AITank: Fitness Explained

Published by dr swoll

But only if you eat right at the same time. A lot of people are under the impression that doing hundreds of situps and crunches will make them lose fat. This is not the case. The ONLY time you will ever lose weight is when take in less calories than you use. For example, if I burn 2000 calories a day, I’d have to eat less than 2000 calories in order to lose weight, regardless of how many sit ups I do, how long I spend in the gym, and how many miles I run. So now that you know the basic principles behind losing weight, let’s talk about how to go about doing it.

Cutting fat is a no no. Cutting carbs is a no no. The only people who need to use extreme diets are competition bodybuilders and celebrities after they have babies, and there’s a 99% chance you don’t fit into either of these categories. Cutting fat is not the way to go because the body actually needs fat to function. It’s when it gets TOO MUCH fat and the wrong kinds that it starts showing it. In a nutshell: trans fat = bad, saturated fat = pretty bad, polyunsaturated fat = pretty good, monounsaturated fat = good. This doesn’t mean you want to drop your saturated fat intake down to 0, it just means you want to watch it and try to get more of the good fats (the best example of monounsaturated fat is peanut butter, so yeah PB&J’s are actually healthy). Cutting carbs is very bad because the body uses carbohydrates for energy, and if you have no carbs you’ll have no energy. But you need energy to move around, so if you don’t have any, your body will start to convert protein into energy, which means you’ll be losing muscle. You should NEVER let this happen!

In summary, weight loss = taking in less calories than you expend. Cutting fat and carbs = bad. WATCHING fat and carbs = good. It helps to keep a food log so you can see exactly how much you are taking in. There is some really good software for this called FitDay, which you can download for free. Another good program is Diet Analysis +. Using these will help you monitor how many calories you are consuming compared to how many you are using, which will clearly show you what you need to do to reach your goals.

Feb 28, 2008
Filed under: Training, calories, Dieting, fat, fat loss, situps, weight loss