The issue of how to lose weight properly can be handled in many ways. One such technique that is commonly understood to lose weight is to eat less food. Not only is managing the amount of food that you consume very useful, but choosing the type of calories that you put into your body affects the amount of weight gain you get from absorbing fat is very is an effective technique as well. Consuming foods that have higher nutrient density such as protein and healthy fats versus foods that have starchy, high glycemic index carbs, will positively influence the body to transfer proteins into lean muscles and also utilize healthy fats as a fuel source without telling the body to absorb fats as subcutaneous adipose tissue causing unwanted weight gain.
While it is a good method to control the amount of lean proteins that are consumed during a meal, a common issue that we get from our Personal Training clients in Napa is that they find themselves eating way too much of the healthy proteins in one sitting. For example, a standard serving size of protein is about 3 oz. of a certain type of fish, chicken, or nuts. This will deliver anywhere in between 10 to 20 grams protein. However, when omitting carbohydrates and eating lean proteins, we find that it is very easy to overeat the amount of protein that are in these healthy dishes. At times, our clients admit that they eat an entire steak as opposed to half a steak. When an entire steak is consumed, there will be about 50 grams protein and other saturated fats delivered into the system, which only half of that amount can be sufficiently utilized to be delivered to synthesize lean muscle mass. The other portion of this meal can easily be stored as fat tissue and cause unwanted weight gain.
To solve this issue and answer some questions about how to remedy the effects of overeating during one meal, we recommend to our Personal Training clients in Napa to eat vegetables before eating anything else that is on the plate. Some examples of vegetables can be anything from a healthy salad or some roasted vegetables. By placing vegetables as the priority of foods that are eaten before proteins, the volume of the stomach will be expanded and the desire to eat excess protein will be slightly decreased. Not only will the desire to be to overeat be reduced, but this now gives the opportunity to absorb healthy antioxidants, anti-fungals, and other beneficial vitamins and nutrients to the body.
Overeating can be an obstacle to losing weight. However, it’s hard to just simply eat less food. Then start starving ourselves. And that’s never any fun at all. However, by adding something else into a diet of eating lean proteins and consuming less carbohydrates, such as vegetables and salads before you eat your proteins, the journey to losing weight can be more efficiently influenced.
