Carbohydrates and Fats have both taken their turn as the evil food that you should never eat, but protein is always the golden child that can do no wrong.
Or can it?
Protein has been put so high on a pedestal for both weight loss and muscle gaining that you can begin to suffer from something that some call “protein guilt”.
So what is protein guilt?
If you eat any food and especially EXTRA food simply because you think you need it for protein, then you have protein guilt.
Do you analyse every meal for its protein content? Do you try to make sure you get 30 grams?
This is a perfect example of protein guilt – feeling guilty if you didn’t eat a precise amount of protein at every meal. Maybe you just don’t enjoy food anymore, if you only worry about the protein content because you believe protein is so important for burning fat and gaining muscle, which it is.
You may be actually OVEREATING because of the need to get more protein into you body. An extra glass of milk? An extra chicken breast? Anything to make sure you are eating MORE protein. You could even be denying the fact that you are overeating just to get more protein.
It may even be showing around your waistline.
This is how protein guilt can sabotage your weight loss efforts, namely justifying overeating just to get more protein in your diet.
If you live in any modern industrialized society you most likely already eat enough protein without even thinking about it. What are good sources of protein? Meat, eggs, soy are a good place to start. If you don’t think you are getting sufficient protein, try a protein supplement rather than piling on extra food which piles on the calories.
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