Caution: 5 Reasons Why Arm Flab And High Protein Dieting Don’t Mix
Look Younger – Foods, Look Younger - Skin & BodyThere used to be a period in time when all we ate was what could be gathered or hunted. Arm flab, a common female nightmare, was most likely not a problem in those times.
Enter the mass production of food and the savvy marketing of snake oil diets.
Once big businesses caught wind of the profit to be made by selling food and diets, all the lies and misinformation starting hitting the air waves. Eating became very confusing
And to this date, I believe that high protein diets have had the biggest impact in our society. How so? Because high protein diets cause the fastest change on the weight scale in comparison to any other diet out there.
Nevertheless, consider the following 5 arm flab pitfalls of high protein diets before buying all those steaks:
1. Vanishing energy: Your body is most efficient at producing energy with a steady intake of carbs. Without them, your rate of energy production will drop by 300%. The end result? Massive brain fog and lethargy.
2. Diminished exercise capacity: Your muscles can produce a lot more ATP (energy currency) with carbohydrates. In their absence, exercise will become very painful and recovery will be virtually impossible.
3. Insulin issues: Very high protein intakes can mess up a normal insulin balance. Carbohydrates aren’t the only insulin-changing macronutrients.
4. An instantaneous loss in muscle tone: Water within your muscles makes them look tight and compact. Once you stop eating carbs, all the water will flush out.
5. The highest weight rebound: As illustrated by Stanford University research, high protein diets a la Atkins have the highest and largest rates of weight regain. Not good for those wishing to keep the arm flab off!
High protein diets are very seductive. After all, they do produce the fastest weight loss. And nothing is more motivating that literally seeing that scale move overnight. Unfortunately, said diets come at a very steep price. Even worse, you could potentially gain everything back once you start eating carbs again. For these reasons, I do NOT recommend high protein diets for women wishing to get rid of arm flab.
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