Usually girls start to cut down carbohydrate intake for weight loss, after listening to stories from fitness bikini athletes. But it is worthwhile to know that the food of an ordinary person and such a fitnesistki are two big differences.
A decent level of athletes even in the off-season eat sweets, cheese, chocolate, sushi and cakes only in the so-called "cheat-mil," free food, which happens no more than 2 times a week. And usually - even less. Because the speakers simply. .. there is nothing to cut back when they sit down on the "drying", because the proteins and fats can not be excluded. And the physiology of the processes of simple weight loss for health, and the reduction of the fat layer for competitions is slightly different. Therefore, fortunately, you can eat carbohydrates, and even have to eat them.
Why carbohydrates are important for weight loss
Weight reduction occurs when calories in the body are less than what the body spends on maintaining life, as well as mental, physical and routine household activities.
For example, we completely exclude bread, cereals and other sources of carbohydrates, including fruits, starting to eat meat and fish, as well as green vegetables. In this case the following will happen:
- the organism experiences stress, because "to feed" the brain and muscles to it is much easier with carbohydrate fuel;
- increases the level of cortisol, which in many provokes increased appetite;
- the person starts to feel hungry constantly, even after the heavy portion of the allowed meat with the stewed green beans;
- others are unlikely to have gone so far into the topic of fitness and sports that they "dry up" with our heroine. They eat chocolates and buns, and continue to order pizza at the office;
- decreases the level of mental activity, there are "failures" when a person, sort of like, and is at work, sort of looks at an open file, but can not create anything constructive;
- others continue to eat their pizza;
- in the end, the instinct of self-preservation defeats the desire to lose weight, and now the grief-losing weight chews pizza along with everyone.
How to lose weight by eating carbohydrates
In fact, until the body fat percentage has dropped below 18%, and no additional effect is required on the fat cell receptors for its cleavage, a person can easily lose weight by eating 2 servings of fruit and 2-3portions of cereals from whole grains per day. And it will fuel his brain, exclude hormonal changes, and will not be too different from the usual nutrition in which carbohydrates predominate.
Yes, it's better to give up bread and pizza with chocolates. But completely excluding carbohydrates means deliberately putting yourself in an unprofitable and risky position and provoking a breakdown. In general, eat your porridge and other "slow" carbohydrates, which are very useful for moderate consumption, and lose weight, enjoying also the fact that your diet so far fits into a normal family budget, which is not observed in the speakers athletes.