Your eating pace strongly dictates many things about how you feel and your overall weight. By eating slowly, it allows your “full” hormone (leptin) to monitor your food intake. It also increases the amount of satiation (fullness) you feel from your meals. Eating at a slower pace usually means you will chew your food better too—which increases your body’s ability to digest and absorb nutrients essential to building lean muscle AND burning fat and it allows you to stop eatin

When we workout or exercise we breakdown muscle which is good! We need to breakdown muscle so that we can build them stronger. HOWEVER……. If the rate of synthesis exceeds the rate of breakdown, you gain muscle. When the rate of breakdown exceeds the rate of synthesis, you lose muscle. When you workout or exercise you break down a lot of muscle! A few weeks ago we talked about getting 1 gram of protein per pound of lean mass which is very important. Last week we talked ab