Are you confused about how to lose weight
healthy way? Have you tried all fad diets on market and still are frustrated about weight loss? Do you know just how much protein is enough? Are you confused about carbs? Are you wondering why weight won’t stay off? Just what is a healthy diet?There are many aspects to a healthy weight loss program, and to help you sift through faddish information, here are two keys you should know. You need to know your body’s protein requirements and know your resting metabolic rate. These two points are a sensible place to start when you are looking for a program that will help you lose weight and keep it off, forever!
Just why is protein so important? Protein helps you to build and maintain lean muscle. Apart from creating a pleasing body shape and providing your body with strength, lean muscle burns calories and helps to keep your metabolic rate up. If you do not have enough protein in your diet, you will compromise your body’s lean muscle tissue and not build your best personal shape. Another wonderful aspect of protein is that it signals to brain a feeling of fullness. This in turn, controls your appetite, making weight loss easier!
How much protein do you need for healthy weight loss? To know this you need to find out your personal lean body mass. Your lean body mass is weight of everything except weight of your fat, muscles, bones, organs and fluids. A weight loss professional may be able to measure lean body mass. However without equipment for a precise reading general rule for healthy weight loss is 1 gram of protein for every pound of lean body mass. If you weigh 100 pounds, then your maximum level of protein would be 100 grams.
Usually when we think of protein, we think of red meat, chicken, turkey, fish and cheese. However, if you tried to eat all protein your body required by eating meats (and many cheeses), you would be consuming too many calories. Protein in these forms often comes with additional fat and that means unwanted calories. This would work counter to your weight loss goals so we should go carefully with these forms of protein.
There are other ways to obtain your body’s proteins needs with fewer fat calories. Soy protein is highest quality plant protein available. It is a great source for amino acids your body needs as well as antioxidants that help maintain healthy cells. Soy protein does not have high fat calories, and is long acting and slowly metabolized (helping you to keep feeling full). Some high-protein, low calorie drinks can help meet these protein needs as well as being an enjoyable food source.
