Is Your Weight Loss Strategy Causing Muscle Loss Too?

Have you started to wonder if your weight loss strategy is causing muscle loss too? Should you be wondering this if you haven’t already? After all, to be able to burn away unwanted fat, your primary strategy is to consume food in a way that leaves you in a calorie deficit (regardless of what technique you’re using to achieve that goal). On the other hand, when you’re training to build – or even preserve – lean muscles, you usually need to keep up your calories or even eat in a surplus. See the problem?

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Can the Brain Tell the Body to Burn More Fat?

They say that anything can be accomplished when you master the nuances of mind over matter. Well, it just so happens that recent scientific discoveries have confirmed his, at least when it comes to the body being able to burn more fat. That’s right, it seems as though we can actually think our way to a thin and fit physique if we know what we are doing. It all comes down to our unique brain chemistry, our hormonal balances, and our ability to manipulate all of that to our greatest benefit.

How Hormones Play a Starring Role in Weight Loss

There exist natural hormones in every person’s body, and up until recently, they were pretty much disregarded in terms of weight loss. (more…)