The key to losing weight is most often over looked or failed to complete because the motivation is simply not there. In reality, what you are wanting is a diet and exercise which is designed to allow you to gain muscle not fat.
This is important because many diets out there do exactly the opposite. When you are sitting there and counting up your calories, you are taking away one of the most precious and most important things your body needs and that is complex carbs.
These carbs are important because they are the fuel for your muscles. However when you are not active and sitting around all the time, these carbs are stored away as fat.
You need motivation and dedication to gain muscle not fat and the only way for you to do this is exercise. Keep in mind that the food you need for proper exercise, muscle gain and weight loss is also the food that can cause weight to begin with.
You need a good high intensity workout that lasts for about an hour and you can do every single day. What you will want to do is eat a meal which is heavy on the complex carbs followed by this high intensity workout.
Now here is the tricky part so many people over look, this is the part about the protein shakes. You cannot simply drink the protein shakes like they are some kind of weight loss energy drink.
After you have finished a high intensity workout your body will want to repair and rebuild your muscles and there is only a 30 minute time frame after you have completed you exercises to get that protein shake in your body.
This extra protein will be used for rebuilding your muscles as well as making them stronger and that in what lies the secret to weight loss. Muscle mass will burn through fat without thinking about it.
This is because fat it stored energy for the muscles. If the muscles have the energy they will use it but not if they are too weak.
So when you start thinking about that next diet, stop and remember that you want to gain muscle not fat. Then instead turn away from that diet and focus on the exercise and increased muscle mass that will help you shed off the fat quickly.
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