The High Protein Diet

Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by Laura in Diet Advice, Fad Diets

If you’re looking for a fast way to shed some excess weight, the protein diet should be one that you consider.  With so many different diet plans around right now, it can be hard to ‘navigate’ through the waters and learn which are going to help you see weight loss success and which are just going to hinder you.

Fortunately, if you learn the pros and cons of various approaches, it becomes much clearer which is right for you.

Let’s have a closer look into the high protein diet so that you can see what this one has to offer.

What The High Protein Diet Is

The high protein diet is a diet plan that bases more of your consumption of protein rich foods that most other diet plans do.  With the average, ‘standard’ diet, you’ll likely be taking in anywhere from 15-30% of your total calorie intake from protein rich foods.

While on a higher calorie diet, this may be enough to satisfy your daily protein requirements, when you happen to be on a low calorie diet, very often it’s going to cause you to fall short.

The high protein diet aims to fix this. On a high protein diet as much as 50-75% of your total calorie intake may come from protein, with the remaining calories typically coming from vegetables and healthy fats.  Fruit may or may not be added in using small quantities.

Keep in mind that while 75% may seem very high, if you’re taking in very few calories, the sheer amount of protein may not be that great.

For someone on a low 1000 calorie diet plan, this would only equate out to about 187 grams of protein total, which is about how much a 180 pound person would need anyway at minimum.

How The High Protein Diet Helps You Lose Weight

The high protein diet is going to help you lose weight for a number of reasons.  First, being that it is so high in protein, it will automatically cause your metabolic rate to increase.  Protein requires a higher amount of energy just to digest and break down, so by boosting your intake, you’ll help to burn more total calories each day.

If you pair your high protein diet with a fat burner such as Phen375, which will further help to boost your resting metabolic rate, you’ll really be seeing some serious progress taking place.

Furthermore, the high protein diet will also calm your hunger very well as protein is the most appetite suppressing nutrient you can use.

Making The High Protein Diet Work For You

So if you’ve decided that you want to use the high protein diet, how do you customize it so it’s right for you?

First, make absolutely sure that you are taking in enough vegetables while on the plan. That’s the biggest error that people make and would seriously harm their progress.  Load up on vegetable as they’re so low in calories they hardly need to be counted.

Second, make sure that you’re also drinking enough water.  Higher protein intakes tend to be dehydrating so you need to be sure you’re consuming enough fluid.

If you keep both of these things in mind, then you should definitely notice positive results from the high protein diet.

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