So far on this blog, I talked about everything you need to know to lose weight. But, if you want to ultimately lose not only weight, but fat while maintaining muscle, you’ll need to go beyond the idea of just eating fewer calories.
Believe it or not, the types of calories you consume matters for several reasons:
- If most of your calories come from highly processed, refined carbohydrates, you’ll quickly reach your calorie limit without feeling full. Examples of these types of foods are essentially the carbs that come in a packaged snack bag like chips, candies, and cakes.
- If most of your calories come from foods that don’t keep you full, you’ll constantly want to eat, which may lead to quitting your diet before seeing your results.
- And if most of your calories come from foods with inadequate protein, you’ll lose a lot of muscle during your calorie reduction, which will jeopardize your toned or hard body look that we’re after.
So, in the next few articles we’ll go over macronutrients, including what they are and my recommendations for how much to eat of each and why.
When you finish reading the next few articles on this site, I’d like you to understand five things.
- I want you to understand the macronutrients and how they relate to calories so you can understand the importance of a low fat, low alcohol, and low-sugar diet when it comes to getting lean.
- I want you to understand how to read nutrition labels, so you can choose high protein but low-calorie foods on your journey to building muscle and getting lean.
- I want you to understand why and how all diets work so your friends and family can stop telling you to “just use keto” or “paleo” or any other type of diet.
- I want you to be comfortable eating whatever you want if you can stay under your required calories.
- Last, I want you to understand how to deal with restaurant calories, so you can choose whether you want restaurant foods as a staple in your diet.
