It is the mind that makes the body. – Sojourner Truth
I am sure, you had a meal before where you didn’t have any protein in it. It was probably tasty meal full of processed carbohydrates like bowl of pasta, muffin with coke, or some bread with jam.
Did you notice how fast you got hungry again? Within an hour or less, you were hungry like a wolf again.
Why is it?
The reason is hormone insulin.
Insulin makes you hungry and fat!
As soon as you eat lot of processed carbohydrates, your pancreas releases insulin into your blood stream to reduce that glucose (sugar) from your blood.
But after that carbohydrate loaded meal, pancreas releases too much of that insulin and takes too much of that blood sugar away.
That makes you lightheaded and you are not able to think clearly, your performance goes down and since your carbohydrate storage liver and muscles are already full, you store that excess carbohydrate as fat.
Than you’re hungry again and you crave more sugar.
And than you eat similar meal and vicious cycle continues.
To put it another way, too much carbohydrate means too much insulin, and too much insulin helps you put on more excess body fat and you can’t get rid of it.
How do you prevent this?
You are already applying the first six pack-flat abs principle about carbohydrates and eating only these carbohydrates, which are great and they don’t raise you insulin too much.
They are natural, not processed.
To make it even more effective and keep blood sugar levels stable longer – critical for achieving your six pack abs, you need to eat some protein in every meal you eat. That means always protein with right carbohydrates.
Protein slows down the entry of carbohydrates to the blood stream, making you not hungry for several hours, keeping you mentally alert and feeling great.
In this stage you energy expenditure is more natural, which means that you are burning glycogen (carbohydrate) and stored excess fat and slowly replenishing that used glycogen in your liver and muscles.
All that while keeping your sugar levels not too high and not too low. Exactly how you want them.
This is a fantastic feature of protein you can’t afford to miss if you want to achieve you six pack abs.
As much as one-half of your dry body weight – including most of your muscle mass, skin, hair, eyes, and nails – is made up of protein.
You must constantly provide protein to your body for new protein formation that’s constantly happening.
What protein is best for you?
All the natural sources least processed.
Here are the only protein choices you should eat from now on to achieve your six pack-flat abs:
- Cod fish
- Haddock fish
- Crab meat
- Milk – whole milk
- Mackerel
- Lobster
- eggs
- Salmon
- Sardines
- Scallops
- Sea bass
- Tuna
- Turkey
- Chicken
- Cottage cheese – whole
- Shrimp
- Soybeans (boiled)
- Soybean imitation meat products
- Soy cheese
- Tofu – organic
- Trout
- grass fed beef fresh meats
- Yogurt
- Protein powder (100% whey or soy protein)
And do only grill your chicken, turkey or fish. Don’t fry it!
How much protein should you eat?
You should eat smaller portions of protein 4 – 5 times per day.
As a rule of thumb, don’t eat more protein in one meal than you can fit into your palm.
And have some good carbohydrate with it. No limit on that. But they have to by only the right carbohydrates from the six pack-flat abs principle # 1 – eat the right carbohydrates only.