So you wanna be fit and healthy?
If you want to be fit and healthy there are some things you need to know green warrior. First, To understand your body and your metabolism and how it regenerates and burns fat and builds muscle properly you have to understand some of its basic mechanics.
To do all of these functions it requires the environment inside your body and your muscles to be an alkaline environment. Alkaline foods are all plant based foods.
Acidic environments create a breeding ground for not only diseases but poor muscle growth and restoration and bad fat storing. Acidic foods are all animal based foods.
So from this its clear which you should be eating and what you should be avoiding.
You NEED nutrition!
And by the way you need more than protein. Although protein is a significant nutrient, the actual digestion, absorption and utilization of protein to build and repair muscle and shed bad fat is only possible when your micro nutrients are in check.
Micro Nutrients? Yep. Vitamins and Minerals my peeps. Phytonutrients, Antioxidants AND probiotics!
Probiotics are also key because without them you can't digest and absorb anything! (probiotics we'll talk more on that later)
Eating even what I eat I need put some extra good stuff in my body.
Because of how nutrient deficient our soil is you'd have to each 3 and 4 times as many servings in fruits and veggies to get the nutrient content your body needs.
Your Muscles need help!
Shakes are not just great nutrition for meal replacements or between meals they actually have enough necessary nutrients to improve your workouts and make recovery after a workout faster and easier.
When you workout, no matter if your lifting weights, running or swimming, your muscles tear. They tear and then rebuild themselves. Thats your bodies natural process. Working out helps you build and define muscle the way you want. It burns calories and burns fat even after your done working out.
To help your muscles do this efficiently You need nutrients, Macro and Micro nutrients.
Macronutrients and Micronutrients
Whats a macro nutrient? Protein, carbs, fats (good fats)...
Whats a micro nutrient? Vitamins, minerals....
PLEASE DON'T do this...
DONT skip meals. Starving yourself only adds to the problem. Your body will go into a state of emergency believing that it will not receive food for a long time so it will store fat instead from what ever you do eat trying to save itself. This is survivor mode and when your body enters this state cortisol is produced.
***Cortisol is a nasty little hormone produced by your endocrine system. Your adrenal glands pump you full of cortisol when your body is in a state of stress. Cortisol creates acidity and keeps bad fat where its at and multiplying.
DONT calorie count. You do not need to do this when you are consuming nutritionally dense alkaline foods. Restricting good calories that are high in nutrients deprives your body of much needed nutrients and energy and actually keeps the fat on. Its causes the same affect as starving so even if you see some minor results in the beginning you will inevitably not only put the weight back on but put on even more than you had before.
