August 21, 2009
Save Money With These 2 Cheap Foods That Burn Fat
There are a number of foods that burn fat that are easy to add to your diet.
Improve your weight loss and your good health by incorporating these foods in your every meal.
Legend:
What They Do: This tells you some of the most important benefits for you and your body.
Nutrition: This refers to the main nutrients that will maximize your weight loss.
Friends: This tells you about alternatives to the food.
Impostors: This tells you which foods you cannot use as replacements.
Almonds, Walnuts
Nuts are basically high in protein and monounsaturated fat ( also known as good fats).
Almonds and walnuts are the royalty of nuts.
Nuts are low in calorie, because 5-15% of their calories are not absorbed by the body.
Some factors that will influence your digestion are the skin of the nut and how well you chew them.
You must take into consideration the unhurried release of calories make you feel full longer.
What They Do: Build muscle. Aside from having protein, almonds have sufficient amount of magnesium, which is necessary in building muscle.Fight cravings by eating 24 almonds for a snack or before a meal, then drink 8 ounces of water to suppress your appetite.
The water will cause the fiber of the nuts to expand in your stomach, making you feel fuller.
Nutrition: fiber, potassium, vitamin E, fiber magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, iron.
Friends: pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, avocados.
Impostors: smoked nuts, peanuts, salted nuts.
How to introduce into your diet:
Put some chopped nuts to your oatmeal.
Add chopped nuts to your cereal or yogurt.
Put some chopped nuts to your ice cream.
Another one of the foods that burn fat are beans. These are a great replacement for carbohydrates. Beans, beans are good for your heart… just like the song says. They also provide protection against cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, and obesity.
The most nutritious bean is the black bean.
On a side note, Qdoba and Chipotle both serve black beans, which have been shown to have the most antioxidants, on their burritos.
Beans, in general, are so balanced with protein and fat that you can replace a meat dish with a bean dish without worrying about the saturated fat.
What They Do: build muscle, help to burn fat, regulate digestion.
Nutrition: fiber, protein, iron, folate, bioflavanoids.
Friends: lentils, bean dips, hummus, edamame.
Impostors: refried beans that are high in saturated fats, baked beans that are high in sugar.
The Best Beans: soy, pinto, garbanzo, navy, black, white, kidney, lima, red
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June 12, 2009
Get Rid Of Belly Fat By This Simple Change…
The best way to get rid of belly fat is to eat frequent meals.People who eat often are called grazers. People who eat 3 or less meals a day are referred to as gorgers.A standard rule among the majority of diet plans is to “graze”. In otherwords, eat five to six small meals/snacks a day.
There are three reasons why eating 5-6 times a day is so important:
1. We are eating how our ancestors ate, which means we are agreeing with out genetic makeup.Being foragers/hunters, we were forced to eat frequently and not 3 square calorie filled meals.Our ancestors food supply was full of nutrient without being packed to the brim with calories.
2. Your body turns into a fat burning machine because your metabolism is constantly running to break down the food. (Grazing raises your metabolism and a higher metabolism means you can lose fat naturally) Your digestive system cannot handle large amounts of food and causes loss of energy and fat storage.
3. Grazing suppresses your appetite. This helps you to avoid the intense hunger signals you get from being on a “diet”.
The second part of this rule is to always stay full. If your hunger signals reach a high enough level, it will be impossible for you to make wise food choices. The most satisfying and most often available are those heavily refined, fast or fried foods full of bad fats and lots of carbs.
Due to the fact that our lives are filled with very high stress situations, we tend to crave fats and sugars so that we can make more stress hormones out of them. In “fight or flight” mode, our bodies are better able to deal with stressful situations.
Fats and sugars provide the necessary building blocks for your body to produce stress hormones such as adrenaline.
The bad news is that if your body stays in “fight or flight” mode, then it will literally start to break down. Our bodies were not meant to sustain long periods of stress.
If you are looking for a permanent way to lose fat naturally, then start eating 5-6 smaller meals per day and watch your figure change.
Putting this rule into practice will ensure that you can build a foundation for you and your family for future success in weight loss.
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