How Eating Protein Helps Lower Your Setpoint Weight
Are You Eating Enough Protein To Lower Your Setpoint Weight?
I don’t know of a single person who hasn’t tried to lose weight, even if it’s just a few pounds. For most people, that’s easy to do. But easy goes out the window when your goal is to lose more than just a few. Why is losing the first few pounds easy? Why does your body reach a point where it seems impossible to lose any more weight?
Those are great questions and easy to answer. Especially when you pay attention to how much protein you are eating. First, when you begin giving attention to what you’re eating, it’s easy to decide if you should eat a salad or a piece of blueberry cheesecake, or protein. Obviously, you’re going to choose the salad, with chicken because you think it’s the better option.
But, after a while, the weight stops dropping, you’ve hit a plateau and you become frustrated. You’re still making, what you believe, are healthy choices when it comes to preparing meals. So, what happened?
Your Setpoint Weight Is Responsible For Your Inability to Lose Weight
Your current setpoint weight is the reason you hit that plateau. Basically, your body is telling you that it’s lost all the weight it’s comfortable dropping and is refusing to lose anymore. But you don’t need to give up, you haven’t lost the battle. Think of your plateau as a ‘diet time-out’, while you plan a different strategy.
It’s more than possible to lower your setpoint weight, but low calorie dieting isn’t the answer. Decreasing the number of calories you consume each day will only leave you feeling rundown, possibly harming your health, in the long run. Yoyo dieting isn’t the solution either, if anything, losing and gaining weight repeatedly only results in a higher setpoint weight.
So, what can you do to lower your setpoint weight? I suggest getting started on a protein-rich diet!
Why Protein Is Necessary To Lower Your Setpoint Weight
Everything you eat affects your body’s setpoint weight so you need to start eating smart. Adding more protein to your diet is one of the SANEst ways to begin. Protein benefits your body in a number of ways while keeping you feeling fuller longer. Simply put, when you feel full, you don’t eat because your body is satisfied.
A few SANE protein tips:
- Recommended amount of protein: 125 grams for small stature women and 200 grams for large stature men. This is daily, not per meal.
- High quality animal protein is extremely healthy, but vegetarian sources of protein are also beneficial for a SANE lifestyle.
- Organic foods are healthy but organic protein isn’t a ‘must have’. Clean Whey Protein or Clean Pea Protein are 2 great options.
- Foods containing more proteins than carbohydrates or fat, are best for a SANE lifestyle.
- A diet rich in protein helps to decrease your cravings for sweets.
Take That First Step Towards Lowering Your Setpoint Weight
Taking steps each day will bring you that much closer to your goal of lowering your setpoint weight. Consistency is necessary for achieving your goal of lowering your setpoint weight. For some people, support can be invaluable when it comes to staying on track. SANE helps with all of this, and more, by believing in you!
I know how hard it can be to take that first step towards lowering your setpoint weight, but we’ve made it easy for you to get started. Here’s a short questionnaire, Your Setpoint Risk Score, that will help us to help you get started…Click here if you want to take your first step.
