Health and Fitness Tips

Calorie cycling or also known as zig-zagging is a method introduced by Tom Venuto through his well known weight loss guide Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle to counter your body self defense system to survive starvation. Many current weight loss program have adopted similar method because it is proven to prevent you gain back weight after you loss it and maintain your weight loss speed at steady level.

Based on Tom’s explanation, fat cells have neurons and they transmit message to the rest of the body. When you start cutting calories and lose weight, the fat cells will send signal to the rest of your body to save it. Your body will thinks that food will not available soon and it reacts by slowing body metabolism to keep you from starving to death; this will hinders your weight loss progress since no matter how low your calorie intake you will not lose significant weight anymore.

Through Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle program you will learn how to make simple changes to the way you already eat meals. In order to lose weight you don’t have to completely alter your food habits. A few simple changes can make all the difference. Just follow these simple guidelines:

1. Keep track of your calories and your micronutrients for 3 days. Write down everything you eat, but don’t change your eating patterns. Make sure to write down all nutritional information for all the foods you eat, not just the amount of calories.

2. Now you can create your ‘new’ meal plans. Have 5 meals a day for women and 6 meals a day for men. Center each meal around a lean protein sources like fish or meat. You want to achieve a breakdown like this: 30% protein, 50% carbohydrates and 20% fat. You want your meal plans to have between 20%-30% calorie deficit for 3 days. Then you follow up with a maintenance day with a 5%-10% calorie surplus. Make sure all the caloric increase is coming from carbohydrates.

In order to figure out what 20% of your normal daily calorie intake is just deduct 20% from the amount of calories you normally consume in a day. For example, if your normal daily intake is 2000 calories you would deduct 400 calories (2000x.20=400). That would leave you with 1600 calories a day. Just use the same formula to add calories when you hit your maintenance day. By using a maintenance day you are preventing your body from thinking it is starving and shutting down. If you keep your metabolism burning hot you will lose weight much more quickly and easily. Your cheat day can also be used for that special occasion when you know you’ll be eating too much.

Calorie cycling is only one of the many ways to boost metabolism. Notice that the nearer you get to your goal weight or body fat percentage the harder it will get, so having a weight loss program which equipped with metabolism boost method will makes things easier.

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