If you want to avoid the multitude of negative side effects from high protein diets, your fat loss approach should have a balanced eating plan in place. And balanced eating will give you a lot more energy per calorie of food consumed.
Unfortunately, even balanced nutrition can STILL lead to excess weight gain. So it is very important for you to grasp how different types of food interact and get shuffled away in your body.
Thus, here is how what you eat gets turned into body fat:
1. Bread, pasta, cereal. All types of carbohydrates, these foods well eventually be broken down into molecules of sugar before entering your blood stream. From there, they will be stored as glycogen and once glycogen levels are full, as fat.
2. Olive oil, nuts, spreads. All types of fat, they get broken down into fatty acids and glycerol. Fat that gets stored under your skin and gives you the flabby look is stored in the form of triglycerides. Make sure you do not skimp here, however, because substantial fat is needed to optimize your fat burning hormonal profile.
3. Steak, fish, poultry. All types of protein, they get broken down into amino acids. These amino acids will then be reconfigured into muscle. But there is a catch: you have to exercise in order for this to happen!
4. Alcohol. The thorn in your fat loss spine, alcohol is usually absorbed without any break down and is converted to excess body fat with ease. It will also slow down the rate at which your body burns fat. Even worse, it leads to the worst kind of fat storage: visceral fat.
Your body has a limited capacity to store food as glycogen or muscle mass. So any excess here will get stored as body fat.
Also, please do not think you can go all out with protein just because some experts tout its thermic effect. Because even too much protein will be stored as body fat, no exceptions here. And please restrict that alcohol intake!
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