Who hasn't taken a trip to the harbour, for a fish auction at their vacation destination, or early in the morning to get fish fresh out of the water? Fish, shellfish and crustaceans are the stars of summer dishes.
Our muscles, our slimming allies
You've started exercising and watching your diet, but your weight is hardly changing at all - or even increasing. Why doesn't the scale reflect your efforts?
Know that the practice physical activity does not necessarily lead to weight loss, since muscle weighs more than fat. So you can lose body fat and increase muscle mass without seeing any change on the scale.
However, it's important to understand that at the same time, your body changes with each session. It tones and refines. You feel better in your clothes, less tight in your favorite jeans that you keep as a reference.
In short, by exercising, you don't necessarily lose weight, but you do slim down by reshaping your figure through a reduction in fat mass in favour of muscle..
Sport helps to build muscle, and muscle consumes calories. So, for the same weight-height-age-activity ratio, a more muscular person will burn more calories every day. Muscle even consumes calories when we sleep! What's more, the more muscular you are, the higher your basic energy expenditure. This is called basic metabolism (BM), the energy you expend at rest to ensure vital functions (brain, muscles, liver, kidneys...). It is therefore essential to maintain or even increase your muscle mass in order to achieve a high BMR.
Conversely, people with low muscle mass and therefore a low basal metabolic rate will have lower basal expenditure and will therefore need to eat less to meet their lower needs.
What's more, by eating too little on a daily basis, you get your body used to low energy levels. In response, your body will go into "energy-saving" mode, burning less to make up for the shortfall. So forget draconian diets: to lose weight in the right conditions and then stabilize properly, you need to eat enough!
Your diet should provide you with at least 1300 kcal for a woman and 1500 kcal for a man, which corresponds to minimum needs (metabolism). These needs are naturally higher for a well-muscled person...hence the importance of restoring or maintaining your muscle mass!
Finally, a diet providing sufficient protein is important for muscle maintenance. Don't neglect it! Whether of animal or vegetable origin, vary your sources to cover your needs as much as possible.
Consequently, regular physical activity or sport coupled with a healthy diet is a winning combination for achieving your weight targets.
Our muscles, our slimming allies
You've started exercising and watching your diet, but your weight is hardly changing at all - or even increasing. Why doesn't the scale reflect your efforts?
Know that the practice physical activity does not necessarily lead to weight loss, since muscle weighs more than fat. So you can lose body fat and increase muscle mass without seeing any change on the scale.
However, it's important to understand that at the same time, your body changes with each session. It tones and refines. You feel better in your clothes, less tight in your favorite jeans that you keep as a reference.
In short, by exercising, you don't necessarily lose weight, but you do slim down by reshaping your figure through a reduction in fat mass in favour of muscle..
Sport helps to build muscle, and muscle consumes calories. So, for the same weight-height-age-activity ratio, a more muscular person will burn more calories every day. Muscle even consumes calories when we sleep! What's more, the more muscular you are, the higher your basic energy expenditure. This is called basic metabolism (BM), the energy you expend at rest to ensure vital functions (brain, muscles, liver, kidneys...). It is therefore essential to maintain or even increase your muscle mass in order to achieve a high BMR.
Conversely, people with low muscle mass and therefore a low basal metabolic rate will have lower basal expenditure and will therefore need to eat less to meet their lower needs.
What's more, by eating too little on a daily basis, you get your body used to low energy levels. In response, your body will go into "energy-saving" mode, burning less to make up for the shortfall. So forget draconian diets: to lose weight in the right conditions and then stabilize properly, you need to eat enough!
Your diet should provide you with at least 1300 kcal for a woman and 1500 kcal for a man, which corresponds to minimum needs (metabolism). These needs are naturally higher for a well-muscled person...hence the importance of restoring or maintaining your muscle mass!
Finally, a diet providing sufficient protein is important for muscle maintenance. Don't neglect it! Whether of animal or vegetable origin, vary your sources to cover your needs as much as possible.
Consequently, regular physical activity or sport coupled with a healthy diet is a winning combination for achieving your weight targets.
OUR OTHERS TIPS
The heat is back! You're now better prepared to face the heat, but do you know why your appetite isn't so good in these conditions? And above all, what precautions should you take with regard to your diet?
Summer is the perfect time to fill up on vitamins (A, B, C...) and minerals (magnesium, iron, zinc...). They belong to the family of micronutrients, nutrients we need in very small quantities (micrograms or milligrams) but which are nonetheless essential to our health. They must be provided by the diet, and have the advantage of being calorie-free.
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