Snacks and Healthy Snack Alternatives

The author of the book warns you t, be aware of your food triggers, and if you cannot keep a jar of nuts in your house without polishing off the whole thing in one sitting, you just turned a good thing into something bad.

“If you know something’s your trigger, don’t bring it into the house. It doesn’t matter if it’s healthy or unhealthy. But I think if you put them into little serving baggies, that’s a perfect way to go with it. I also like that because most people aren’t home all day long, so I say, ‘Put one in your car. Put it in your purse. Put it in your office so that you have them scattered around if you ever get in trouble.’

However, you can really enjoy in some healthy snack alternatives. For instance, it is much harder to overdo in dehydrated kale chips. Roasted Brussels sprouts are another alternative that you can’t really “overdose” on.

Nuts, are extremely delicious healthy snack alternative, and they are also great for satisfying the occasional hunger pang. However, note the following two criteria:

1. They’re very high in fat – the good fat, oleic acid, which is similar to olive oil, and
2. They’re low in protein, so you won’t run the risk of eating a whole day’s worth of protein in a few handfuls of nuts (which could be the case if you eat a lot of almonds)

The Maintenance Phase

There is a simple way to test yourself whether you are burning sugar or fat as your primary fuel. Sugar cravings are also virtually eliminated once you’re burning fat rather than sugar. You need to observe how frequently you feel hungry. If you’re hungry every two hours or so, you’re burning sugar.

You’re craving food because sugar is fast burning, and your hunger is an indication that your body wants to be refueled in order to get the needed energy. Once you’re burning fat as your primary fuel, you can easily go five to six hours or longer feeling full, as fat is a far slower-burning fuel.

After the three cycles, the question of the maintenance of this kind of life and eating habits.

Namely, JJ explains this:

“The maintenance phase is different from the weight loss phase. It’s like dating and marriage. Totally different beasts, right? During the maintenance phase—for weight loss—it’s about setting new goals and doing different fitness activities. The biggest thing that I want someone to do is to connect the dots between what they’re eating and how they feel. It’s to lose that sweet tooth that they had and reclaim their sugar sensitivity so they really say, ‘Oh, wow, that’s how sweet a blueberry really is.’

[In the maintenance phase] you’ve got to mix up your exercise; you’ve got to mix up your food… [F]ood is information. You want your food to tell your body to burn fat not sugar, keep steady energy, great focus, and reduce inflammation. It’s the same with exercise. Exercise can be therapeutic or destructive.

I do no endurance training at all. I do not believe in endurance training. I did so much endurance training [when I was younger, yet] I was always slightly overweight. I was never lean.”

Hugh intensity interval-type exercises are strongly advised in the book. Research has shown that the benefits of high intensity exercise are not necessarily related to calories burned, but it rather creates beneficial metabolic changes that promote health and muscle growth while boosting fat burning. These metabolic changes, which include boosting human growth hormone (HGH), do not occur when you’re doing endurance training.

On the other hand, endurance training is in fact among the least effective forms of exercise when it comes to weight loss.

In addition, JJ also praises the advantages of exercising in a fasted state, as this actually helps repair, restore, and rejuvenate your muscle tissues. This approach is opposed to the one which advises loading up on carbs and protein before and after exercise, to boost performance and muscle building.

Regarding this issue, it may be the best for you to try and decide which ne suits you best, regarding your aims.

“I kind of play with both of them. Because if you eat a little bit before you work out, you can generally work out harder. If you’re doing resistance training, a lot of times you’re better off having a little bit [of food] before.

If you’re doing burst training, ideally here’s what you would do: on burst-training days, do it first thing in the morning. It doesn’t take long anyway. It’s 15 minutes at the most. Ideally, do that a couple of mornings a week, two or three mornings a week. You do your resistance training two times a week, have a little bit of food before; have something really good afterwards, and you’re set.”

Conclusion:

This fantastic book gives you extremely beneficial advices on how to eliminate sugar from the diet and avoid its harmful effects. You must remember that the type of food you eat makes all the difference in fact, and when it comes to successfully losing weight, a major key is switching your body from burning sugar to burning fat as its primary fuel.

In order to accomplish your goals, you need to cut down on the fructose-laden foods that instruct your body to store the sugar as fat and eat more.

Source: articles.mercola.com
Reference: livingtraditionally.com