Adequate Carbs! With latest low carb trend it can become difficult, to say least, to figure out what you should be eating especially if you are active! The truth is, when you exercise your muscle burns a type of carbohydrate called glycogen for fuel. To keep these important fuel levels optimal for peak performance, we must eat a diet rich in whole grains, beans, potatoes, and other high-carbohydrate foods. You can’t produce optimal glycogen stores with a high protein low carbohydrate diet. Go for whole grains such as 100% whole wheat breads, brown rice, quinoa, or millet. Limit ‘white’ refined products.

Protein Yes it is true, active people need more protein than average person. It is especially important after our workouts to repair muscle damage. Include lean meats, fish, soy, and eggs. Active people need about 3-4 three-ounce servings a day.

The Low Carb Craze and Other Dieting Mistakes

By: Bill Belfert

Dear BMTers, Low carb this and low carb that…that’s all you hear nowadays. Kinda reminds me of something that was craze a few years ago…The Low or No Fat Craze…Can you remember where that got us? Still Fat!!! Well my friends this Low Carb Craze is going to bring us to same exact place…Yep…Still Fat! Listen, anyone who tries Low carb dieting will experience some Short Term success…but it’s only short term. I know some of you are tired of hearing me repeat myself but any diet or exercise machine in and of itself will not work! A successful Fitness Program must incorporate 5 Strategies: 1. A Compelling Reason to Change

2. Proper Nutrition

3. Progressive Resistance Training

4. Moderate Aerobic Exercise

5. Consistency

If you’re missing any one of these strategies you will not experience success that you crave.

Why Low Carb diets without Progressive Resistance Training will not work in long run.

We need to build lean muscle on our bodies.

Why do we need to build lean muscle on our bodies? Building lean muscle will boost metabolism and that is what we want to achieve.

You’ll even start burning more calories even while you rest.

Right now I’m going to let you in on one of biggest secrets on burning fat ever revealed:

Lean Muscle Burns Fat!

And, more lean muscle you have, more fat you will burn. That is a statement that you can take to bank!

I guarantee it!

Listen, all these people that go on these Fad diets are really losing water and lean muscle weight. They Are Not Losing Any Fat Whatsoever!

How can they be if I just got finished telling you that in order for us to lose any fat,(and I did mean any fat!) you must have lean muscle tissue for fat to go be burned up in?

Our bodies are smart; our fat just can’t go away it must be burned up in a muscle cell.

And if you’re not doing any Progressive Weight Resistance Training, well then, you’re not building any new lean muscle tissue. Which means, you guessed it…you won’t be burning fat any time soon!!!

Don’t you see? The people that go on these Fad (starvation) diets turn into “skinny fat” people. Sure they lose weight, but they lose wrong kind of weight.

Since these people usually don’t perform any weight resistance training and are only probably taking diet pills, and doing hours of aerobic exercise,

they are losing water (from low calorie, low carb diet) and lean muscle (from doing to much aerobic exercise and not having right amount and proper ratios of food in their bodies).

So what is left?

FAT!!!

They have no muscle tone whatsoever! What these people should be doing is learning how to lift weights and get stronger progressively!

The only way to do that is…

Get A Little Stronger Each And Every Workout

If you’re not getting stronger each and every workout than you are doing something wrong!

Then all you have to do is add:

A Compelling Reason to Change, Proper Nutrition, Moderate Aerobic Exercise, and Consistency to be Successful

A great example of dieting wrong way in my opinion is Anna Nicole Smith’s recent “weight loss”.

From a distance she looks great! But get closer and clear smoke and you will find that she transformed herself into what I explained before a “skinny fat person”.

Did you hear her interviewed lately on shows like Larry King Live and Regis and Kelly?

She says she takes Trim Spa’s Ephedra Free Diet Pills. And she eats like only once per day if she’s lucky. And I would bet my life, kids, wife, and house that she never ever does a workout with weights on a consistent basis!!!

So let’s see what happened… Most people think that to lose excess body fat, they must stop eating altogether. This is where they are totally wrong.

Starvation…(what else would you call not eating?) triggers a metabolic response where, your metabolism will actually slow down and become more efficient in order to preserve body tissue in case of a shortage of future nutrition.

This is precisely what we don’t want. Another way people think they’re “eating right” is having fruit & coffee for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and a bowl of pasta for dinner.

– Nope, that’s not answer either. Some people don’t eat anything whole day and “save themselves” for a big huge dinner! That’s not answer either.

To find answer, you have to think back to caveman days. Back then, there were no supermarkets or convenience stores to easily get whatever you want and whenever you want it.

The caveman didn’t know when his next meal was coming. He only ate when he made big kill and would literally gorge and overstuff himself until he couldn’t move! Why? Because he knew that he might not eat again for days or even worse…weeks.