Fri, Dec-07-01, 17:14
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,118
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Plan: South Beach
Stats: 170/139/130
BF:
Progress: 78%
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Supposedly there have been controlled studies where people were fed the same amount of total calories per day but in different frequency. Seems the people that ate more frequently had a higher metabolic rate (and therefore burned more calories) than the people who only had 1-3 meals a day.
Eating frequently also makes sure you are never so hungry that you will eat whatever is quick and available, whether it is on your eating plan or not.
Exercise will definately help. But to get the most benefit out of it, that too should be done a certain way. Yes, you can walk for 30 minutes at a fairly brisk pace and burn some calories. But if you walked for 20 minutes using HIIT, (high intensity interval training), you would burn more calories during the walk and continue to burn extra calories even after the walk was finished. Strength training is really important also. Muscle is metabolically more active than fat, so muscle tissue burns more calories even when you are being a couch potato. Also, muscle is denser than fat, so a pound of it is considerably smaller than a pound of fat. And don't worry about looking like a bodybuilding competitor. Females naturally have a layer of fat covering their muscles. It is only when their body fat levels get quite low (about 12% or so) will they start looking like those pictures you see in the female bodybuilding magazines. And even those women don't look that way all year - when they are going to compete they intentionally lower their body fat so their muscles will show.
I would suggest checking out the exercise forum and finding out about BFL (Body for Life). It really is an excellent program and as Nat is proving, very compatable with a low carb lifestyle.
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