Dietary Seminar 1
So last night I went to the dietary seminar in the gym. We got told straight away that the lecture would only be for maximum half an hour because of a time mix up. We were told it started at 7 pm while in fact it should have started at 6 pm. The dietitian had another appointment and 7.45 pm so it got cut short. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed with that.
The lecture itself was very interesting. In the first 10 minutes it was kind of repeating what’s already been written in our manual. Later on he talked a bit about other stuff and one thing in particular was very interesting. Stress can make you fat!
I won’t go into details because I can’t explain it as well as the dietitian, but basically it has to do with fight-flight response of your body and the release of sugar in your blood that will be stored as fat. If your stress levels are high you have to train in a different way to prevent storing fat. I was really surprised about what he said, but it makes a lot of sense.
He also said talked about diets and why it is important to eat your carbs before and after your work out. It is important that while you are losing weight, that you burn fat and not muscle. By cutting out your carbs completely you will not lose fat, but muscles. The more muscles you have the better, because if you have more muscles you will burn more calories during the day even if you are in rest.
At the end of the half hour people asked some quick questions about the meal plan and that was it. Very short lecture indeed. Can’t wait for the next one!
