🎄How to remain lean during the festive season?🎄
Christmas is when we tend to have a lot of delicious sweet treats, and I’m no exception to that rule. I’ve definitely put on body fat. But here's how I still stay relatively lean with minimal effort that you can try too:
1. Eat the meat first.
Meat produces more leptin signals (fullness signal) to our brains, which tells us we are full. Thus, the sooner we have this signal being sent to the brain, the fuller we feel and the lesser we want to eat!
During MCO earlier this year, I ate plenty of meat (1 whole lamb leg, 1 whole chicken, 1 whole duck, up to 800g of grass-fed ribeye, etc). My daily calorie consumption definitely exceeded my normal intake but here’s the thing; it’s hard to gain fat, especially when you’re consuming a lot of meat.
Just make sure to eat leaner meat, which means more protein by the way. Try not to eat the fat part too much like the skin, but having some for the flavour and taste is 👌.
2. Don’t eat for the sake of eating.
Only eat when you’re hungry, especially during days where you know you will be having a feast or celebration. It’s okay to skip a meal if you don’t feel like eating. Just remember the 1st thing you put into your mouth first should be a protein with some quality oil or fats (E.g. unrefined cold press coconut oil, palm kernel oil) to lower the insulin spike and to trigger leptin production to signal you’re full. That way, you won’t overindulge in other non-value-added food to your body.
What other rules do you follow to maintain your body?
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