Stay Healthy With The Ideal Muscle And Fat Balance

Stay Healthy With The Ideal Weight And Muscle Fat Balance

Dave Mallegg

Stay Healthy With The Ideal Weight And Muscle Fat Balance

Why Attaining Your Ideal Weight Does Not Always Keep You Staying Healthy.

When two people have the same ideal weight, how can one be very unhealthy and the other is staying healthy? The answer to staying healthy involves two things: 1) Knowing the different characteristics of muscle and fat. 2) Your method of losing the weight.

There are very interesting differences between fat and muscle.

Fat takes up 3 times more space than muscle.
Fat burns 2 calories per day.
Muscle burns 50 calories per day.

So what does all this mean?

It means that if you are mostly fat and have little muscle, you don’t burn as many calories doing nothing as a muscular person will burn.
When you are made up of mostly fat, you will look much larger and look heavier than another person who is muscular and weights exactly the same as the fat person.
It means that if you take steps to lose weight that result in losing muscle and water instead of fat, you will not be staying healthy.
Fat produces toxic waste contributing to not staying healthy.

What is the best way to lose weight?

The best way to stay healthy while you are losing weight or while you maintain your ideal weight is to combine proper eating with proper exercise.

Exercising

The proper exercise will gain muscle while simultaneously losing fat weight, provided you also eat correctly.

Proper exercise involves weight training. Aerobics will burn calories but will not cause you to gain muscle. Properly weight train 2-4 times a week, depending on your intensity. You can use the slow burn technique combined with weights or elastic bands for quick efficient results. You will continue to burn additional calories for hours after you finish your exercise. Also, you can add some interval training for cardio to burn more calories.

To eat properly while you are losing weight (losing fat, not water or muscle) requires eating 4-5 small properly balanced meals each day. A properly balanced meal includes 1/3 raw food, (cooked foods kill all the enzymes and lots of the nutrition), about 25-30% lean protein calories, about 40-50% low glycemic carbohydrate calories, and about 25-30% good fat calories.

Remember keeping your ideal weight with an improper balance of fat and muscle is not the way to stay healthy.

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