How To Lose Weight For The Elderly "Over 50 Years"

Weight loss to take advantage of this new understanding those of us over the age of 50 must learn some new tricks.

 I'll share how to look at a fat loss in a new light so, you can get the results that you want I was born in 1967 which was around the time that the war on fat began so like most of you I grew up thinking that eating fat makes you fat, and that carbohydrates were the key to good health and weight control so, you could enjoy your toast in the morning but if you were smart you would skip the butter and while dry toast might not have been a very satisfying breakfast at least it was breakfast because we were taught that breakfast was the most important meal of the day with the thought is that it was needed to stimulate or wake up our metabolisms and finally we were told that this way of eating would work out as fine as long as we did not consume too many calories so food choices didn't matter and as long as you consumed fewer calories than you burned you'd lose weight the nice thing about these rules was that they were very clear the bad thing was that they didn't work, and we have watched the obesity rates skyrocket since the time that we were growing up and most of us have heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results and I think there is a lot of truths to that statement and that if we want to lose weight as we age 

We have to be open to doing different things and adopting different eating habits and I would say that we are very fortunate to be living in this present time when we have a new understanding of how the body loses weight we now know.

That weight loss is a hormonal e controlled process so food choices matter as much if not more than calories there are three main nutrients that provide your body with calories they are carbohydrates proteins and fats each of these nutrients has a different effect the fat-storing hormone called insulin carbohydrates like breads and cereals cause the greatest spike in insulin protein sources like eggs and meat cause a subtle rise in insulin and fats like butter have very little impact on insulin if weight loss is your goal it makes sense to reduce your intake of foods that spike insulin and eat more of the ones that don't spike it in other words, it a low carb high fat moderate protein diet how do you do that by making different food choices.

So for breakfast instead of dry toast eat eggs fried in butter or consider skipping breakfast altogether what that  will do is keep insulin low for an extended amount of time which keeps your body in a fat-burning state longer and by the way around 4 a.M. We all experience a surge of hormones, and that hormonal surge is what wakes us up and jump-starts our metabolisms not as much eating, so I know that this is a lot of information to wrap your head around

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