People say all the time that “you are what you eat” and “abs are made in the kitchen. “The reason you hear these phrases so much is because they are completely true.
Weight loss is about 25% exercise, 5% mindset, and 70% diet! Once you have the proper fat burning diet, losing weight will be nothing too difficult.
It’s all about learning how your own body functions, and which foods best help you lose weight and which ones help you put on weight.
Ill start off by listing foods that are excellent fat burners and then l’ll put together a sample fat burning diet for you.
Fat burning Foods
Apples – “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away” goes the old saying. Well that’s not all apples do, they also help burn fat. Apples raise our blood sugar levels safely and slowly, and help prevent spikes in sugar levels by keeping it stable.
This is good because your body does not have to release insulin to battle an unstable blood sugar level. Insulin is your enemy when it comes to a fat burning diet. Another benefit you get from having sustained blood sugar levels is that you stay full a lot longer.
Apples are also and excellent source of soluble fiber. Soluble fiber helps prevent hunger pangs and cravings. There is no saturated fat, cholesterol or sodium in an apple and by eating them you will lower your blood pressure as well as cholesterol.
Coffee – Well all know who potentially dangerous too much coffee can be, so it goes without saying that it needs to be taken in moderation.
This is a double – edged sword, you use it the right way and you can burn a lot of fat, but if you use it wrongly, you run the risk of suffering from anxiety and insomnia.
But enough of the bad stuff, let’s talk about why coffee is good for you. The caffeine you get from coffee speeds up your metabolism and helps you burn fat faster.
Studies also show that you can burn up to 10% extra fat with coffee, so be sure to give it a try.
Again, drink coffee in moderation. One cup in the morning and one in the afternoon or evening (as long as it does not prevent you from sleeping) is fine.
Sugar only makes you fatter and adds useless empty calories, try to drink your coffee without any sugar, add some skim milk to eat and drink it that way.
Grapefruit – Grape fruit helps dissolve fat and cholesterol, making it way easier to burn fat. Just one grapefruit carries only 74 calories but packs a punch with 15 grams of pectin (a really cool fiber that has been linked to lowering cholesterol levels and burning fat).
It also carries a ton of vitamin C and potassium and it gets even better, there is no fat or sodium.
Just when you thought the fat burning was done, grapefruit is also rich in galacturonic acid, another fat fighter. Keep away hardening of the arteries and heart disease by eating grapefruits.
Sugar will only spoil the greatness of the grapefruit by adding like I said earlier, empty calories. Try a sprinkle of cinnamon instead of sugar on your grapefruit to take care of that bitter taste.
Mustard – You really want to burn fat off like the best of them, you have to pay the price. The best mustard to burn fat is the hot and spicy kind you get in oriental shops. Spicy mustard has been shown to also speed up the metabolism just like how caffeine does.
Mustard is way safer that coffee though, and if you use it everyday, you can burn and extra 45 calories for every 700 you consume and speed up your metabolism by 20-25%.45 Calories may not seem like a lot to you, but trust me, it adds up.
Soups – Soup is good for you! Maybe not the canned variety from the store – but old-fashioned, homemade soup promotes weight loss.
A study by Dr. John Foreyt of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, found that dieters who ate a bowl of soup before lunch and dinner lost more weight than dieters who didn’t.
In fact, the more soup they ate, the more weight they lost. And soup eaters tend to keep the weight off longer. Naturally, the type of soup you eat makes a difference.
Cream soups or those made of beef or pork are not your best bets. But here’s a great recipe: Slice three large onions, three carrots, four stalks of celery, one zucchini and one yellow squash. Place in a kettle.
Add three cans crushed tomatoes, two packets low-sodium chicken bouillon, three cans water and one cup white wine (optional). Add tarragon, basil, oregano, thyme and garlic powder. Boil, and then simmer for an hour. Serves six.
Spinach – Popeye really knew what he was talking about, according to Dr. Richard Shekelle, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas. Spinach has the ability to lower cholesterol, rev up the metabolism and burn away fat. Rich in iron, beta-carotene and vitamins C and E, it supplies most of the nutrients you need.
Tofu – You just can’t say enough about this health food from Asia. Also called soybean curd, it’s basically tasteless, so any spice or flavoring you add blends with it nicely. A 2½ ” square has 86 calories and nine grams of protein
(Experts suggest an intake of about 40 grams per day.)Tofu contains calcium and iron, almost no sodium and not a bit of saturated fat.
It makes your metabolism run on high and even lowers cholesterol. With different varieties available, the firmer tofus are goof for stir-frying or adding to soups and sauces while the softer ones are good for mashing, chopping and adding to salads.
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