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To understand how you lose weight, you must first understand how the body works. Here is a quick summary of what your weight is made up of:
Three components make up your body weight: water, lean tissue, and body fat.
Water makes up 70% of your bodyweight. It is in your bloodstream, digestive tract, and every cell in your body.
The primary fuel for your muscles is carbohydrates. In order to store carbs in your muscles, the body has to convert it to glycogen. In order to convert carbs to glycogen, you must pair it with water. By staying hydrated you are increasing your capacity to burn more calories! Drink up.
Lean tissue are cells that make up your bones, cartilage, muscles, hair, and nails.
Muscle (lean tissue) plays a vital role in your ability to lose weight and keep it off. When you strength train or do energy system training you increase production of enzymes that allow you to process more oxygen. The more oxygen, the more calories you will burn (raised metabolism). If you are not eating enough, your metabolism slows down. This has been passed down from our ancestors that lived in a time when starvation or deprivation meant something terrible. The metabolism slows to maintain fat to stay alive. On the other hand, for many of us, starvation never comes and so our bodies continue to store the extra energy and our waistlines grow every year. Although we have evolved from that nature, set point (the amount of fat your body is programmed to maintain) has not.
Body fat is fat cells that are stored mostly in the back of your arms, thighs, hips, abdomen, and less visual places like around your vital organs.
We all need fat. It protects us from the cold, fuels the body, acts as a shock absorber for your organs, and supplies building blocks for hormones and nerves. At the same time, too much fat affects our health (and our figure). If a women’s waistline is more than 35 inches or a man’s is more than 40” you’re setting yourself up for chronic diseases.
Three components make up your body weight: water, lean tissue, and body fat.
Water makes up 70% of your bodyweight. It is in your bloodstream, digestive tract, and every cell in your body.
The primary fuel for your muscles is carbohydrates. In order to store carbs in your muscles, the body has to convert it to glycogen. In order to convert carbs to glycogen, you must pair it with water. By staying hydrated you are increasing your capacity to burn more calories! Drink up.
Lean tissue are cells that make up your bones, cartilage, muscles, hair, and nails.
Muscle (lean tissue) plays a vital role in your ability to lose weight and keep it off. When you strength train or do energy system training you increase production of enzymes that allow you to process more oxygen. The more oxygen, the more calories you will burn (raised metabolism). If you are not eating enough, your metabolism slows down. This has been passed down from our ancestors that lived in a time when starvation or deprivation meant something terrible. The metabolism slows to maintain fat to stay alive. On the other hand, for many of us, starvation never comes and so our bodies continue to store the extra energy and our waistlines grow every year. Although we have evolved from that nature, set point (the amount of fat your body is programmed to maintain) has not.
Body fat is fat cells that are stored mostly in the back of your arms, thighs, hips, abdomen, and less visual places like around your vital organs.
We all need fat. It protects us from the cold, fuels the body, acts as a shock absorber for your organs, and supplies building blocks for hormones and nerves. At the same time, too much fat affects our health (and our figure). If a women’s waistline is more than 35 inches or a man’s is more than 40” you’re setting yourself up for chronic diseases.
