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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