One of the most vital aspects of good health is often put aside.
This is the importance of maintaining your muscles!
When it comes to dieting, there is a big chance of losing vital muscle, which is the foundation of your body.
The most asked question I get is:
How can I lose weight?
Or,
I lost so many kilos in just a few weeks, but have managed to put it all back again, how?
The problem with strict dieting and losing weight, is that you also lose muscle just a quickly.
The more muscle you lose the harder it is to lose fat; it is in the muscle where you burn fat.
Strengthening your muscles is like adding logs to the fire, the more you add the more the fire burns.
Muscle is the engine in which body fat is burned for fuel – so if you don‘t have much muscle you cannot lose much fat. Running, cycling
and Aerobic exercise alone will not give you this result.
We need to stress the bones in order to lay down the calcium for support. You stress the bones by laying down muscle through strength training, first and foremost, then we can add to it by choosing foods high in calcium, See page 2 of this newsletter.
Your immune system is also dependent on muscle, the stronger the muscles the better your immune system will work. This is obviously important all year round.
Between the ages of 20 and 40 the average female loses 3.6kg of muscle and gains 10 kilos of fat.
Between 20 and 80 the aver-age male loses one quarter of his muscle mass.
If you think a strength based exercise is all too much, think again.
March into shape with strength!
All you need to know to reduce your body fat is to do the correct weight workout three times a week.
All you need is ―yourself!
We also need to help our children, avoid dieting to stay slim, and teach them the beauty nature provides in whole foods, and an active life. Our health depends on it.
A saying I use often is “if we don’t make time for good health, we will need to make time for ill health”
And yes you need to exercise, the correct type of exercise, and the kind that will hold you in good stead for a long time.
Did you know that once you feel thirst you are already dehydrated? As we age, our thirst urge lessens. People often misread their thirst urge as hunger. So it’s worth training our ‘thirst urge’ by regularly drinking water, try set-ting an alarm every hour to remind you to take a drink, soon you’ll do it automatically without the reminder.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the RDI intake for water varies with weight and activity level, the recommendation is—divide your weight (in Kilograms) by 30 for your RDI (ie. Somebody weighing 70kg, needs 2.3 litres per day).
Even a 1% loss in body weight due to water loss can cause fatigue.
So if you think you’re not getting enough, you probably aren't.