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There's no question
about it: if you want to feel great and look great, learning how
to choose the right foods is crucial. Even if weight loss isn't
one of your goals, you need the correct fuel to achieve maximum
fitness.
 At
Myofitness we realize that nutrition is a very individualized
part of overall fitness training, so we don't attempt to come
up with any single diet or set of reccommendations that will work
for everyone. Instead, we tailor nutrition plans to your taste
and life style and come up with a program that you can really
live with. We use high tech nutrition software that can analyze
your diet so we can show you what you're already doing right,
identify the parts of your diet that need to be changed, and then
put it all together to design a plan that will work for you.
Consistent nutrition plays a
huge role in fitness
No matter what your fitness goals, at least 70% of the results
you're looking for can only be achieved through consistently good
nutrition. But eating right isn't simply a matter of counting
calories. There are many factors to consider, and you need to
know and understand the basics of metabolism in order to make
those choices, and that's where Myofitness Home/Corporate Nutrition
Counselling comes in. Here are just a few of the many principles
you will learn to put to use in your own life:
- You need to know how your own body
burns food. Before you even start counting calories,
you need to know your basil metabolic rate (the amount of calories
your body burns at rest in a 24-hour period)and how it impacts
on your food choices.
- Nutrition and weight training is
very scientific and you need to adjust your diet
to your activity level to achieve the results you want - for
example, you need to eat differently on the days you work out
and the days you don't. Myofitness Nutrition Counseling will
thoroughly explain how to decide how much you should be eating
and how much of each type of food - protien, carbs, sugar, and
fat - to include in your diet for maxium results.
- Eating more can actually help you
lose weight - IF you add the right foods to your diet! Protein
breaks down into amino acids, which are the building blocks
of muscle tissue. Adding at least two ounces of protein to each
meal can help you burn an extra 200 calories a day.
- Not all carbs are created equal.
Though all carbohydrates create increases in insulin levels,
choosing the wrong carbs can make insulin levels "spike"
- and when that happens, the body converts carbs to sugar and
stores it as fat. One ounce of stored carbs (glucose) holds
three ounces of water. The best choice is low glycemic carbs,
which cause a only very small insulin increase so your body
has a chance to use them for energy instead of storing them
as fat.
- Don’t cut out the carbs if
you want to add muscle! Insulin is an anabolic hormone
- that means it helps build and maintain muscle - so you need
to consume carbs after a workout. If you don’t, your body
will break down muscle tissue to replace your glycogen stores.
If your insulin level is too low (which happens on a low or
no carb diet) your body will burn a lot of muscle along with
fat.
- Remember, your muscle is your metabolism
and you don’t want to lose it. Getting off
a low carb diet can be tricky - because this kind of diet can
leave you with muscle loss and carb depletion, you can easily
gain more weight back than when you started!
- Keep fats in your diet! Fat
is important because we need it for lipid soluble vitamins.
The correct amount of dietary fat also slows the release of
insulin.
- The right supplements in the right
amounts are important. Calcium can help you lose
weight by revving up your metabolism as long as you take in
less than 5000 IU’s of vitamin A each day.
- Eat often. You need to
eat 5-6 small meals a day to keep your metabolism running at
its peak. Eating every three hours keeps your body out of starvation
mode. Eating too few calories during the day and making up for
it with a big dinner at night trains your body to store fat
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