i go to the gym and have been tryin to shed some belly fat off me and 10 month later i start readin how im not really losin anything.dont get is wrong ive toned up and that but knowin this 10 month ago would have helped me.heres a few pointers
Protein
Protein is an extremely important part of all diet plans. That's why you have most likely never heard of any
low protein diets, and also why you probably HAVE heard of protein supplements. That's because your body needs protein,
and lots of it. It is the building block of muscle. Protein is measured by the gram. 1 gram of protein is equal to
4 calories. So, if you are eating something that has 20 grams of protein in it, that means that whatever you are
eating is at least 80 calories. In case you failed 2nd grade math, that was 20 grams of protein multiplied by 4 calories
per gram... 20 x 4 = 80
Carbs
Carbs (or "carbohydrates" for the people who don't mind typing 8 extra letters)
is another of the three main elements that make up calories. I have a feeling that of the three,
carbs are the most confusing for people creating diet plans. I think the reason for that is because everything
you enjoy eating has carbs in it. Hell, everything you don't enjoy eating has carbs in it. Carbs are in almost
everything and therefore seem to be the hardest for people to manipulate within a diet plan. Just like protein,
1 gram of carbs is equal to 4 calories. So, if you were eating something that had 20 grams of protein and 10 grams of carbs,
you just ate at least 120 calories (20x4=80, 10x4=40, 80+40=120calories).
Fat
Unlike protein and carbs which are both 4 calories per gram, 1 gram of fat is equal to 9 calories.
So if you eat something that has 10 grams of fat in it, you just ate at least 90 calories.
This explains why high protein foods are usually low in calories, while foods high in fat are high in calories.
This is also probably the reason why there are so many fat free foods and why people on diets think fat makes them fat.
Guess what... it doesn't. That is a myth.
Fat does not make you fat. Eating too many calories makes you fat.
It just so happens that a gram of fat has more calories in it than a gram of protein or carbs.
However, the only thing that makes a person gain fat is when that person is eating more calories
than their maintenance level, and then not burning them off through working out. Whether these excess calories in your
diet plan are coming from protein, carbs or fat makes little difference.
Sometimes people on specific weight loss diet plans just try to eat less fat (or even fat free)
and think that alone will work. What they don't realize is that they are probably replacing those fat calories with calories
from protein or carbs. Yes their fat intake has become lower, but their calorie intake evens back out to what it was,
if not more. And, since you now know that it is too much calories, NOT fat, that causes fat gain, the person's weight
usually won't decrease.
Protein
Protein is an extremely important part of all diet plans. That's why you have most likely never heard of any
low protein diets, and also why you probably HAVE heard of protein supplements. That's because your body needs protein,
and lots of it. It is the building block of muscle. Protein is measured by the gram. 1 gram of protein is equal to
4 calories. So, if you are eating something that has 20 grams of protein in it, that means that whatever you are
eating is at least 80 calories. In case you failed 2nd grade math, that was 20 grams of protein multiplied by 4 calories
per gram... 20 x 4 = 80
Carbs
Carbs (or "carbohydrates" for the people who don't mind typing 8 extra letters)
is another of the three main elements that make up calories. I have a feeling that of the three,
carbs are the most confusing for people creating diet plans. I think the reason for that is because everything
you enjoy eating has carbs in it. Hell, everything you don't enjoy eating has carbs in it. Carbs are in almost
everything and therefore seem to be the hardest for people to manipulate within a diet plan. Just like protein,
1 gram of carbs is equal to 4 calories. So, if you were eating something that had 20 grams of protein and 10 grams of carbs,
you just ate at least 120 calories (20x4=80, 10x4=40, 80+40=120calories).
Fat
Unlike protein and carbs which are both 4 calories per gram, 1 gram of fat is equal to 9 calories.
So if you eat something that has 10 grams of fat in it, you just ate at least 90 calories.
This explains why high protein foods are usually low in calories, while foods high in fat are high in calories.
This is also probably the reason why there are so many fat free foods and why people on diets think fat makes them fat.
Guess what... it doesn't. That is a myth.
Fat does not make you fat. Eating too many calories makes you fat.
It just so happens that a gram of fat has more calories in it than a gram of protein or carbs.
However, the only thing that makes a person gain fat is when that person is eating more calories
than their maintenance level, and then not burning them off through working out. Whether these excess calories in your
diet plan are coming from protein, carbs or fat makes little difference.
Sometimes people on specific weight loss diet plans just try to eat less fat (or even fat free)
and think that alone will work. What they don't realize is that they are probably replacing those fat calories with calories
from protein or carbs. Yes their fat intake has become lower, but their calorie intake evens back out to what it was,
if not more. And, since you now know that it is too much calories, NOT fat, that causes fat gain, the person's weight
usually won't decrease.