Eat to live—don’t live to eat!

Eat to live—don’t live to eat!

How important is diet? Ask any professional bodybuilder and he will tell you that diet is about 85 % of bodybuilding. What this means is that you can do all the hard work you want in the gym, but you won’t see results unless you follow a proper diet. Yes, you are what you eat. With that in mind, don’t live to eat—eat to live! Anyone who says you can eat anything you want and be healthy is either badly misinformed or a quack.

To be healthy, you want to develop a higher metabolism. The best way to achieve this is to eat five small meals a day. You should eat these small meals every three hours. People who eat only two or three times a day are usually starving by the time they sit down to eat. They overeat because they are so hungry and therefore crave high-fat foods. They typically skip breakfast, have a sizeable lunch, and a huge dinner. Skipping breakfast is a terrible idea. Your body goes into starvation mode and slows down your metabolism and conserves your fat! A car cannot run without gas! A Mayo Clinic study found that breakfast eaters started their days with significantly higher metabolic rates than breakfast skippers.

My program is a high-protein regimen that creates a toned, lean, muscular body that burns fat like a blast furnace, even when you are resting. Remember, muscle helps to burn fat. The more lean body mass you have, the more fat you burn.

Your breakfast and your post-workout meal should be your largest meals. These are the two times when your body needs the most nutrients. Consider sleep as an eight-hour fast. That’s a pretty long time, considering you are eating every three hours or so in the daytime. While you are sleeping, your body uses stored glycogen for metabolism. By morning, it is used up. When you wake up, you want to give your body the nutrients it is lacking: twenty to sixty grams of protein depending on your individual protein requirements for your muscles and a good helping of complex carbohydrates for a steady source of energy for your day. Why do you think we call our first meal “breakfast?”—break the fast. The rule of thumb is to eat your largest meals in the first part of the day so you burn off the carbs you have ingested by the time you go to bed.

My point is people—there is a science to being healthy and fit. Why waste your time and money attempting to do something when you have no idea of what you are doing? Knowledge is power. Let me help you to achieve the body and health that you desire. It’s not that hard………you just need a guide. That’s me!