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5 Common Misconceptions About Fat Loss And Exercise
Wherever you look, you see products such as “The Fat Trapper”, or “Exercise in a Bottle” promising “Dramatic Weight Loss”, diets such as “The Zone”, “Sugar Busters” or “South Beach Diet” promising a new you quickly and without any effort.
I am sure you have heard of many of them and maybe even tried some of them. Unfortunately, these products and diets are not the miracles they are portrayed as or even quick fix solutions.
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Below are some more common misconceptions among people with regard to both nutrition and exercise.1. Eating after 7pm will make you fat. It all depends on whether or not the body needs the calories at that time. Keep in mind your body is constantly burning calories, 24 hours per day, it’s only that after 7pm most people are relaxing and using a lot less energy than through the day. For instance, a shift worker will require calories at different times of the day than an office worker.2. Your metabolism slows down once you hit 30.Actually, according to hundreds of research studies the slow down in metabolism after the age of 30 is due to a loss of muscle tissue. And the loss of muscle tissue is directly related to a lack of hard physical activity! Therefore a sedentary lifestyle will slow your metabolism down regardless of age.
3. Pasta and bread are fattening.
Everything can fattening! even foods that are “fat free” can be stored as fat is too much is eaten! Any food or drink that contains calories can be stored as body fat if you have enough of it so your blood sugar levels exceed what the body needs at the time. Bread and pasta are great sources of complex carbohydrates! The thing is how much you eat and when you eat it.
4. Strength training will make you bulk up.
Not surprisingly, it seems women are mostly concerned with this one. Muscle size is primarily affected by genetics and hormone production; therefore, most women don’t have the potential to build very large muscles. For the body to increase muscle size, it uses testosterone and HGH, among other hormones, that is produced more in men than women.
5. If you don’t exercise, you won’t lose fat.
The truth is you don’t gain body fat because of a lack of exercise, but rather because your blood sugar levels exceed what you are using. Basically, you are eating too many calories for the amount of energy your body is expending. Obviously eating less and increasing your exercise will help you lose fat a lot faster, but if you cannot exercise a good, healthy eating plan will also help shed that fat.
So the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn which makes easier to burn fat and harder to gain it! But that does not mean looking like a competitive body builder is the way to fat loss, lean muscle, regardless of size, will help you to increase your metabolism and lose bodyfat.
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ÂPublished on December 17, 2007 · Filed under: Diets, Exercise, General, Tips, Weightloss; Tagged as: Bodyfat., Calories, Exercise, Fat loss, Healthy Eating Plan, HGH, Metabolism, Nutrition, South Beach Diet, Testosterone, The Zone, Training