Why You Should “Just Say
No”
To Diets To Burn Fat (Part
2)
By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss &
Fitness Expert & Creator of 'Fat
Burning Furnace'
In
part one of this article, I talked about how
avoiding diets is one of the best things you
can do for your long term health and fitness
success, especially if you want to burn
fat. In this second part, I’ll show
you how you can start to transition from
your current lifestyle to one that creates a
lean, strong body and lasting
health.
From a
nutritional standpoint, you need a healthy
balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
in your diet to keep your metabolism firing
on all cylinders, constantly burning
fat. Fad diets have a coolness factor
to them that sometimes makes them
irresistible at first. But in the long
run I’ve found it best to go back to the
basics of what your body craves. Let’s talk
about that…
Complex
Carbs (whole grains, breads, cereals, etc.)
are vital to maintaining your energy
throughout the day and do a host of other
things within your body including keeping
you feeling full. I’ll also lump
fruits in with complex carbs, because of
their high fiber content and slow absorption
into the blood stream, keeping our insulin
level in check, which is important for less
fat storage and a higher chance of burning
stored fat.
Simple
Carbs, or sugars (candy, soda pop, white
processed baked goods, etc) are to be
avoided and kept to a minimum for the most
part. They provide little nutritional
value to you and are what I often refer to
as empty calories. They just add calories to
your body with little or no nutritional
value that are going to end up in your fat
stores if you’re not careful with how much
you ingest.
Forget
about maximum fat burning here. Of
course, many people are aware of the blood
sugar and insulin connection with eating too
many simple carbs. Our insulin
regulates are blood sugar level and takes
any excess sugars and stores them as
fat. We then are stuck getting tired
and hungry, making repeating this cycle far
too easy. The best way to avoid this,
I’ve found, is eating a sensible amounts of
complex carbohydrates instead.
Proteins
(lean meats, fish, poultry, soy, beans and
legumes, etc.) are important to maintain the
cellular structures in your body and provide
the building blocks for the lean muscle
you’re after, which is vital if you want to
burn fat fast. But with anything else,
don’t go overboard with protein. Some
fitness experts claim that you’ll need a
minimum 1 gram of protein per pound of
bodyweight each day.
There
is no real proof that this is the case, and
ingesting more protein than your body needs
ends up going to your fat stores…plus it
doesn’t do your kidneys or liver any good
either. I’ve found that keeping
protein to around 0.5 grams per pound of
bodyweight each day more than sufficient in
feeding the lean muscle growth that my Fat
Burning Furnace students stimulate with
their properly performed resistance
exercise.
Another
important aspect of protein involves whether
or not you’re getting your protein from
animal or plant based sources. While
the traditional American diet recommends
most animal based proteins, recent data
suggests that too heavy a reliance on animal
proteins increases risks for
disease.
On top
of that, animal proteins contain almost no
fiber, which doesn’t go very far in keeping
you feeling full, and negatively effects
your ability to burn fat. When
choosing your protein sources, make sure you
eat a good portion of your protein from
plant sources (soy, beans, legumes,
etc.). You don’t have to be a
vegetarian, but I recommend keeping your
animal proteins on the low side.
Fats
(found in many proteins, nuts, oils, etc.)
are essential to maintain certain bodily
processes like hair, nail, and skin
regeneration. There is a lot of
confusion with fats out there, some
recommending extremely low fat diets and
others even recommending a very high fat
diet. If you are focusing on lean
protein choices in your meals, and including
small amounts of healthy oils, nuts, and
seeds in your diet, your fat intake will be
in order.
So how
much of each of these macro nutrients should
you be eating to maximize fat burning and
get that lean fit body you’re after?
It’s easy to get caught up in the
percentages and counting calories, but the
easiest way I’ve found is to count portions
instead of calories.
An
easy way to ensure that this happens is to
make sure you eat both a portion or two of
complex carbs and a portion of protein at
each meal. Add as many green
veggies as you can eat, as they’re super low
in calories and provide more fiber, enzymes
that aid in digestion, and vitamins and
minerals that will be more than adequate for
most people. Remember, focus on
nutrient rich foods and you’ll find that
burning fat and getting healthy will seem
like a natural.
How
many times per day should we be eating to
burn the most fat? I can tell you that
three meals a day is not going to cut it
when trying to burn fat fast and get lean,
at least not in my experience. In
fact, if you wanted to get as fat as
possible, you should eat all of your daily
calories in one meal.
Eating
smaller more frequent meals throughout the
day is the fastest way to fat loss. It
fires up your metabolism, as every time you
eat something, the metabolism kicks it up a
notch. Try and eat 5-6 smaller meals
per day, spaced about 3 hours
apart.
Now, I
know many people don’t want to be taken out
of their breakfast, lunch, and dinner
routine…so you can still eat at those
traditional meal times, but try cutting back
a bit on how much food you eat at those
meals and add those calories into 2 or 3
snack meals in between. A snack meal
could be a protein/energy bar or maybe even
a piece of fruit and a slice of whole grain
bread.
So you
see, eating for a lean, strong, and healthy
body isn’t so difficult…and it doesn’t
require you to eliminate essential foods
like complex carbohydrates from your
diet. In fact, doing so will put you
into the cycle of confusion of fad diets
that is all too prevalent in fitness
today.
And
that’s a cycle that’s tough to break out
of. Focus on foods your body craves
naturally instead, and the rest of the
details will be easy to implement into your
lifestyle. Before long you'll start to
burn fat faster than you might have thought
possible.
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