When healthy eating becomes your lifestyle

The answer is:

Carbohydrates

Protein

Healthy Fats

To tell you the truth, I saw these three things I mentioned above as enemies when it comes to losing weight. In all my years of different diets, the rumour of avoiding especially carbohydrates and excessive protein was the top of my list for losing weight. But what happen in the end? I’ve put on more weight than ever! Read my story and my struggle of losing weight.

Hey.. and what did I find out? The very first thing I thought were my enemies were actually my friends. This is true if you really understand these foods and know the right amounts that you’re eating. I realized that you need carbohydrates, protein and healthy fats to lose weight. But remember, eating any of them excessively and they become your enemies. And I am referring to your normal daily food. That’s why nowadays when I see low/nil carbohydrate, protein diets.. I cringe and know that they are not good and healthy diets. Why? Because our body need these fats and carbohydrates – a fuel for our body to gain energy and to burn fat.  Plus, protein is a great way to build lean muscles so that it can increase our metabolism to burn the fats in our body efficiently.

I am not saying that you can’t lose weight with going on a low carbs/protein diet. Of course you can and you can lose weight really fast too in some cases. All I am saying that kind of diet is terrible  and unhealthy simply because without the right carbs, protein and healthy fats, we are actually losing mostly water and muscle from our body. We will not be losing fats and that’s why these yo-yo dieters simply lose the weight to gain all of them back again. If not more than what their original weight were.

But the good news is with our products – is that you can’t have too much of everything. The reason being they are low in fat, high in protein (without all the hidden saturated fats – and that’s what you should be looking for), high in vitamins, minerals and nutrients that your body needs everyday. Why? It’s simple. It’s because your body needs a certain amount of these vitamins and minerals everyday to function well. But sad to say, our daily food do not provide the necessity nutrients.

I personally felt a great difference by consuming a shake before my work out. I feel really toned now and (as I mentioned in my last post) there has been an increase in my muscle mass too.  And sometimes I have a glass of Lift Off before my work out and I realized that it has helped me gain more stamina during my work out plus,  I definitely felt a great boost of energy as well. I’ve been exercising often for years now and I never had the stamina as I do now. I don’t feel as tired and lethargic after every work out session. And Zumba is my new love – if I haven’t mention it already

Dr Luigi mentioned one thing which I thought was really important. The importance of recovery of your muscle tissue. A shake after your work out will do the trick to replenish/repair and recover your muscle tissue so it doesn’t wear and tear. Also that is one of the ways to maintain and build lean muscles.

I hope you learned something today