On your quest for fat loss, it’s important to try and learn as much information as possible, as this is what will allow you to know advanced methods that will help strip that fat off as quickly as possible.
In this quest for information though, it’s vitally important that you question with your own mind what you’re reading.
Far too often you will read something from a source that seems like it should be credible, but goes against much of what you’d read elsewhere.
Therefore, by putting more effort into ongoing learning, you’re going to stand a much better chance of being able to decipher fact from fiction in the game of weight loss.
For instance, let’s pick on a particular source to really drive this point home. Most of you are familiar with or have heard of the magazine, Glamour.
Recently, they published this post under their fat loss blog on post-workout nutrition.
Now, they are claiming that ‘researchers’ have just discovered that you should avoid eating immediately after a workout.
But, by taking a closer look at the study, it’s more about the fact that you need that calorie deficit to lose weight. Obviously if you tell people to not eat after a workout when they normally would, this will lower their daily total calorie intake, meaning greater fat loss. BUT, you could theoretically create that deficit at any point in the day, which would be a much smarter move.
Anyone who has been around the fitness, weight loss, and muscle building industry for more than a few years knows that immediately after a workout is when the body is most in need of nutrients and will be least likely to turn them into body fat.
THAT is when you should be eating.
But, there goes Glamour magazine, posting that you should avoid eating to help fat loss, while millions of young women are reading it, thinking this is the truth.
Then we wonder why all these issues of very-low calorie stavation diets get started, or why so many women in North America are struggling to lose body fat – it’s because they’re virtually eating away at their muscle tissue, which is what actually helps them in the game of fat loss.
This post is just an all around bad idea. The only time when you might be able to get away with not eating after a workout is if you are doing an easy cardio session.
That’s it.
Post workout. Eat up. Your body needs it.
And, be careful of what you read and believe.
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