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Food Intake
The key to fat loss is to take in fewer calories every 24 hours than you expend.
It is a well-known fact – you cannot lose body fat unless you consume fewer calories than you expend. Therefore, adjusting food intake will assist you in creating the energy deficit needed to utilize the body’s fat stores.
You will find that the body will try to counteract this deficit in order to restore your body’s energy balance. The body does this by adapting to the food intake through reducing energy expenditure (e.g. losing lean body mass) or forcing non-compliance (through hunger or cravings). These biological survival tactics must be continually outsmarted if fat reduction is to continue.
For increasing Lean Body Mass, the calories consumed need to be above the current level of calories you have been using for maintenance. These extra calories should be no more than the amount needed to build and sustain the increase in lean body mass initiated by appropriate exercise.
Most weight loss plateaus are caused because people are rarely consistent about adhering to the proper amount of calories to maintain body-fat reduction or increase their lean body mass. This is why it is important to gain the knowledge and work with a personal trainer using the correct guidelines on food intake in order to meet your goals.
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