The Top Two Essential Factors For Weight Loss
If you’re currently looking for a weight loss program, you have lots of options. Almost everywhere you turn there are weight loss diets and weight loss workouts being thrown at you – each claiming to offer ‘amazing’ results.
It can be difficult to determine which one is really going to work – and get you closer to your fat loss goals, while which programs are going to cause you to waste unnecessary time feeling deprived, while not getting the results you were hoping for.
Here are the two main factors that any weight loss program must have.
A Way Of Monitoring Calories
Let’s face the facts, basic thermodynamics state that matter cannot be created or destroyed. This applies to weight loss in a major way because when you have more energy coming in than what’s required by your body, like it or not, you’re gaining weight. The body has to do something with that incoming energy, and it’s three choices are to:
A. expend it as energy (which will happen until energy needs are met)
B. use it to build new muscle tissue (which will also happen up to a point assuming you are resistance training as well).
C. convert the incoming energy to body fat stores.
Guess which one your body has been doing a little too frequently? Obviously, the answer is C.
Therefore, in order to get fat loss moving, you absolutely must have a way of tracking total calories to some degree.
Some plans use a point system, some use an exchange system, and some just have you counting calories as it is.
Whatever the method, a successful weight loss diet will monitor calorie intake.
Contain Sufficient Protein
Next up, the second major factor that absolutely must be in place if you are going to have results on your weight loss program is that is needs to contain sufficient protein.
Without enough protein, you risk losing muscle mass tissue, which will then cause the metabolic rate to slow down. In order to effectively maintain this tissue then, you should be consuming no less than one gram of protein per day; more if the diet is quite low in calories.
Having this additional protein in there will help provide a small excess to the body in case it starts turning to protein as fuel.
So, have a good look over your current weight loss diet. Does it contain these two vital factors? If not, it’s time you found another one.
You simply cannot miss these two points if you want to have success with losing body fat (note that I said body fat, not body weight – the two can be highly different).
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