Medical Advice Week 1

So you want to lose some weight? The thing that you need to realize that it is not weight you want to lose,but fat. There are a lot of diets that help you lose lots of weight but it may not be all fat, but muscle as well.

To stop from losing muscle during a diet it is important to make sure that you have enough protein in your diet. If you don't have enough protein in your diet about 50% of your weight loss will be fat and the other 50% will be muscle. By taking in enough protein you reduce that ration to about 90 fat and 10% muscle. Losing muscle makes you tired and lowers your metabolism which makes it even harder to lose weight.

So what is protein? You can get protein from meat, cheese, eggs and supplements. (You can even get it from soy if you are brave enough).

So how much protein should you take? You should be eating about 1 gram of protein for every kilogram of your ideal body weight. To find out how many kilograms you weigh, divide your ideal body weight in pounds by 2.2 and you will get the number of kilograms your ideal body weight is.

So for example, if you weight 90 kilograms you should be eating at least 90 grams of protein every day to reduce the amount of muscle you lose during your diet.

Good luck and don't be afraid to have some steak once in a while. Let me know if you have any questions.