🔹 You need to be in a calorie deficit to lose fat. This occurs when you’re body is expending more calories than you are ingesting on a given day. Your body will then resort to lipolysis (the breakdown of fat tissue) for energy. Tracking your food will help you to ensure you stay in a deficit as you begin to lose weight.
🔹 Lift heavy. You need to give your muscles a big enough stimulus to remain and not be broken down for energy. Aim to maintain your strength as you lose fat.
🔹 Get more sleep. Sleep is muscle protective. There’s been countless studies that show, those who get less sleep tend to lose more muscle and less fat than those who sleep more, even when calories are equated.
🔹 Eat more protein. Protein is essential to support sufficient muscle growth and repair. The last thing you want, is to go through all this training and then lose the muscle mass you had due to not consuming enough protein.
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