Your Six Pack Abs Need Protein

What is protein, and how important is it in building up your Six Pack Abs?  Without protein, or enough of it, your entire weight loss diet program will be a flop.  Protein is used by your body to repair, build, and maintain muscle tissue.

Protein is made up of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon.  One unique aspect of protein is that it also is made up of nitrogen, which none of the other nutrients contain.  Protein is the only nutrient that contains nitrogen, so it's very important to include this in your every meal. 

When you hear the term positive nitrogen balance, it refers to your muscles as being in an anabolic state, or being able to build muscle.  The term catabolic state, refers to the action of losing muscle, which of course, we want to avoid in your Abs Work Out program.

Your body is only able to make use of protein for building your Abs Of Steel if all the amino acids are available.  The body itself can produce some of these amino acids, but the others, called essential amino acids, must be obtained only from the foods you include in your diet program. 

Here are some foods to include in your healthy weight loss plan that provides all the amino acids necessary to produce usuable protein.  These foods are fish and meat, eggs and dairy products, especially cottage cheese, and most vegetables.  Even though these foods contain a certain amount of protein, your body still is only able to make use of a lesser percentage of this protein. 

Eggs are still by far the very best form of protein to include in your weight loss program.  Some people believe they should separate the egg yoke out, and only eat the egg white, because there is some fat in the yoke.  I would refrain from this practice because the yoke actually contains as much protein as the egg white, as well as all the vitamins and minerals.  If you think you should be limiting the fat in your diet, you should do so by eliminating other fat foods, and not by throwing away the egg yoke, which is the best part of the egg.

Getting enough protein from food without consuming too much fat is often a big problem.  If you are still concerned about eating food that has proper protein in them, but that same food choice also has a lot of fat in it, you could consider using protein supplements. 

The great exercise and diet program the I personally follow and recommend, called the Truth About Six Pack Abs, also teaches us all the proper strategies to use to obtain the correct protein and nutrient balance.

In my next blog post, I'll discuss the use of protein supplements in your diet programs.  I'll teach you the proper use of them, and how to include them in a healthy strategy in your weight loss program.