I’m talking about up to 30% more calories from certain foods. It works like this: Nutrient-dense foods tend to be more complex. Take proteins, for instance. It takes more energy for your body to digest and use protein than it does for simpler foods like sugars. The effect of eating protein is the highest of all foods. What I mean is after eating protein, your metabolic rate will increase by approximately 30 percent. In other words, if you eat 100 calories of protein, 30 of those will be burned just by digesting and using the protein. By comparison, carbohydrates are typically around 10 percent, and fat is just 5 percent.
Proteins are primarily used as our body’s— building blocks. They are most abundant in animal products—lean meats, egg whites, and low-fat cottage cheese are great protein sources. (Protein is also found, to a lesser degree, in beans, nuts, and various grains for you vegetarians out there.) Proteins are found in every cell in our bodies. Our muscles, hair, skin, nails, hormones, and blood all contain protein. And protein is extremely important both to our overall immunity and health.
Protein is also an extremely important (but often overlooked) fat-loss nutrient. Why? Proteins (along with resistance exercise) actually help your body change shape by adding muscle and increasing your metabolism. Remember, the point isn’t just to lose weight. The point is to lose fat, and increase muscle. And why you might ask, it’s your muscle mass that controls your metabolic rate. The rate you burn fat and digest your food. The higher percentage of muscle mass the higher your metabolic rate.
With all this in mind, please be sure to choose grass-fed beef, cage-free chicken meat and eggs, and other organic meats whenever possible to avoid hormones and other unnatural additives. Another good reason to be careful when eating out.
With that said, you don’t have to limit your diet to just protein in order to burn belly fat fast. Just don’t eat things that add to your belly fat. Do some research, those people who lose the weight and keep it off, work hard at it. Read anything you can. You can lose weight naturally, with no pills or special meals. No extreme workouts or starvation diets. Be active and live healthily, avoid eating snacks or drinking soda or energy drinks and be careful of juice drinks, they can be loaded with sugar. Stick to the basics. You don’t have to starve to lose weight. Just eat better.
Another thing you need to do if you want to lose weight is to count those calories. People say to me all the time, ” But if I just cut back, isn’t that good enough.” And I tell them “No”. Cutting back does help you reduce your intake, but you have to know how much to cut back. You might think you're cutting back enough, but unless you’re actually counting how do you know. That brings us to our next question. How much should I be eating? There’s an easy formula to calculate the number of calories you should eat to lose weight. Simply multiply your weight times 12. It’s that easy. Example: I weigh 172 pounds. If I multiply that by 12 it equals 2012. I know that works because my doctor's “rule of thumb” is that men should eat about 2000 calories a day, and a woman about 1500. That’s what you need to maintain. Now if you eat more you’ll gain weight but if you eat less then you’ll lose weight.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it. Well, it is pretty simple. The trick is to eat the calories to keep you healthy, and the calories that will help you burn body fat.
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