20 questions about weight loss

In a brief and clear way, we’ve decided to summarize the most common questions that you send us to one article and give clear answers so you have everything in one place!

1. How to lose belly fat?

It is not possible to determine where we will lose fat tissue. Fat loss is a result of calorie deficit, and the places from which we will sooner and later lose fat are matter of genetics. Be patient and persistent with a deficit and that stubborn places will also go away.

2. When can I eat cheat meal?

Cheat meal does not exist and anyone who mentions it is not to be taken seriously. The same is based on the belief that there are healthy and unhealthy foods and those that need to be avoided in order to lose weight, and the fact is that weight loss is a result of calorie deficit rather than food selection.

3. Which proteins are better, animal or plant?

It is important to consume all the essential amino acids through the protein, and in the plant it is necessary to combine more sources to bring all the essential amino acids. The usability of plant protein is somewhat smaller than the animal, but for the average person it will not make a significant difference.

4. How to speed up your metabolism?

There is no fast and slow metabolism as well as no food that can affect such a thing. What makes a big difference is the consumption of calories in everyday activities and it varies considerably from person to person. A person with a sedentary lifestyle has much less spending than a person with a more active lifestyle.

5. Should I eat protein before or after training?

It doesn’t matter when we enter them. Given that we need to enter a certain amount of protein in the day we are deployed to the desired amount of meals throughout the day, it is up to us to decide whether to eat more or less before reaching the total at the end of the day or even a week.

6. Can I overdose with proteins?

A controlled study lasting for a year proved that the intake of 3.3 grams per kilogram of body mass did not have a negative impact on weight-training people.

7. Should I avoid carbs in the evening?

There is no point in avoiding foods for the purpose of weight loss, only less caloric intake than what we need, calorie deficit is all we need. If a person does not respond well to eating carbohydrates in the evening, do not eat them. If she does, let them eat – the thing is individual and we are free to eat them like everything else while we’re within the calorie limit when we talk about weight loss.

8. Do I have to count calories?

You need to know the caloric intake to achieve energy balance or input less than what we need. If calories are counted without weighting the food then we can expect average progress, and as time goes by, the lack of results will probably result in a drop in motivation and full return to the old habits.

9. Is there any mobile app for counting calories?

There are many, but the most famous tools are the mobile application MyFitnessPal and the Cronometer web application.

10. Which bread is the healthiest one?

There is no healthy and unhealthy food, and bread is not guilty for weight gain. Therefore, it makes no sense to look for something like this. As long as we can eat whatever the bread we want in a calorie deficit, only bread is nutritionally poorer and the other nutritionally richer. It is worth noting that, if we are in excessive caloric intake, then the nutritionally richer bread will also become useless because excess energy is a surplus of energy, regardless of the source it comes from.

11. Should I avoid fat?

It has long been proven that fats are not related to cholesterol and blood vessel diseases so there is no fear of saturated fats. What’s more important is the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, which should be 4: 1 in favor of omega-6 fatty acids.

12. Are artificial sweeteners such as aspartame harmful?

Aspartame has been tested in far greater quantities than those found in the products and there were no adverse effects. Aspartame noise rose in 2006 when it was found to be associated with cancer in rats and mice, and was subsequently denied. About everything we wrote in the aspartame article where you can find links to the studies. Artificial sweeteners are a good solution when you want sweet and calorie deficiency.

13. Is breakfast really the most important meal in the day?

Not. You decide how to schedule your daily caloric intake, and when you eat meals, you do not even have to call them breakfast, lunch, and more if you do not want it. It is important that at the end of the day you enter the exact number of calories with macronutrients and micronutrients. If it’s up to you to start off with a meal, it’s great. If you are not fans of the morning meal and the first will be around noon, also super great.

14. Which is the best diet, keto, LCHF or fasting?

All of the eating habits popularly referred to as “the child” function on the same principle, the calorie deficit, in terms of weight loss. So there will not be any significant differences in weight loss regardless of what diet you are using as long as you are achieving a calorie deficit. Therefore, the best diet is the easiest way to keep your calorie limit.

15. Should I only eat “healthy” weight loss foods?

There is no healthy or unhealthy food. Often, when we want to lose weight and do not want to eat anything other than “healthy” food, we are obsessed with it and we think that if we eat anything out of it, it automatically goes into fat tissue. That is not true, we are overweight with the surplus of energy input, not the nutritionally poor food. It is recommended that 85% of calories come from nutritionally rich foods to ensure the health of the body, and 10-15% of daily intake of nutritionally poor food can not cause significant damage to healthy people.

16. What to eat and drink to clean the body from toxins?

Detoxification is performed daily by the liver, kidneys and lungs. It has been proven that detoxifying products have no effect, and the only thing that will safely clean is your wallet of money. Feed yourself with nutritionally rich food and let the internal organs work their job, water with cucumber, ginger and herbs will not cleanse your body.

17. Is the whey protein chemistry?

Whey protein is a dried whey and one of the best nutrition supplements. If proteins can not be consumed through solid foods due to lack of time protein shake where you mix whey protein powder with water is done in just a few minutes. There is no evidence that increased protein intake is associated with kidney disease in healthy people so there is no need to worry about whey protein either. It is up to you to choose how to enter the protein, through solid food or whey protein, it is only important that you enter them.

18. Will I lose more fat if I do cardio fasted?

There is no evidence that cardio in a fasted state consumes more fat than cardio after meals, may have negative effects, but are negligible. The body gets fat and a bit less in the muscles as a source of energy when we bring it to a calorie deficit, regardless of when I was doing cardio.

19. Do I lose fat when I sweat?

Sweat is connected with fat loss, sweat is a natural air conditioner of our body it uses to cool it. The more you sweat, the body has a greater internal temperature and amplifies its climate. Fat loss comes from calorie deficit.

20. Is green tea good for weight loss?

Only if you go to harvest it and so spend your calories because weight loss comes from a calorie deficit, not from the teas. Tea does not grease, foods unhealthy, fat, and fat-free preparations. Fat loss comes from calorie deficit.

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