Weight Loss For Men

Weight loss for men and women is different. Mostly this is due to hormones and muscle to fat ration that is naturally different between the two sexes . Or at least this is my understanding.

Weight Loss For Men

Men often want to gain muscle while they lose fat. The question is can you lose fat and gain muscle at the same time? The answer in a nut shell is no, because these are two very different processes that the body must perform.

Building muscle is anabolic, which means you must have a caloric intake that is a surplus to what your body needs to maintain a particular weight.

Losing weight or rather burning fat is catabolic meaning that you have a calorie deficit, or you are actually on a diet consuming less calories than you need for your daily activities.

Therefore it is impossible to actually gain muscle and burn fat at the exact same time.

But what about during a given time frame…?  Say over 8 or 12 weeks.

Could it be possible to gain lean muscle and burn fat by alternating your caloric intake?

From what I have read yes this is possible though it is very difficult to do. They call it nutrient timing. Apparently you have to know exactly what to eat, when to eat and how much to eat and how these work together to get the body to respond in a certain manner.

Sounds complicated don’t it? Some plans are so vigorous that it would be a full time job just keeping track of your caloric and protein intake and balance all of that with lifting heavy weights and cardio.

If you have a BMI of over 15% you might want to focus on losing fat first. This way once you have gotten close to your desired weight you can begin working on building muscle.

The reason I say loss the fat first is because when you diet the average person loses 50% fat and 50% muscle… Bet you didn’t know that did you?  So if you start by gaining muscle then go on a reduced calorie diet you could actually lose every once of muscle you gained.

If you lose the muscle you gained then all of your work would have been wasted, you would have gained nothing.

Now that you know that dieting can cost you a pound of muscle for each pound of fat you lose you might be thinking that your damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Losing muscle also means losing more fat burning potential. Which means it will take even longer to lose each consecutive pound of fat. A healthy BMI is not a number on a scale it is the direct ratio of fat to lean muscle.

To help prevent losing lean muscle while losing fat I would strongly suggest looking into a very particular weight loss supplement that can help drastically reduce the amount of muscle you lose by 50% while burning off fat at rate of 25% faster.

This way when or if you start to build muscle you will have a head start compared to where you would be otherwise.

When it gets tough, Get Inspired!

We all need inspiration. When it gets difficult it is easy to just throw in the towel, call it quits or put it off until to tomorrow. But the fact is if you keep doing what you have been doing, you will keep getting what you have been getting.

 Inspiration To Keep Pushing Through

Comes in many forms. Sometimes we just need a little nudge by a friend, sometimes we find the strength within ourselves to push just a little bit harder, reach farther and go longer than the day before.

This is what will make a positive change in your body that will have lasting effects. Whether you are jogging, running or walking, whether you are strength training or doing cardio exercises keeping motivated in key.

In fact keeping motivated in the key to achieving success in life. We are motivated to go to work, even though we may hate our jobs. We are motivated to lose weight, be lean and have a healthy lifestyle because we want to live longer and be there for our friends and families.

Sometimes that motivation comes from being inspired because someone says something like, “You want to accomplish anything in life you can’t just sit back and hope that it will happen, you’ve got to make it happen” Chuck Norris. Of course the words “get off your fat ass and do something” never worked for me.

One Of My favorite Places to Backpack

But being inspired by my kids wanting to go backpacking with me to one of my favorite places, Wilderness Pocket,  is a great motivational thought.

Lose this excess weight is not only helping my knee problem but it will also help me carry a heavy backpack 6 miles into the forrest.

But more importantly it will give me the ability to spend valuable time with my kids, who are all grown by the way, before they are restricted with their own families of little crumb peckers.

My inspiration come directly from me wanting to be there with my kids and wanting to be able to enjoy life as it was 25 years ago.

You too must find your inspiration or you will quit. Choosing to lose weight is a choosing to change your life.

Nutrition Packed

Over the years we have all heard of the good, bad and ugly of chicken fruit.  Usually we hear more bad thing than good about eggs.

Eggs are a good part of a healthy fat loss diet

Some experts have said that eating this self contained, nutritionally packed, yet highly versatile component of many recipes is dangerous for your health. Then again I have heard the same said for sugar. Though do agree that too much sugar is not good for you, sugar itself is much better for you than any artificial sweetener.

Eggs have gotten a bad rap over the years for contributing to high cholesterol in people among other things.  In fact just the other day I heard a news story recently about how eggs now have 17% less cholesterol then they originally thought. But, it is true that you can get seriously ill eating raw eggs. This includes eating them sunny-side-up and using a biscuit to sop up the runny, uncooked yolk.  Oh no…  I am not one to stomach such an unappealing mess and call it a meal.

But, I do like eggs and I do think that they are good for you or at the very least much better for you than their reputation. Let me give you the break down on Chicken Fruit.

Eggs and Fat Loss

As we have talked about on other posts protein is a very important part of fat loss. Protein helps you to feel full longer, helping reduce the urge to snack and foil your fat loss plan.

But protein must be accompanied by amino acids in order to have any real nutritional benefit. Eggs are little chicks that have not begun to grow, therefore they must be packed with the nutrition  needed in order for life to happen.

This includes essential the amino acids in the proper proportion  needed to convert the protein to muscle. But eggs also have other nutritional qualities not to be ignored.

• Vitamins such as A, B, B6, B12, D, E, niacin, pantothenic acid and choline just to name a few. There is no Vitamin C in eggs.
• Minerals such as calcium, iron, Phosphorus, Selenium, Magnesium, copper and Zinc.
• They are very low in carbohydrates in fact 5 large eggs only provide 17% of your daily carb needs.
• Eggs are very low on the glycemic index. in fact 5 large eggs have a GI of only 2.

I have found that eating 3 boiled eggs, 2 in the morning and 1 later as a snack have helped me drastically curb my cravings for other snack foods. And besides 2 large eggs are about the size of my fist which is supposed to be the size of my stomach making over eating less likely as well.

So Chicken Fruit is a great fat loss food and I highly recommend them as a part of your fat loss regimen.

Fat Loss Round 2

After spraining my ankle so bad that I could barely walk, doing any exercise would have been impossible. So I have spent nearly the last 2 weeks letting the healing happen and doing some websurfing that lead to a couple of interesting discoveries that I think you will find helpful in your own quest for a leaner, more fit body.

If you are like me you are interested in anything that can help get your weight or really your body mass index to a healthy level. Now I am not saying that it will all be easy but I am all about doing things the easiest way that I can.

I am going to be sharing with you the things that I have learned over the past few days that will help you take a short cut so to speak. If nothing else these tips could shed some light on what you can do to help speed up the fat burning process and provide your body with the nutrition that it so desperately needs.

Walking Again

Today as well as yesterday I went for a 3 mile walk. My walk was not really a fast one and at times it was more like a limp but the movement was needed and I know that it did some good because my heart rate got up and staying elevated for quite a while.

I am hopeful that my ankle will lose all of its tenderness and be string enough to start doing more difficult and strength training exercise. Till then I will just take it one day at a time and strive to do the best that I can given what I have.

Sterling