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Weight Loss

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Fat Loss

Calorie deficit when we consume fewer calories than what your body burns. When creating this calorie deficit we also want to maximize fat loss, minimize muscle loss.

Protein is crucial when it comes to losing weight, it’s the primary building blocks of your body, it boosts your metabolic rate and reduce your appetite. Protein also helps you build and preserve muscle mass, for weight loss we need to eat around 30% protein of our daily calories, for weight loss.

Muscle (lifting weights) is essential in losing fat. Research has shown that you burn more calories in the hours following a weight training session, compared to a cardio session. The resting metabolism stays elevated for up to hours after completing a weight training session, while during cardio no increase such as that, has been reported. This means that calorie-burning benefits of weights aren’t limited to when you are training, you’ll keep burning calories for hours afterwards. The reason for this is that your muscle consists of mitochondria (fat burning powerhouse). In the mitochondria the fat gets metabolized. Its then easy to say that the more mitochondria we have the more the potential             to burn fat.

Sleep forms a big part of how our bodies function and having little sleep has a direct influence on weight loss goals. When we are tired, we more likely to skip breakfast, skip workouts cause we are too tired or making poor food choices because we cant be bothered to cook. Sleep is nutrition for our brain and helps

Cardio:  as mentioned in my first paragraph has great health benefits, but its not the only thing that is important. When you start this journey, give your 100% in planning your healthy meals/your sleep and your training routine.

So in short:

Calorie deficit
Protein intake
Lifting weights
Sleep
Cardio