Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle – How to Apply Calorie Cycling in Your Meal Plans
Calorie cycling or also known as zig-zagging is a method introduced by Tom Venuto through his well known weight loss guide Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle to counter your body self defense system to survive starvation. Many current weight loss program have adopted similar method because it is proven to prevent you gain back weight after you loss it and maintain your weight loss speed at steady level.
The problem with starving your body is that fat cells will send out a signal that tells the rest of your body to conserve energy since there’s not enough food coming in. Your body will try to save itself by slowing down your metabolism. The slower your metabolism the fewer calories you will burn and it will become impossible to burn enough calories to lose weight.
Through Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle program you will learn how to make simple changes to the way you already eat meals. In order to lose weight you don’t have to completely alter your food habits. A few simple changes can make all the difference. Just follow these simple guidelines:
1. For 3 days write down the calories and all nutritional information on everything you eat. Don’t alter your eating patterns, just keep track of everything.
2. Create your meal plans; your meal plans should be 5 meals per day for female and 6 meals per day for male. Each meal will centered around lean protein such as meat and fish so the macronutrient breakdown is 30% protein, 50% carbohydrates, and 20% fat. These meal plans should have 20%-30% calorie deficit for 3 days, followed by a maintenance day with 5-10% calorie surplus with all the calorie increase coming from carbohydrates.
The 20% calorie deficit means you have to cut 20% of your daily calorie intake. For instance; if your daily calorie intake is 2000, then you have to modify it to 1600 calories, the same applies when increasing calorie intake on the maintenance day. A maintenance day is required to assure your body that you are not starving, so your body metabolism will stay at steady high level and you will keep loses significant weight. It can also be used for special event such as birthday party or eating out where you need to eat more than your usual diet; the only thing you need to do is adjusting your maintenance day schedule to match the event day.
Think of your metabolism like a furnace and to help you get the best results from your weight loss efforts you want to keep your furnace burning hot. Calorie cycling is the best way to do that. Keep your furnace stoked and you will lose weight with virtually no effort.
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