Not Hungry Anymore? What It Says About Your Metabolism

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If you're not hungry, then that's a sign of an unhealthy metabolism. And so if you want to cut weight, or if you want to build muscle, you have to fix this process first, before you go into any type of cut, before putting your workouts where they need to be, all that stuff.

So our body, our metabolism, has this range of how many calories it can burn. It can make itself more efficient or less efficient with calories. When your body becomes less efficient with calories, it wastes more energy, it wastes more calories. You want to be less efficient. When it becomes more efficient, it conserves more calories, it holds on to more calories.

Macronutrients is not another diet, right? It's not like I'm jumping on the macronutrient train today. Macronutrients is a lifestyle change that will serve you for the rest of your life. It is a skill set that will serve you for the rest of your life. You are understanding food, you are understanding what is being placed on your plate, you are understanding portion sizes. You do this long enough, you're going to know what three ounces of chicken looks like, what half a cup of rice looks like. I guarantee it. I'm telling you this because I'm living proof. Eight years later, I can look at a plate of food and be like, that's protein, that's a carb, that's a fat, and probably give a ballpark estimate of how much it is in ounces and grams. So you're developing these habits, these routines, this understanding of food that encompasses an entire lifestyle change.

Metabolism is what a lot of people think is broken, because of the things you've maybe done or tried that have led your metabolism to slow down and not really work with you, and kind of work against you. People are eating 1,100, 1,200, 1,300 calories, and I'm going to get to that in a second. But that's just enough to basically help you survive. What about the other calories you need when you work out and you build strength, you build muscle? With people's metabolisms, it's like you're throwing spaghetti up against the wall and it's not sticking, and you're wondering why you're not getting results. We need to bring into the picture why strength training is so important, and why this concept of having more muscle on your body will improve your metabolism in so many ways. So if you guys want to eat more, you want to get the results, you want to decrease any health conditions or reduce the risk of them coming in the future, building muscle is your answer.

I started out my journey maybe being around that normal number for a BMR, which is like 1,100 calories, 1,300 calories. It's different for everybody. It's based on your age, your weight, your height, and your sex, and even getting down to your body composition and other things as well. For me, I don't have a measure of where my BMR was when I started out. But through the years of strength training, eight years now, doing the work, putting in the work, being consistent, making it my routine and making it my whole lifestyle, I have significantly added more muscle mass to my body. And so my BMR has increased, and my ability to burn more calories while my body is at rest is higher, because I have more metabolically active tissue on my body, which is more active than fat tissue.

There are so many different diets out there, and they have their own set of rules and restrictions. So, like you guys know, a low carb diet involves reducing the amount of carbohydrates that you consume. Typically, people know this diet as eliminating bread and pasta and rice. It's like, why do you have to eliminate that? You don't have to. You just need to understand what portion sizes you should have of this specific food group in your day, right?

And keto, this is another very popular diet. It's a very low carb, high fat diet that's designed to put your body in the state of ketosis, where it burns more fat for energy instead of glucose. But why? You can have carbohydrates. You can have these fuel sources used interchangeably throughout your day and still get the results that you want. Keto, guys, is not sustainable. Cool, if you want to do it for a couple of months, no hate towards it in that sense. If you want to do it, and you can sustain it, you can maintain it, and you're not going in and out of ketosis... if you want to do it for a couple of months...

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