He gives us a nice interview coach nutritional Angela Quintas. You just published a very practical book Lose weight forever recipes (Planet), After the success of his previous Lose weight forever (Planet), has already become a publishing success. Graduate in Chemical Sciences and master in Dietetics and Human Nutrition, For more than fifteen years he has been working and directing his own nutrition practice, which he combines with teaching at the UNED.. Direct Ok, a weekly program on nutrition on Cadenaser.com, and collaborates in programs such as: to live, that's two days, on the SER Chain. His articles can be read in the magazine “Good life” of The country, Wellbeing Objective, etc. She has also been a nutritional advisor in highly successful films under the direction of directors such as Daniel Sánchez Arévalo., Pedro Almodóvar or Alberto Rodríguez, among others.
It seems that talking about losing weight goes hand in hand with eliminating fat from our diet., but we read in this book that fats are not as bad as they seem.
Of course, The problem is that you do not have to eliminate fats but rather you have to use fats that are healthy. There are some vitamins called fat-soluble vitamins that need fat to be absorbed.. If you eliminate fats, you will have a deficiency of these vitamins. It is not about eliminating fat but rather ensuring that your fat consumption is mostly healthy fats..
One of the strong points of this method is the importance of proteins.
What protein gives me are amino acids, and within the amino acids there are two groups: the essential and the non-essential. I can make the non-essential ones., that is to say, Human beings have metabolic pathways to be able to manufacture them.. But I have to get the essentials from food no matter what.. So, If I do not consume enough protein I will be deficient in these amino acids.. I give you an example, tryptophan; Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that my body cannot make., From tryptophan, a neurotransmitter called serotonin is built, which is the hormone of happiness., of pleasure, and from this serotonin, melatonin is built, which is what makes you sleep deeply.. So, Look: I don't consume protein, I don't have tryptophan, I don't have serotonin, I don't have melatonin...
The concept of basal metabolism, related to these, also seems substantial, do you tell us?
Basal metabolism is the energy you expend to maintain your vital signs.. That is to say, let your heart beat, let your lungs breathe..., and it depends directly on your muscle mass. Your total spending at the end of the day is: mostly your muscle mass, Then it is the energy that you spend on a physical and intellectual level and then the energy that you spend on digesting food.. If you follow a diet in which you mainly lose muscle mass, your basal metabolism will lower and in the end you will have fewer kilocalories to distribute throughout the day..
Another interesting concept that is introduced is eating every three or four hours., this is, eat many times but little each time.
This has two reasons, The first is that yes, For example, I eat at two and have dinner at ten, I don't know about you, But when I get home at nine I start snacking and in the end I'm missing how important dinner was.. That is a reason that is very important to me.. If you make a snack then you won't want to eat so much. and the second, It is because when too much time passes between one intake and another, you run the risk of starting to use your muscle mass, It will lower your basal metabolism and in the end you will have less energy.
In line with all of the above, We see that this method advocates a clear idea and that is that you should not go hungry while on a diet..
No. And for two reasons too. The first is because if you go hungry you are not going to stay hungry over time., it's like you say: vale, I endure, how much, a week, two weeks?… In the third week you are going to eat, it doesn't make sense. And the second is that if you are hungry that can be an indication that you are using your muscle mass., mal; that will lower your basal metabolism and as a consequence everything that I have explained before. GINÉS J. VERA
