Lose weight by eating more: foods that are virtually impossible to store as body fat

Certain foods are extremely difficult for the human body to convert into body fat, not impossible, but next to impossible. By consuming calories derived from these foods, the anabolic margin of error is drastically widened, which means it will be easier to lose fat and gain muscle, if desired.

Lean protein, protein devoid of saturated fat, has been the staple, essential nutrient of elite athletes for 50 years. Why? You can eat a mountain of lean protein and not gain weight, assuming you train hard enough to trigger muscle growth. Lean protein is difficult for the body to break down and digest. As a direct result of this digestive distress, the body revs up the metabolic thermostat to break down protein into amino acid subcomponents.

The human body wants to preserve stored body fat as the last line of defense against starvation. If you are overworked and undernourished, the body will prefer to eat muscle tissue to save precious body fat.

Obese people who crash diets, precipitously cutting calories, can lose 100 pounds of body weight and still look fat. Despite losing, say, 350 pounds to 250 pounds, they still look fat because they’re still fat. The body has cannibalized muscle tissue and stored fat. Although they may weigh 100 pounds less, they still have a body fat percentile of 25-40%.

Lean protein is the essential nutrient in the process of physical renewal because it provides muscle tissue damaged by high intensity weight training with the necessary amino acids to heal, recover and build new muscle tissue. Lean protein is a basic nutrient in the physical renewal process because it causes the basal metabolic rate (BMR) to rise; The metabolic thermostat, the rate at which our body consumes calories, is increased by digesting protein. Lean protein is a basic nutrient in the process of physical renewal because it is almost impossible for the body to convert it into body fat.

The other essential nutrient in the physical transformation process is fibrous carbohydrates: carrots, broccoli, green beans, bell peppers, spinach, cauliflower, onions, asparagus, cabbage, salad greens, Brussels sprouts, and the like. Fibrous carbohydrates, like lean protein, are almost impossible for the body to convert into body fat. Fibrous carbohydrates require almost as many calories to digest as they contain. A green bean or carrot may contain 10 calories, but they are so dense and difficult to break down that the body has to spend almost as many calories breaking down that bean or carrot as the vegetable contains.

Fibrous carbohydrates have a wonderful “Roto-Rooter” effect on the internal plumbing: as they work their way through the digestive ducts, they scrape mucus and debris from the intestinal walls and help keep sludge buildup to a minimum. . For this reason, fibrous carbohydrates are the perfect complement to a lean protein diet. Too much protein can cause bile buildup: Fiber is the Yin to the Yang of protein. The two nutrients must be eaten together.

Both protein and fiber have a beneficial buffering effect on insulin secretions. It’s no coincidence that professional bodybuilders, the best dieters in the world, capable of dropping body fat percentiles to 5% while maintaining incredible muscle mass, build their diets around protein and fiber.

The best way to eat is to eat often. If you eat 3,000 calories a day, the best way is five 600-calorie meals or six 500-calorie meals instead of a 400-calorie breakfast, a 1,000-calorie lunch, and a 1,600-calorie late dinner. Avoid calories that easily convert to body fat.

Eat several small meals in the 400-600 calorie range made up exclusively of foods that are almost impossible for the body to convert into body fat. In addition, these foods cause the metabolism, the BMR, the body thermostat to rise in order to digest them. Optimally, you should eat every three hours: around the time the nutrients from the previous meal have diminished, been used up and depleted, around the time the elevated metabolism is ‘coming back on track’, eat another small protein/fiber meal. This restores anabolism, speeds up metabolism once more, and gives the body more practice in assimilating and distributing quality nutrients.

They say practice makes perfect and by eating small, energy-packed, hard-to-digest meals every three hours, metabolism stays elevated, anabolism sets in and stays, and the individual never feels hungry. A person who is not hungry is much less inclined to binge on sweets, junk, and junk than are dieters/calorie-cutters who always feel hungry, deprived, listless, and without energy.

The small meals/protein/fiber approach has been used successfully by elite athletes for decades and is not an unproven dietary abstraction, rather it is the proven method of choice, one that has stood the test of time, one that has has used for decades. and it has proven itself time and time again.

If a person is able to establish a multi-meal schedule comprised primarily of lean protein and fiber consumed every three hours, and then add to this eating schedule a serious weight training and cardiovascular regimen, physical transformation is a biological certainty.