Today I’m going to answer one of the most common questions I hear regarding fat loss. That questions is “Why does diet play a big part in fat loss when training?”
I would say that question is about as akin to asking, “Why does breathing play a big role in life?” Take a look at it from a stock car or race car perspective. Your diet is fuel and you need to be feeding a machine right in order for it to operate correctly and things always work better when your body is operating correctly. That includes both gaining muscle and burning fat.
Aside from everything working properly being the most efficient way to achieve anything that you want to do with your body, you have to know what you’re taking in as far as nutrition goes, so that you know if you’re in a deficit or a surplus, because your calories are going in and if you take in more than you need for the activity level that you have, you’re going to store it as fat and that’s the end of the discussion on that.
If you take in less calories to a point without shutting everything down and going into a catabolic mode, if you take in less calories you’re going to start losing weight. Proper nutrition besides the deficit that you create will also help you maintain your mean muscle so that you don’t end up just losing weight and beginning a skinny fat person, but that you end up just ripping off a higher percentage of fat in that weight loss and not muscle tissue as well.
Why does diet play a big role in fat loss training? It just does, it is as important or more important than your training. Just find a slight deficit from your daily caloric needs, which there are a couple of free tools on the internet and I have three different methods to plan your diet and figure this stuff out with the Fat to Fit program. That’s at www.fattofitprogram.com. There’s a video, spreadsheet download and PDF all about eating three different ways that you can cover in there and it’ll also show you where you should start with your training all step by step.
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