Before we go any further, let’s answer the question certainly on your minds; namely, what are food repairs? As you know, most diet programs have plenty of loopholes which if left open can easily cause dietary missteps that lead to weight gain rather than loss.
The fad diets are especially guilty of this. Most of them are seriously flawed or at best incomplete. If you were to follow these diets as they are written, you’d almost certainly go wring and fail to lose weight. Now, one of the things common to most diets is the instruction to radically reduce your caloric intake; this can cause you to gain weight instead of losing it! You are also more subject to malnutrition and fatigue when you try to lose weight by just cutting down on your calories. For example, a study on women who reduced their diets by 400 calories had a tendency to develop abdominal obesity!
Following these food repair steps will allow you to lose weight in a healthy way.
1. Get plenty of protein and don’t fill up on carbohydrates. Of course, carbohydrates are an essential part of any healthy diet, but protein should be your primary focus when weight loss is your goal. Carbs give you short-lived bursts of energy, while proteins provide you with a sustained energy source.
Protein is also an important building block of muscle tissue; muscles need more energy than other tissues, meaning that when you build muscle, your body burns fat to feed these muscles.
2. Don’t skip breakfast. A lot of people are under the misapprehension that skipping breakfast will help them to lose weight. What actually happens when you do this is that your metabolism slows and you will tend towards storing energy as fat instead of using it. When you don’t eat in the morning, your body interprets this as a sign that there is a scarcity of food and adapts to wait out the famine.
If you want to lose weight, skipping breakfast is not the way to go. It may seem like a good idea to skip meals, but breakfast really is the most important meal of the day and gets your metabolism into higher gear for the whole day.
Breakfast is an important meal because it gives your body the energy it needs to get started for the day. When you get this vital metabolic kick start you’ll be more energetic and you’ll burn off more stored energy (ie – fat). Eating breakfast actually helps you to lose weight, so make getting a healthy breakfast your top priority every morning.
