what Are Preventing You From Losing Body Fat Without You Realizing It

When looking to lose body fat (especially now after the summer) we look to be as efficient as possible. We want to do it in a comfortable way, without going hungry, without experiencing stress, and without much effort. Despite this, many people, unknowingly or unknowingly, use strategies that, rather than help them, are sabotaging their progress and preventing them from losing the body fat they would like. For this reason, although we see the following strategies that we are going to discuss below as optimal to meet our goal of reducing the fat percentage, we are going to discuss why it is not a good idea. Differentiate between suitable and unsuitable foods When we talk about suitable and unsuitable foods, we are making a classification, albeit unconsciously, of which foods we can freely eat and which we could not eat under any circumstances because they could harm us. It is important to clarify that there is no food that makes us gain weight by itself, and that is that to increase body fat we need to be in an energy surplus and, in addition, not exercise so that this energy surplus does not become muscle mass. When we make such an aggressive differentiation of food, we are already generating very high stress because our brain is already carrying out an extreme classification of which foods it can eat and which it cannot. It is true that on occasion, losing fat can be a bit stressful since it is something that our body does not want to submit to since we are taking away its energy reserves. Despite this, all foods are suitable, but it is important to observe the amounts of each food that is ingested. The healthiest and most efficient thing for our fat loss would be to eat mostly foods of plant origin such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, etc.; followed by animal foods such as fatty fish, eggs, good quality meat and, if you want to enjoy some processed food, consume it but in adequate amounts and that represent a low percentage of caloric intake. This will also allow us to be more flexible when it comes to going out and socializing with family, friends, partners, etc. This long-term flexibility will not only cause us to lose body fat, but it will keep us in the body composition we want. Cheat meals Many years ago, cheat meals or cheat meals became fashionable because they "activated the metabolism" and psychologically allowed us to face the following week with a better attitude. But it has been seen that it is not at all so that cheat meals, psychologically, sabotage a lot of people who seek to lose body fat. Typically, people who cheat eat spend the rest of their days on very low-calorie diets that emotionally destroy them. With this, when the cheat meal arrives (if it's not the cheat day), they eat many, calories that end up in a weekly surplus. That is to say, all the calories that they have not ingested during the week, they ingest in that meal or that day, causing them not to lose weight. But there is an even more dangerous problem, and that is that they associate binge-eating with feeling better, generating a loop in which reinforcement generates repetition, and repetition generates reinforcement, so it is increasingly difficult for them to break that eating habit. trap. Count calories Although it is true that this strategy can be useful at first for a person to realize how much they can be eating and spending, it is normal that this strategy can be a problem. Here we no longer talk so much about problems at the nutritional level (which also), but about how this behavior affects the person's life. Currently, we live, due to workloads, family, etc., over stressed, and if in addition to all this, which is inevitable, we add more load such as counting everything we eat, it can only lead us to have bad management with food. It is necessary to comment that we cannot control everything, and nothing happens. The really important thing is to take care of carrying out strength training that suits our person, follow a nutritional plan with a caloric deficit and not any nutrient deficit, and a good rest that guarantees us to be able to perform every day.