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Are You Making These Fat Loss Mistakes? | JJ Virgin | #Shorts | Nutrition, Diet & Weight Loss

1 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by JJ Virgin listing common fat-loss mistakes and quick corrective actions: avoid chronically low calories and instead vary calories/macros; stop frequent snacking to allow blood sugar/insulin to return to fasting levels; reduce excessive cardio to preserve muscle; watch for deceptively unhealthy "healthy" foods; and manage stress to avoid cortisol-driven fat storage and sugar cravings. The speaker urges doing the opposite of these mistakes to speed fat loss.

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Want to lose fat. Do not make these mistakes. First of all, chronically lowering your calories. Heard it, you know it's true. It's going to chronically lower your metabolism. So cross train your diet and vary your calories and your macros. Next up, stop the snacking. Every time you snack, you raise blood sugar and you raise insulin. You eat all day long, you never give your blood sugar time to come back to fasting levels. You never give your insulin time to come back either. You know what that means? Your doors to your fat cells are locked and you cannot burn off stored fat for fuel. Next up, off the treadmill. Too much cardio can burn up your muscle. You want muscle on your body because that's your metabolic span. Next up, don't let the high five foods sneak in. And quite often some of the foods you think are healthy are actually hurting you. Finally, don't stress out about all of this. Stress can raise cortisol and raise blood sugar and make you store fat and crave more sugar. So basically, all the things I didn't, I told you not to do, do the opposite and it's going to help you lose fat fast.