I know you've been told that what you eat after exercise is
critically important when you want to increase fatburning.
After you train, you need to feed your muscles protein and carbs
to begin the recovery process, right?
But will the extra calories sabotage the melting process you just
triggered at the gym?Should you skip your post-workout meal to allow your body to continue to piggyback off of your calorie deficit and slowly burn away more fat?
Fact is, there’s a very specific biological process that happens to your body after your workout.
What You Eat After Your Workout Can
Make Or Break Your Weight Loss Program!
It’s true.
What you eat after your workout can either skyrocket your results…or send you into a muscle-wasting, fat-accumulating tailspin!
You see, after your training, your muscles are desperate for support.
They’re low on sugar and the muscle tissue itself is primed to be broken down and wasted away as fuel.
When you skip a meal after your workout, your muscles go from a slow muscle-losing descent…to a MAYDAY NOSEDIVE!
The result is that your metabolism actually slows down, you become more lethargic, and you end up burning muscle instead of fat.
And since muscle is your body’s “fat-burning engine”, this will make it even harder for you to lose weight.
In short, NEVER skip your post-workout meal!
They’re low on sugar and the muscle tissue itself is primed to be broken down and wasted away as fuel.
But WHAT you eat after your workout should be very SPECIFIC to your fitness goal…
What To Eat After Your Workout
To Lose Weight Fast…
To burn more fat after your workout, you’ll want to keep your protein intake high.
Protein is thermogenic (meaning it burns fat just in the digestion process alone) and it will help you build and maintain healthy lean muscle tissue.
But you have to gauge your carbohydrate intake based upon your current weight loss progress and what you want to achieve.
If your workout was high intensity you still want to stick to your high-glycemic carbs (higher sugar content) after your workout (but not as much – just one serving or so)
But if your workout was low-intensity or if you’re just trying to get rid of those last few pounds, you should actually stick to a LOW GLYCEMIC carb source to go with your protein!
If you’re already at super low body fat levels, you need to avoid raising your insulin at all and so you actually have to go “low glycemic” all the time to force your body to turn to fat for every little scrap of energy.
By paying close attention to your post-workout meal, you can see faster results from your weight loss program and avoid the frustrating plateaus that can sabotage your progress.
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