How Much Meat is Neat?

As previously stated in one of my earlier posts, your diet shouldn’t make you skimp on specific nutrients that your body needs. Protein is one of the vital nutrients that our body needs for various functions aside from the widely known role in muscle repair, bone building and brain functions. This is why we must be able to regularly supply our body with protein.

On the subject of losing a belly fat, you’d still need protein if you want those washboard abdominal muscles that are developed and toned. In fact, protein can even speed up the process of your weight loss from exercising and dieting. Protein is needed for building muscles, and the more developed muscles will then consume a higher amount of calories that it becomes your fat burning tool. In diet, eating a protein rich diet will help you avoid getting hungry quicker. Why is this so? Here’s a rundown on how your body takes in food.

When you’re eating a carbohydrate-based diet, those carbohydrates are broken down into sugars, which will then increase your blood sugar level. The risk of this kind of diet is that when the blood sugar is heightened above normal levels, the body will release insulin to lower it. There will be times when the insulin released is higher than what is needed, thus resulting in low blood sugar and causing your body to crave for carbohydrates. This will make you hungry. This will make you suffer.

However, if you’re relying on a protein rich diet, you’re blood sugar won’t increase as much and you could avoid an insulin response that could make you hungry.  This will make you feel full for a longer amount of time, so you won’t crave so much.

Another benefit of protein is that your body will actually burn more calories during digestion.

So with all the good benefits of having protein in your diet, you’d wonder how much protein is ideal for you.

The answer is quite simple. It is suggested that having 30 percent of your daily calorie intake should come from protein. That means if your recommended daily calorie intake is 2000, you must take in 600 calories from protein. 600 calories translates to 150grams of protein.

So there’s your number, 150grams of protein.