Eat to Lose Fat Train to maintain muscle
Written by Mike Cheliak on August 12, 2009 – 1:45 pm -A friend of mine and a brilliant eBook publisher Brad Pilon recently wrote a couple articles about losing weight (fat). The basic message is that we need to eat less to lose fat and train properly in order to maintain/gain muscle.
Too many times you will see people in the “Cardio Confessional” thinking they can out train a bad diet. Not so. The amount of calories you burn is insignificant compared to what you intake. Learning your body means learning what your threshold for weight gain, loss or maintenance is. This simply means that everyone…I MEAN EVERYONE…has a different formula that will produce the results they want.
This sounds daunting, complicated and potentially expensive. It may sound that way, but isn’t any of those things. The key is to simplify your plan. Making choices in food is as simple as this. 90% of the time, you need to eat whole, healthy, nutritious foods. 10% of the time you can stray from your plan and indulge in something that you truly crave. This isn’t a licence to binge but rather a little “release valve” for us everyday folks who just want to enjoy a little now and then.
The other key is to plan a workout regimen that you enjoy and stick to. Exercise is mandatory in maintaining good health. It increases our quality of life, provides a stress release and also should provide a positive social environment to interact with. When you surround yourself with people who are healthy and like minded, it will help you to stick to your program.
The combination of simplified nutrition and enjoyable physical fitness is something anyone of any age can do successfully. I myself follow a program of Intermittent fasting and simplified healthy food choices like ones outlined in The Diet Solution by Isabel De Los Rios. Neither are complicated and both plans are great tools in finding your “zone”.
The key is not the nutrition plan you choose but the ability to stick to it. Remember that simple is better and no one plan is right for everyone. YOU have to adapt it to your lifestyle, your requirements and your goals.
In happiness and health as always,
Mike C.
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