Sentences with phrase «maintain than fat»

Muscle requires a great deal more energy to maintain than fat.

Muscle mass requires a lot more energy to maintain than fat and when times get tough, your body does everything it can to GET RID OF that muscle so it can survive longer.

Not exact matches

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

Intermittent fasting helps put your body into and maintain a state of ketosis, in which you start converting fat into ketones used for powering your body more efficiently than carbs.

In a ketogenic diet, you try to consume less than 50 net carbs per day, plus maintain a 4:1 ratio of fats to protein.

Mice that lost weight and then gained back more than they lost maintained an obesity - type microbiome that affected biochemicals involved in either burning or adding fat — suggesting interventions.

The human body naturally burns more calories each day to maintain a pound of muscle than it does to maintain a pound of fat.

The more muscle mass an individual is carrying, the more effective their metabolisms will be because muscle requires more calories to maintain than body fat, so in order to maintain muscle mass, the body is forced to burn more calories and convert them into energy, which is does via the metabolism.

«As insulin works to prevent fat being burnt to preserve muscle and fat mass, high levels of insulin can result in a situation where fat is stored rather than burnt, leading to difficulty in losing and maintaining weight.»

Women are likely to survive for longer than men because of the higher proportion of fat stores and less muscle mass, which requires more calories to maintain.

«If you have a genetic predisposition to storing more fat or burning kilojoules slower than others, it may mean that you have to work harder at it than other people, but it certainly doesn't mean you can't maintain a healthy weight.»

Fat loss, on the other hand, requires a calorie deficit, which means consuming less energy than your body needs to maintain its weight.

When you want to shed body fat, the most basic thing you need to do is create a caloric deficit, or eat fewer calories than your maintenance value, or the amount you need to consume to maintain your current weight.

I've always maintained that it is far more effective to go to work on a hormonal level to lose fat and build muscle rather than a «calories in — calories out» level (although it can be useful in some contexts.)

And remember that a body that's leaner (less body fat), more toned, and well maintained may weigh more, but looks slimmer, healthier and glowing than a body that's thinner, fabby, dehydrated and un-cared for.

However, since fiber is needed for maintaining a healthy digestve system and it can promote greater fat loss, you should strive to consume a decent amount of it (no more than 35 grams) every day.

The human body naturally burns more calories to maintain a pound of muscle than a pound of fat, for example.

In one 2008 study, obese participants who were given a whey protein supplement lost significantly more body fat and maintained more muscle than the placebo group.

Research shows that you only need about 0.2 grams of fat per pound of body weight to maintain your health, and there are few benefits of eating more than 0.3 grams per pound of body weight.

In order to lose fat, you must maintain a calorie deficit over time by burning more calories than you consume.

When you eat more calories than you need to maintain this level of body fat, your body makes changes to keep you from gaining weight.

After all, if the ultimate goal of losing fat is to maintain a calorie deficit over time by consistently burning more calories than you consume, how could a calorie - burning tool such as cardio end up working against you?

When you eat fewer calories than your body needs to maintain this level of body fat, your body makes changes to keep you from losing weight.

You can gain fat more easily than the ectomorph, but with the right cardio balance, you can maintain a lean muscle body.

Lose weight and Burn more calories: It is a well - known fact today that our bodies burn more calories maintaining muscle than they do to maintain fat.

When you maintain a calorie deficit, your body reduces fat levels everywhere in your whole body (with some areas losing fat more quickly than others, but that's another article).

The reason it does this is by increasing the amount of lean muscle mass you carry, which requires more energy to maintain and repair than fat tissue.

This is most likely the reason why so many scientific research done on losing weight and maintaining the lost body weight have revealed that you would probably have to work harder to maintain your slim stature than you worked to shed your excess body fat in the first place.

As we discussed earlier, in order to maintain the state of ketosis, your diet must contain less than 30 grams of carbohydrate per day, and contain an average of 60 - 70 % calories from dietary fat and 20 - 35 % calories from protein.

I'm sure you already know this, but building muscle takes a lot longer than burning fat, so you want to maintain every single ounce of hard earned muscle you've built when trying to do so.

The energy required to maintain muscle is higher than the energy required to maintain fat so both these equations will be off for either very lean or very fat people.

Despite these apparently quite high intakes, there are indications that athletes are under pressure to maintain a low bodyweight or body fat percentage, as dysfunctional eating behaviours and higher scores on eating disorder scales have been observed in female Olympic weightlifters than normal control subjects (Walberg & Johnston, 1991).

I'm trying hard to maintain as much reliance on the tanker (fat) rather than the gas tank (priceless analogy, BTW), but it is getting tough in practice.

It was observed that people who ate food such as nuts, soy, avocado, olive oil, and oats saw a greater drop in cholesterol than those who maintained a low - fat diet.

The way to lose fat is to burn more calories than you take in so your body will use its storage to maintain.

I fall into the category of VLC eating and low body fat maintained for 2 year after 20 years of 4 pregnancies, birthing bringing up children and being overweight by up to 30 kilos more than I am now.

I run long distance and find being fat adapted maintains energy levels better than needing to keep trying to feed on the run with carbohydrates.

This problem more than likely was caused by poor eating habits maintaining an unhealthy ratio of omega - 6 to -3 fats.

Muscle tissue is more metabolically active than fat tissue but the extra calories it takes to maintain muscle mass is nothing to write home about.

Lower your fat intake, and I guarantee you your cholesterol will go down.I eat a high carb, low fat, low protein vegan diet, blood work is perfect across the board, I eat more calories, than an 18 year old (48), and I maintain a 7 % body fat year round, and hardly exercise, maybe walk my dog.Never have had a problem with diabetes, because I keep to a low fat diet.Also you will lose weight, because the fat you eat, is the fat you wear.

It seems most people struggle with weight and so should be on the low end, but for people like me who find it hard to maintain a BMI over 18.5 without a lot of fat from nuts and seeds, I found Dr. Furhman's opinion a relief (I simply could not eat more carbs than I do).

Someone who is maintaining or dropping weight will more than likely metabolize saturated fats for energy.

1.3 - Conclusion on point 1: Try to eat as much energy as you spend while you build muscle (without forgeting the protein rate) or, if you want to lose fat and maintain those muscles as you get lean try to do a hipocaloric diet 5 days a week (hipocaloric means less energy than the one you spend, but it does not mean you are eating less!)

Researchers maintain that HIIT results in excellent health benefits that include improved metabolism and fat burning, or increased insulin sensitivity that is more effective than the results of a conventional continuous exercise.

As a general rule, if you were always lean as a child and teenager you will do much better to maintain testosterone levels than someone who was fatter as a child and teenager.

Although you may start your bodybuilding career with a physique that, when maintaining, tends to store more fat and less muscle than you'd prefer, the more times you alternate between periods of subtle deficit and surplus, the more you will move the «set point» towards a physique that is leaner and carries more muscle at your body's preferred weight.

To maintain a pound of fat your body needs less than 5 % of the calories per hour than it needs to maintain a pound of muscle.

It defends less against overfeeding than it does against underfeeding, which is largely why it's easier to gain weight than it is to lose it or, in this case, maintain fat loss.

I would actually argue that maintaining fat loss results for the long term can in fact be more stressful than achieving them in the first place.

I mean the modern way to lose fat, which is to eat 4 small meals a day, each containing some form of protein and making sure you consume 500 less calories per day than your body needs to maintain its present weight.