Fat Burning Diets

When you’re choosing and reviewing potential fat burning diets make sure you find one that has shown to consistently produce results.  Food won’t actually burn fat, but there are foods that make it harder for your body to break them down causing more calories to be burned to extract the macro nutrients.  You also shouldn’t have to break the bank to make your diet work for you.

Always try to fit calcium into your fat burning diet.  There are great sources of calcium other than dairy such as spinach, kale, oranges (yup!), beans, and salmon.  Three servings of calcium a day has been shown to increase fat loss rate. Dairy is one of the best sources of calcium, but it’s nice to know you don’t have to eat yogurt every single day.

You should also consider adding the spices cinnamon and garlic to your meals everyday.  My favorite vectors for cinnamon consumption are sprinkling it on my toast with natural peanut butter or right into a cup of coffee. Garlic can be added to eggs at breakfast and stiry fry at dinner.

Health Benefits of Cinamon

• Lowers LDL (BAD) Cholesterol
• Helps regulate blood sugar
• Has anti-clotting effect on blood
• Natural anti-inflammatory
• Can be used on food as a natural preservative
• Some studies have found just by smelling it, it can increase congnitive ability

You can’t expect your fat burning diet to be effective without regular exercise.  If the amount of calories eat is greater than the amount your body uses, then the extra calories will get stored as body fat.  Just because you are eating better quality food doesn’t guarantee fat burning.  You still need to control your calories as part of your fat burning diet.

Some foods will actually increase your metabolism and help your burn fat.  Good fat burning diets will tell what exactly to eat to maximally increase your metabolism to burn body fat.  Once you start seeing results with your new diet, it will not longer be a diet, it will be just the way you eat and part of your every day lifestyle.

Long term weight loss and body composition change requires a healthy lifestyle adaptation.  A quality fat burning diet such as Tom Venuto’s “Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle” which I highly reccomend, relays this information.  Please click the green “Find Out More” button on the right if you want a diet that encourages permanent, healthy changes to your lifestyle.  It follows a sensible approach to burning fat by decreasing food intake and perscribing an exercise program that fits with your current conditioning.

Consistent exercise and eating the right foods are the keys to the modern day fountain of youth.  Exercise slows down the aging process, keeps your bones strong, keeps your skin healthy, wards off disease, keeps your heart and lungs working effectivley, and give you a sense of well-being amongst countless other benefits.  Exercise and a great diet combined will lower your blood pressure and increase your insulin sensitivity.  Oh, if you have trouble sleeping exercise can fix that too.

if you’re a beginner to exercise don’t come out of the gate 100%.  You need to gradually increase your exercise volume and intensity.  If you do too much too early you will be very sore and most likely discouraged to sart again. Stick with three sessions a week when your first start, and then gradually increase depending on how you feel.

Short term diets can give you the quick results you want if you need to get toned up quickly before a competition or just want to shed some pounds before your next vacation.  If you want lasting body composition and body fat change then you will have to change your lifestyle with a quality fat burning diet.

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Here is an easy to follow 7 day diet plan for someone looking to shed fat and build muscle.  Keep in mind this diet isn’t a one size fits all solution.  You will need to taylor it to your individual caloric needs.  It’s very possible to realize the body of your dreams if you make a plan and implement that plan.  In order to have success you must plan for it.  

It makes things a heck of a lot easier during the work week if you batch prepare all of your food for the week.  Partition out your food for each meal into plastic or glass containers for all the days of the week.  When you leave for work that morning just take the 4-5 containers you need for the day and throw them in a cooler to take to work with you.  If you don’t have access to a microwave then just eat it cold.  

This is a one day sample for a 7 day diet plan:

Meal 1  - Immediatley after waking

• protein shake (2 scoops of whey and 12oz water mixed)
• 1 cup oatmeal 
• 1 orange

Meal 2 – 2 hours later 

• 1 serving grilled chicken 
• 2 cup Steamed Spinach 
• 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil drizzled over cooked spinach

Meal 3 – 2 hours later 

• 1 can of tuna packed in water 
• 2 cups steamed broccoli 
• 12 almonds 

Meal 4 - 2 hours later 

• 1 tbsp of natural no sugar added peanut butter
• 1 bannana

Meal 5 - 2 hours later 

• 12 oz Salmon
• 1 cup Brown Rice 
• 2 cup Chopped Zucchini 

Meal 6 - 2 hours later 

• 6oz chicken 
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
• 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup rice

When you start eating more protein and replace low fiber or refined carbohydrates with vegetables, fruits, nuts and healthy fats you will see a rapid body transformation.  You will have more energy, burn more fat, and experience a more restful sleep, and best of all naturally!