Muscle is Key to Long-Term Weight Loss

I believe, as you age strength training is the best thing you can do to improve your health and fitness level. Strength training is important because around age 40 you start to experience muscle loss. “If you don’t do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose, you’ll increase the percentage of fat in your body,” says Dr. Edward Laskowski, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Left unabated, you can lose up to 10 pounds of muscle each decade starting at age 40.

Loosing muscle is detrimental to your fitness because muscle is the component of your body that burns the majority of the calories you consume each day. Therefore, when you lose muscle your body requires less calories to function. Consequently, those extra calories you consume are stored as fat around your waist, hips, and other places.

Your body constantly burn calories, even when you’re doing nothing. This resting metabolic rate is much higher in people with more muscle. Every pound of muscle uses about six calories a day to sustain itself, while each pound of fat burns only two calories daily. This small difference can add up over time. In addition, after a bout of resistance training, muscles are activated all over your body, increasing your average daily metabolic rate.

Fortunately, strength training and the proper amount of protein in your diet can mitigate, and even reverse the loss of muscle at any age. Thus, increasing the amount of calories needed to function. That’s why you hear some people say that their appetites increase after they have been strength training for awhile. This is a sign that they are starting to build muscle.

It's been proven that consuming 25 to 30 grams of high quality protein within 30 minutes of completing a strength training session is the most effective way to stimulate muscle growth and recovery.  Thus, I use Protein My Whey for my recovery immediately after my workouts.  Protein My Whey contains 26 grams of muscle building whey protein isolates, one of the highest quality protein sources available.  In addition Protein My Whey is:

• Fat Free
• Cholesterol Free
• Only contains 1 gram of carbohydrates
• Sugar Free
• Lactose Free
• Sweetened with Stevia

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Protein is Important for Your Overall Health

Protein is a necessary part of every living cell in your body.  Next to water, protein comprises up the greatest portion of your body weight.  Protein substances make up your muscles, ligaments, tendons, organs, glands, nails, hair, and many vital body fluids.  It is essential for the growth, repair, and healing of your bones, tissues, and cells.  In addition, the enzymes and hormones that catalyze and regulate your body processes are comprised of protein.  So, you see the proper amount of protein in your diet is vital for your health and well being.

The problem is most people eat too many carbohydrates in their diets and not enough protein.  This is a major contributing factor to the obesity epidemic and it's associated health problems.  New research shows that you need 25 to 30 grams of high quality protein at each meal to be most beneficial for your body.  This is especially true at breakfast.

In my 20 plus years in the health and fitness industry I have observed that most people start their day with a breakfast that is very high in carbohydrates (fruit, cereals, juices, and bread) and low in protein.  Eating this way starts your day in fat storage mode because all those carbohydrates are converted to sugar and are mostly stored as body fat.  Then you crave more foods high in sugar.

If you begin your day by eating a breakfast with 25 to 30 grams of protein balanced by no more than 25 to 30 grams of carbohydrates you activate your muscles and start your day in fat burning mode.  You will find that you are energized until your next meal without the cravings for more sugary foods.

One of the easiest ways to start your day with the proper balance of protein and carbohydrates is by drinking a protein smoothie.  I get my day started with a protein smoothie 5 to 6 days each week and I have done so for many years. 

Thus, I am pleased to announce the launch of my first customized nutritional product called Protein My Whey.  Each serving of Protein My Whey contains:

• 26 grams of protein isolate (one of the highest quality most digestible protein sources)
• 1 gram of carbohydrates
• 0 fat grams
• No Cholesterol
• No sugar
• Sweetened with Stevia
• And is lactose free

Here is one of my favorite breakfast smoothies I drink to get my day started in a fat burning and energized mode.

• 1 cup of frozen blueberries
• 1 cup of plain almond milk
• 1 packet of Protein My Whey

Mix in a blender and this smoothie yields: 246 calories, 3 grams of fat, 29 grams of carbohydrates, 28 grams of protein.

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