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You want to lose fat while maintaining your muscle mass. Nutrimuscle explains how suitable food supplements can help you achieve your goals.
The goal of a successful cutting phase is to burn more fat while preserving your muscles. To achieve optimal muscle definition, there are 3 main levers at your disposal:
- Your diet
- Your physical activity
- Your supplementation
A Balanced Diet
Regarding your diet, if you are in a cutting phase, you must ensure a certain balance between macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, fats).
It is recommended to increase your protein intake during a cut, as they help eliminate fat by increasing metabolism. Proteins also have a thermogenic effect, meaning that by digesting them, they make us burn calories.
Generally, our diet is unbalanced; we eat too many omega-6s and not enough omega-3s. This does not mean that omega-6s should be eliminated, but rather that you should try to eat more foods rich in omega-3s (fatty fish, flaxseed oil, rapeseed oil...). You already know which fats to avoid (fast food, processed products, chips...).
Prioritize quality carbohydrates with a low glycemic index to properly regulate your insulin levels throughout the day.
Suitable Physical Activity
To optimize your cut, we recommend increasing the frequency of your exercises rather than reducing your caloric intake. This way, you will maintain the same strength during training and preserve your muscle integrity, which will help you burn more calories. We advise you to add "cardio" type exercises to your training program to burn calories and optimize the body's fat utilization.
Food Supplements for Cutting
There are several types of supplements to help you achieve your cutting goals and optimize your training results. Here is a guide to the supplements to prioritize for your cutting program.
Protein Powder
Protein powders are ideal for those who want to lose weight and fat. Indeed, they burn more calories than other foods (like carbohydrates), increase fat burning by raising metabolism, have a powerful appetite-suppressant effect, and preserve muscle integrity thanks to their amino acid content.
Micellar Casein Isolate: Micellar casein, the solid part of milk, is a protein that is slowly assimilated and digested. It provides muscles with amino acids over a long period, which allows you to maintain high anabolism. Thus, you will optimize your fat burning. We recommend taking casein isolate in the morning upon waking to restart your anabolism and to provide an appetite-suppressant effect until lunch.
Total proteins contain 80% micellar casein and 20% whey. This protein allows you to stimulate your anabolism thanks to the whey+casein synergy and thus optimize your muscle building while helping you in your weight loss.
Native Protimuscle Whey: As with total proteins, Native Protimuscle Whey combines the benefits of whey and casein in a single protein. The difference lies in the ratio, which is 50% whey to 50% casein for Native Protimuscle Whey. This versatile protein allows you to gain muscle mass while helping you lose excess pounds. Indeed, Native Protimuscle Whey increases your satiety level, which allows you to space out your meals more and eat less at the next meal.
Milk&Egg Bio protein combines total proteins and egg white protein. The diversity of protein sources (whey, casein, and egg) provides an expanded aminogram ideal for protecting your muscle mass. The appetite-suppressant effect of eggs plus the improved fat burning thanks to whey and casein make this protein a supplement of choice for a cutting diet.
Fat Burners or "Burners"
Fat burners are supplements that can help you accelerate fat burning and therefore represent an interesting option to achieve your cutting goals. There are several types, it's up to you to choose the one that seems most suitable.
Fat Burner: This supplement combines two lipotropic agents, choline and inositol. These two active substances bind to your fats to eliminate them in the liver. The fat burner allows both to optimize your cut and to improve your training performance, thanks to choline. You can take the fat burner during your meals and around your workouts.
Carnitine: This supplement can be presented as the "fat-burning amino acid". Carnitine increases the oxidation of your fats while boosting your energy metabolism. This supplement therefore helps you lose weight faster, recover better from training, and fight fatigue. We recommend taking carnitine before training and during meals.
Natural Bio Burner: This supplement is a blend of two plants: yerba mate and green tea. Thanks to the synergy between these two plants, natural bio burner allows you to increase your energy expenditure, better control your appetite, and accelerate the burning of your fats. In addition to these benefits, this supplement helps reduce fatigue associated with a hypocaloric diet. You can take natural bio burner upon waking and at noon. For some people, taking it in the evening allows for better sleep in addition to burning fat at night.
Natural Bio Booster: This supplement combines the benefits of green tea and guarana. In the presence of caffeine contained in guarana, the catechins of green tea are even more effective at burning fat. This supplement has the same benefits as the natural bio burner while providing a boosting effect. You can take the natural bio booster in the morning and at noon, and 2 hours before a workout.
Carbohydrates
During a cut, regulating your energy levels and protecting your digestive health are also success factors. Modulating your carbohydrate intake and prioritizing quality carbohydrates is important to achieve your goals.
Sweet Potato: Sweet potato powder is an excellent source of carbohydrates with a low glycemic index. The richness in fiber of sweet potato slows down the absorption of carbohydrates and thus provides the body with energy over a longer period. Sweet potato also has beneficial effects on the health of the intestinal flora.
Nutri-Fibers: These dietary fibers provide a source of carbohydrates with prolonged energy release as well as a very interesting appetite-suppressant effect for a cutting diet. They are very useful for those wanting low-caloric impact carbohydrates during training. Nutri-fibers also protect your intestinal flora.
Flakes (Oats, Buckwheat and Barley): Flakes have 3 major benefits. They are ideal sources of carbohydrates for normalizing your glucose and insulin levels, maintaining your digestive system health, and providing you with energy for your workouts. You can take them in the morning with casein isolate to provide a strong feeling of satiety. This also allows you to replace bad carbohydrates with quality carbohydrates.
