Metabolic Typing

Metabolic typing is a form of weight loss in which you will classify your body type into one of three categories. These categories are protein, carbohydrate and mixed. After you have classified your body type as being one of these types, it will be easy for you to determine your dietary needs. When your specific dietary needs are met, then you will be able to provide yourself a healthful diet that will keep you satisfied.

Everyone has their own specific caloric needs. These needs are determined by genetics, family history and the environment in which you live. These factors also determine what your metabolic typing is.

Metabolic typing explains why some foods cause some people to be energetic and healthy, yet when you eat them they cause you to be tired and you end up becoming bloated and gain even more weight.

When you learn your metabolic type, you will know what foods your metabolism is designed to use as fuel. Knowing the foods your body uses most efficiently will enable you to feed yourself in a manner that will provide you all the nutrition you need without being hungry.

Protein Type

Protein types like fatty foods such as sausage, ribs, roasted nuts and fatty fish such as salmon or tuna. If you love to eat, then you are most likely a protein type. Often you are not satisfied after a small snack, you may even still feel hungry after a large meal. After having eaten an excess of carbohydrates you crave sugar. Then you find, once you start to eat these sugary foods you find it difficult to stop eating them. The sugar will cause you to feel jittery and your energy levels will rapidly fall.

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Protein types that try calorie reducing diet plans tend to feel miserable and typically fail in their efforts. A protein type cannot expect to lose weight by drastically cutting calories. A protein type will notice extreme energy problems. When feeling anxious, eating will often make them feel better, however, they will soon feel nervous again. This energy roller coaster are symptoms that the wrong foods are being eaten for that body type.

Protein types require a diet that is high in fats and proteins, while containing lesser amounts of carbohydrates. The key here is to provide balance, not totally restrict carbohydrates from the diet. Protein types still require the nutrients found in fruits, vegetables and grains, they just need to be obtained in the proper ratio.

Carbohydrate Types

If you are happy with smaller amounts of food, you are probably a carbohydrate type. Carb types generally do not give food much thought until they are hungry. Often, a carb type eats less often because they lack the time to eat. They will often skip meals to finish what they need to do in any given day. They may even go for long periods without eating, which will cause the body to go into starvation mode. When this happens, your basal metabolic rate will plummet, increasing weight management problems and obesity.

A carb type needs a diet that contains more carbohydrates than proteins or fats. Low fat proteins such as white meat chicken and whitefish are excellent choices for the protein needs of the carb type.

Mixed Type

A mixed type needs an equal balance of carbohydrates, proteins and healthy fats. Variety is necessary in the everyday meal plan for the mixed type. The mixed type is actually the easiest to manage due to the fact the food choices are greater than for either of the other two types. Some meals may appear to be for protein types, while others seem to be for cab types. While other meals will include foods from both body type menus.


Mixed types tend to have a varied appetite. They may feel starved at meal times, yet have no appetite at other times. These responses, however, are a direct relation to the foods that have been eaten. While a mixed type generally will not suffer from cravings, if they eat too much sugar or other carbohydrates they may still develop strong sugar cravings.

A mixed type does best when high fat and low fat proteins are eaten as well as high starch and low starch carbohydrates. Although, some mixed types tend to lean more towards a protein mixed type while others are a more carbohydrate mixed type.