Fat Burning Diet

Are you thinking of changing your diet plan to combat increasing weight and achieve your goal of becoming slim? To know more about the fat burning diet, read on...
Fat Burning Diet
Allowing your weight to increase more than what is normal for you is asking for trouble. Each extra pound you carry can mark you as a candidate for heart diseases, obesity, etc. The food we eat contains calories, which are necessary for our well being. Calories are burned during our daily activities. If your daily calories intake is more than your daily calorie expenditure, or rather the calorie burning capability, then the surplus calories get converted into fat, which is stored in the body. Whenever the need arises, the stored body fat is burned to provide energy. However, it depends on your dietary habits. You can change your normal diet to fat burning diet to control and eventually reduce weight.

Fat Burning Diet

Skipping meals, in order to lose weight has adverse effect on your metabolism rate. It is possible to plan a fat burning diet that burns more calories than it contains and supplies to you. Such a fat burning diet plan aims to provide the deficit of calories, by utilizing the fat stored in the body. The low carb diet is recommended for losing weight. However, it often leaves you tired. Some of the experts recommend that it is wise to alternate between high and low carbohydrate diet plans for the same purpose. It is advisable that you consult a dietitian before starting on a best diet for weight loss. The dietitian can devise fat burning diet plans for you, which are aimed at fulfilling 80-85% of your daily calories need. Your fat burning diet should include the following fat burning foods:
  • White or sweet potatoes
  • Corn flakes
  • Whole wheat-bread
  • Fruits: Fruits rich in vitamin C, such as limes and grapefruits, form an important part of extreme fat burning diet. The vitamin C acts on the fat and simplifies it and makes it easy for the body to release it.
  • Apples: A chemical called 'pectin' is present in the apples. It prevents the body cells from absorbing the fats in the ingested food. It also encourages the absorption of water from the food.
  • Chillies: Capsaicin is a chemical present in chillies that can increase your rate of metabolism.
  • Your best fat burning diet must include food items which contains a high percentage of fibers and which have low glycemic index such as lentils.
  • The food items such as dried peas, tomatoes and zucchini can also be included in the fat burning diet.
  • Vegetables like cauliflowers, asparagus, broccoli and sweetened low-fat yogurt, which has glycemic index of 15 can also be a part of, fat burning diet.
  • Fish like tuna and salmon
  • Chicken and beef
Best Diet for Fat Burning

When you are following a diet plan to lose weight, it restricts food options available to you. It takes tremendous amount of will power or complete lack of interest in the food to follow such diet plan. If you don't watch out for it, then feeling of taste fatigue or constant and nagging feeling of hunger may sap your will to achieve your goal of weight loss. The following is a simple fat burning diet plan (for one day) that can give you a fair idea, how to plan your diet:
  • Breakfast:
    1. One waffle
    2. 15 grams of peanut butter (natural)
    3. A cup of strawberries
    4. A cup of whole milk or you skim or soy milk.
  • Lunch:
    1. 115 grams of singed tuna fish
    2. Salad greens
    3. 15 grams of walnuts
    4. Half cup of whole-wheat bread
  • Dinner:
    1. Shrimp
    2. Half a cup of rice. If you fill hungry between the meals, then consume food with low glycemic index.
It is essential that you work out a fat burning diet plan and follow it strictly along with regular exercises, with the help of a dietitian. Strict discipline over diet and positive thinking will help you achieve your goal of reducing weight. Setting a realistic goal is the first step in achieving it. Best of luck!

By Shrinivas Kanade
Published: 9/8/2009
 
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