Tips for Losing Weight Fast - Burn the Fat or Eat the Muscle?
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Not really.
Sugar = energy
You could easily argue that the missing 192 calories of sugar will NOT provide you with the energy you would need to exercise easily and efficiently for an extra 20 minutes (depending on your weight and which activity you’re doing) and allow you to improve your cardiovascular health even more to make aerobics easier.
You could also argue that 192 extra calories of carbs would enable you to do 15 sets of different weight training exercises (or like one set of about 12 reps of 15 exercises), allowing you to build up muscle mass (if you eat extra protein too), which would rev up your metabolism and THAT is what would help you lose weight.
Muscle mass is THE weight loss miracle. You look better, thinner, toner but also you are stronger so your aerobics get easier and more efficient and you burn more calories while exercising.
Once you get more muscle mass, your metabolism goes up on a 24/7 basis. Each pound of added muscle mass needs 35/50 calories a day to maintain (not even counting the calories for the exercise). It’s 12 to 18 thousand calories a year…it’s 3 to 5 pounds of body fat a year that you would either lose or at least not gain (if you eat too much). And that is just for one pound of extra added muscle mass.
Sugars will only end up being stored as fat reserves (your body storage system for unused carbs/protein/dietary fats calories) if you don’t exercise so you don’t burn it out.
A 16 calories tsp of sugar (5g of sugar) is like 2 minutes of aerobics while a 200 calories coca-cola bottle has 55g of sugar (and it’s crappy HFCS too) and nothing else except caffeine…now you need to exercise for 22 minutes to use the energy of that bottle.
NOW, that said, independently from your weight loss issues and carbs intake issues, you still have a sweet tooth and you need to take care of it. You have messed up taste buds which is why you need a lot of sugar to taste enough sweetness. Your sweet tooth is probably messing up the rest of your diet too, like a sweet delicious ripe fruit might taste bland to you.
Just like people using too much salt and having to use too much salt or the food is bland.
If you would put 3 tsp of sugar in my coffee, I’d be like eeww! I don’t drink coffee anymore as I switched to chocolate milk because I need milk more than I need coffee but when I used to drink coffee, I would use one tsp of sugar.
Fortunately, you’re not using fake sugars, those are even worse, as they’re often sweeter (some are 300 times sweeter than real sugar, which is why manufacturers love them as they only need to use so little so it’s cheaper). Fake sugar mess up your taste buds to no end, do not give you any energy (so you don’t exercise that much), make you hungry (since you still have low blood sugar level) and lead to sweet cravings, binging, obesity…
Do not make the mistake of replacing your real sugar with fake sugar to lower the calorie content of your drinks. After all just two x 16 calories tsp of sugar (32 calories) x 365 days = 11,680 calories/year divided by 3,500 = 3.33lbs of body fat that you would not gain and then have to lose.
Do not reduce your real sugar by 2/3 suddenly (3 tsp to 1 tsp).
You need 3 weeks to readjust your taste buds…gradually.
Like if you switch from whole milk to 1% (if you’re done growing and are +21yo), you first progressively add a percentage of 2% to your whole milk, like ¼ the first week, then ½ the second week, then ¾ the third week, then 3 weeks later, you’re drinking 2% milk. You do the same thing to go from 2% to 1%. So it takes about 6 weeks to go from whole milk to 1%, being aware that for all those 6 weeks, your milk is going to taste weird. Once you’re at 1% for a couple of weeks, you realize it now tastes the same as the whole milk you used to drink 2 months ago.
Growing kids and teens need whole milk but I limit my animal fat from milk so I can get it from meat and poultry.
For your 3 to 1 tsp of sugar…use kitchen measuring spoons (they have 1/8-tsp, ¼-tsp, ½-tsp, 1tsp…) and be precise. You could do the first week with 2-3/4tsp, the second week with 2-1/2tsp, the third week with 2tsp…and so on until you get to 1tsp. Or you could go slower and use 1/8 measuring spoon. Again, being aware that your drink will taste sour (not sweet enough) during the whole transition, until you spend a couple of weeks using only 1tsp of sugar and it will taste as sweet as then you used to need 3tsp of sugar 2 months before.
And again, do not use fake sugar or even re-add real sugar when you really miss the sweetness, as it would compromise the whole process of readjusting your taste buds.
You’ll also have to reduce sugar everywhere else in your diet (like using a hint of orange marmalade on your toasts instead of 3 tons of strawberry jam).
- I gave up sugar for skin issues and as a by product my weight definately dropped ! Sugar is just not required in the quantities that we intake, people will say I need sugar for engergy but they should perhaps look at the diet first as a good balanced diet will have all the sugar needed !. Like you I had sugar in tea etc and had approx 3-4 cups a day, which is around 4-5 teaspoons of sugar ! I also found I stopped eating cookies with the drinks and avoided deserts and anything with added sugar. Trust me sugar puts more weight on then fatty food ! Remember that all fizzy drinks and wine and beer is full of sugar too! So try and reduce this or go onto spirits instead as they have no or little sugar !
Good luck - Yes. Low carb/sugar diets make weight loss much easier. Whether or not cutting down a couple tablespoons of sugar will do much, I don''t know.
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