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Lose Weight Low Carb Diets – a great start

Many people are interested to know if there are lose weight low carb diets that they should concentrate on and also what type of workout will give them the body they want and how do they go about achieving this? To achieve the shape we are after necessitates a balance of exercising and the right nutritional regime. Whatever program you utilise will not cannot conquer unhealthy eating.

It is common to begin an exercise regime with the aim to lose weight. The other benefits include an improvement in health and fitness. With exercise alone you will struggle to lose weight and will need to be combined with a better diet.

A balanced plan will look at nutrition and exercise that will help reduce fat, increase fitness levels, and improve overall health. The popular press and exercise magazines have all dealt with diets containing various mixes of carbohydrates, protein, and fats.

All sorts of recommendations have been made including high carb, low fat, high protein, and in recent times, lose weight low carb diets. How-ever our body is very adaptable and can often meet these challenges. The balance required involves consuming sufficient energy for efficient muscle function, while not consuming excess that is layed down as fat.

We need to provide the energy for our muscles so that they have sufficient prior to exercise and enough to recover afterwards without breaking down muscle to provide needed energy.

Basically protein is utilised in growing and restoring muscle, carbohydrates give the oomph. and fat gives the hormones required. All of these three elements are essential to good health and in achieving a fit and active lifestyle. How-ever if we are short of carbohydrates our muscles can use fat and protein for the energy needed.

Taking a more complex approach, muscles obtain energy from adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is mainly produced utilising glucose. This is stored in the liver, and the muscles themselves, as glycogen. The contraction of a muscle anaerobically utilises the glycogen held in a muscle directly and leads to the formation of ATP. Only limited quantities can be stocked up, after these are utilised the muscles will fail.

With aerobic activity ATP can be created, mainly from glucose, and be available almost immediately. The next step is to utilise the fatty acids, which are located in fat cells, which gives energy. Finally we move to anaerobic means to produce energy.

Therefore the common perception in the health sector is that the lose weight low carb diets are not a good combination with working out. In fact many marathoners will load up with carbs prior to setting out. If we do not have carbohydrates available for our muscles to use then fatty acids will have to be used to source glucose. This is a foundation of ATP which is utilised by muscles.

This process is not as efficient as glycogenesis which uses glucose to provide energy. People mistakenly think that the use of these fatty acids by the body has led to genuine weight loss.

How-ever, mostly, it is not weight loss that we are after but fat loss. By not feeding the muscles much of the early weight loss will come from the muscle loss instead of the desired drop in fat. Instead we need to maintain or grow muscle mass while reducing fat percentages.

Our long term goal is not generally to lose weight, even though we may call it that, it is loss of fat. We are looking to change the body composition so that fat becomes a lesser percentage of total weight. Not many people would complain about having too much muscle!

The lose weight low carb diets are not a long term strategy for a healthy body even though we may be happy with the initial results on the scales. As a generalisation muscle mass will be at risk of also being lost which won’t help reach the objective.

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