When two people have the same ideal weight, how can one be very unhealthy and the other is staying healthy?
The answer to staying healthy involves two things: 1) Knowing the different characteristics of muscle and fat. 2) Your method of losing the weight.
There are very interesting differences between fat and muscle.
o Fat takes up 3 times more space than muscle.
o Fat burns 2 calories per day.
o Muscle burns 50 calories per day.
So what does all this mean?
o It means that if you are mostly fat and have little muscle, you don’t burn as many calories doing nothing as a muscular person will burn.
o When you are made up of mostly fat, you will look much larger and look heavier than another person who is muscular and weights exactly the same as the fat person.
o It means that if you take steps to lose weight that result in losing muscle and water instead of fat, you will not be staying healthy.
o Fat produces toxic waste contributing to not staying healthy.
What is the best way to lose weight?
The best way to stay healthy while you are losing weight while you maintain your ideal weight is to combine proper eating with proper exercise.
The proper exercise will gain muscle while simultaneously losing fat weight, provided you also eat correctly.
Proper exercise involves weight training. Aerobics will burn calories but will not cause you to gain muscle. Properly weight train 2-4 times a week, depending on your intensity. You can use the slow burn technique combined with weights or elastic bands for quick efficient results. You will continue to burn additional calories for hours after you finish your exercise. Also, you can add some interval training for cardio to burn more calories.
To eat properly while you are losing weight (losing fat, not water or muscle) requires eating 4-5 small properly balanced meals each day. A properly balanced meal includes 1/3 raw food, (cooked foods kill all the enzymes and lots of the nutrition), about 25-30% lean protein calories, about 40-50% low glycolic carbohydrate calories, and about 25-30% good fat calories.
Lean protein includes fish, skinless chicken and turkey, why protein, egg whites, buffalo, and ostrich. Low glycolic carbohydrates include vegetables, (of course) salads, fruit, nuts (only a few because they are very high in calories) and grains.
Do not eat pizza, processed foods, cheese, canned food (except canned sardines and canned salmon are OK), most breads (Ezekiel bread and cereal are good), packaged foods, etc.
You want to eat your first meal within one hour of waking up, and you want to eat a balanced meal about every 2 – ½ to 3 -1/2 hours. After you do this for a while you will automatically get hungry at the appropriate time.
Drinking half your body weight in ounces mostly between meals will keep you staying healthy. This will cause your body to stop storing extra water for emergencies. Example: 160 pounds would drink 80 ounces of pure water (not tap water). You certainly will not want to drink any soda, juices, coffee, alcohol, milk. Drinking tea, pure water or hemp milk is all that is needed.
These foods and drinks you should not consume do other damage to your body in addition to making it difficult to lose weight properly to stay healthy.
Your body’s metabolism (how many calories it burns vs. how many calories it stores as fat) will shift into burning more calories when you eat correctly and exercise correctly.