.
2. Eat 6-8 small meals evenly distributed throughout the day.
3. Never ever think of skipping breakfast, even make yourself up a quick smoothie.
4. Consume protein especially with your lunch and dinner it gives your meal its satiety as well as providing essential amino acids and vitamins.
5. Weight train or perform some resistance exercise such as squats, push-ups, pull ups etc.
6. Ensure you get adequate sleep to keep those cortisol levels down (8 hours recommended)