We generally confuse healthy eating with eating to lose weight. This confusion usually appears when we decide to change our habits, which is fine, but the problem appears when, for example: If you used to eat very badly, only junk food, you were sedentary but then one day you decide to change your lifestyle and you start preparing healthier meals, that's perfect! But most of the time we fall into eating healthy foods but NOT in adequate proportions, or in the distribution that your body needs, neither in the right amounts, or the right types of food; and this often leads us to make mistakes that sabotage the goal we have set in our mind, which could be either lose weight or increase muscle mass, and we may not be eating properly to achieve it.
Many times we fall into the "I am eating healthy but I don't see changes or results." And the problem is the fact of not eating according to the goal we have in mind, sometimes we may even increase fat by trying to "eat healthy" because , yes, there are many foods that are healthy but very high in calories such as honey or brown rice, which can be healthy but not if we consume 2 cups of this, because we fall into the abuse of carbohydrates , and this end up becoming fat, so it is important to remember and highlight that each body has different needs, and that you must eat based on your body, your goals. It's not the same diet for an athlete who trains 10 hours a week, as a person who trains 40 minutes to an hour daily just to maintain their body, the amount of calories and carbohydrates that these two persons will consume will be totally different. So, what influences the distribution of macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, fats)?
One of the important things here is to know our BODY TYPE (The shape of your body) People with an Ectomorph body type are those that have a very fast metabolism and it’s very hard for them to gain weight; then we have the Mesomorph that are those with a more athletic body, these people can eat more and get fat because their body will use it as an energy when they are training, but if they go on a diet can lose weight really easy, and if they train with weights can define their bodies very easily; and finally we have the Endomorph which are those that tend to get fat very easily. If we consider, for example, what each body type should consume, we would have that for the ectomorph, they should consume a lot of carbohydrates and perform very little cardio when they are training or eliminate it from their workout routine, and instead of that add weights to the routine. The mesomorph must have a very good distribution of macronutrients, usually 40% of protein, 30-40% of carbohydrates and 20-30% of fat, this is the average for their diet. In the case of the endomorph, these people has little tolerance to carbohydrates so they should try to consume it very little and of course consume enough protein, and they will have to make a good workout routine with full cardio, weights, etc.
The important thing here is to pay attention to the distribution of macronutrients because will change depending of your body type, determining how much fat, carbohydrates and proteins should be consumed.
The next thing that influence in our goal to lose weight is the synchronization of macronutrients, to put it in a more easy way, this is the hour in which we must consume our food. This is important because it's not the same a person who exercises at night and who may consume carbohydrates at night, to a person who trains during the day and at night doesn't do any physical activity, and also has in mind lose weight, the recommended thing for them is to consume carbohydrates in the morning.
In conclusion, there are many factors that may influence our goals, including our gender as well. A man, sometimes may eat twice as much carbohydrate as a woman. Therefore we have the level of physical activity, gender, biotype and the goal that we want to achieve, of course. If you want to lose fat, try to stay fit or simply want to increase muscle mass, the main thing is to learn is to eat more strategically, especially when you want to lose weight, although the right thing to do is go to a doctor, and we have to keep this in mind because is the key in the process to lose weight, because the doctor will check your weight, size, measure your BMI (body mass index), talk about what types of foods you like and which ones don't, and help you adjust those foods to a plan according to what you want and what you need.
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