I’m fed up with people trying to sell me diet shakes and meal replacements! This is a multi-million dollar industry and yet it just isn’t necessary!
We don’t need diet shakes and meal replacements! In fact, they can be the culprits in keeping us on the diet yo-yo train!
Let’s face it – you can’t go on forever drinking shakes and having meal replacement bars! Besides, count up how much it is COSTING you!!
Eating nuts in the afternoon can prevent the ‘diet blowout’.
You have been great all day- following a sensible good nutrition plan and it’s 3.30pm. Suddenly you are hungry.
Have you ever been in the situation where you just open the pantry door and go ‘hunting’ for food – ANY food will do.
STOP! Did you know that we have a ‘hunger hormone’ (called ghrelin) that drives us in the afternoon to eat something – anything? This is especially true if you skipped breakfast!
Most cardio equipment at the gym has a program for ‘fat burning’ or ‘cardio’. Have you ever tried it? The ‘Fat-burning’ zone is NOT the best way to burn fat! How come?
The theory is that when your heart-rate is in ‘the zone’ the body burns fat as its fuel. True to a point. But you’d have to work ‘in the zone’ for so long it isn’t funny ! Nor is it efficient at really burning fat. You are better to go as hard out as you can and burn more calories per workout. As a result the amount of actual fat burned is greater.
Imagine this: …
By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
