3 Step-by-Step Meal Plans For the Fans of FatLoss4Idiots!

With due respect to the huge number of articles written on the benefits of calorie shifting, I just wished that the authors of those articles had also taken the time to offer a few easy-go-recipes for the followers of the diet. Regardless, I am going to fill that need with my article! If you have been searching for some good recipes that go well with the concept of calorie shifting, you would be able to find them and more from this article!

For the sake of argument, I am making a few assumptions here, the first of them being that you are quite familiar with the concept of calorie shifting method of dieting. I am also assuming that you are a member of the FatLoss4Idiots diet program, which follows the philosophy of calorie shifting diet. Now if those two assumptions are true, then you are going to profit tremendously from this article. I will offer you a 3-day meal plan based on the dietary requirements of FatLoss4Idiots.

For your information, these meal plans are only for the non-vegetarians; I cannot mention the vegetarian diet here, as it would mean infringing on the copyright of FatLoss4Idiots. If you require the vegetarian version of these meals, you can access that from within their membership area.

Also, note that you are free to consume these meals in any way and order you wish, the only exception being the meal plan of second day. Furthermore, if you don’t want to eat a particular food suggested in the meal plan, you are free to do that as well. These meal plans are as flexible as they should be, so that you can enjoy your meals and lose weight at the same time!

1. Meal Plan for First day:

Your first day should consist of the following meals:

Meal A-

I) Mixture of vegetables in steamed form: When you are starting the diet, I would recommend that you eat a bowl of steamed vegetables. You can have any number of vegetables you wish in the mix. If however, you choose to eat them fried, make sure you use as little oil as possible; I would also suggest the use of olive oil over your regular fatty oil.

II) Slices of roasted beef and hard boiled eggs: It is important to start building your lean muscle mass right from day one, as more lean muscles means speedier fat burning and a stronger and flatter body! Increasing your protein intake is a great way to build strong muscles, and good news is that both lean beef and eggs are rich in protein content!

Meal B-

Your second meal would consist of eggs, this time in scrambled form. Additionally, you should also consume broiled sea bass.

Meal C-

For the third meal, I suggest sausage links along with cottage cheese.

Meal D-

For the fourth meal, broiled orange roughy along with tuna salad would make a fabulous combo, and if you add a few pears to the mix (in fresh form of course), you cannot help but explain ‘Wow!’

2. Meal Plan for Second day:

You could have the following meals on second day:

Meal A-

For the first meal, you should eat nothing except a deli meat sandwich. To make this sandwich, you should only use the following ingredients:

-Any kind of meat that fits the deli style, such as turkey, ham, roasted beef, etc.

-2 Medium-sized sandwich breads

-Optionally, you can also add onions, tomatoes and lettuce to the mix

Meal B to D-

Your next three meals should consist of nothing but fruits. You are however free to choose any fruits from the following: peaches, pears, plums, oranges, apples, kiwis, strawberries, grapes, grapefruit, etc.

3. Meal Plan for Third day:

If you are bored of the fruit-only meals of the previous day, the meals of the third are as delicious as they could be!

Meal A-

You can start your day off with shrimps (one of my favorite foods by the way) as well as Pastrami in sliced form.

Meal B-

For the second meal, nothing could be better than having lean chicken meat. Along with chicken, you should also have the macadamia nuts, as they are rich in unsaturated fats!

Meal C-

Did I say that the third day has some interesting foods in store for you! For your third meals, you can have both cheese and turkey, although in sliced form. Along with that you can also have banana milk shake (trust me, it tastes fantastic!).

Meal D-

With this fourth meal, you would be back to square one. Remember that when you started dieting I recommended hard-boiled eggs and slices of roasted beef for your first meal! Well, you can have them again for this fourth meal. That completes the dieting cycle!

Even the best laid out meal plans could appear to be boring after sometime, which is why I highly recommend that you use the diet generator software that comes free with your FatLoss4Idiots membership! This tool would generate awesome meal plans based on your food choices.

A diet program that lets you eat what YOU want- can anything be better than that!

Lose Weight And Get Ripped Without Dieting

Losing weight and melting the existing fat off of your body can be accomplished a lot easier then most people think.

Dieting is unfortunately a necessary evil when it comes to losing weight but in this article you’ll see how you can “effectively” diet without having to actually diet at all. You see dieting or more specifically losing weight is a direct result of your body consuming fewer calories then your body burns and in this short article you’ll discover how you can consume fewer calories without having to diet.

The key to this program and to reducing the amount of calories you consume is drinking water. But more specifically, if you really want dramatic results you should replace all of the sodas, juices and sugary drinks currently in your diet with water.

A twelve ounce can of soda contains 155 calories and by replacing all of the sugary drinks you currently consume with water, which contains zero calories, you’ll essentially be dieting. But more importantly you’ll be reducing the amount of calories you consume without altering your food diet one bit.

The other key with water is to drink it throughout the day. Most people don’t know this but between meals when you’re feeling hungry and you feel like snacking nine times out of ten you’re not actually hungry… you’re actually dehydrated and your body is just thirsty!

The best way to eliminate unnecessary snacking between meals is to first try and drink a bottle of water prior to assuming that you are hungry and having a snack. It’s also key here to be prepared and to have some healthy snacks available at the office to have with your water instead of the junk food you’ll find in the vending machine.

Ok so you’ve reduced the number of calories you’re consuming, you’re “dieting”, and now let’s look at a way of burning the existing fat off your body form all your problem areas.

If you really want to change the way you look in a matter of weeks then you’ll wake up early in the morning and you’ll workout on an empty stomach.

Doing a medium impact workout on an empty stomach activates the fat burning mechanism in your body because your body has nothing in its stomach because you haven’t eaten all night. Thi9s forces your body to tap into its fat stores to get its energy!

Putting your body into fat burning mode isn’t as easy as most gym goers think unfortunately. It requires a special kind of workout. As a rule of thumb you basically want to be able to maintain a conversation with someone while working out. You want to do a medium-impact cardio workout. Nothing to rigorous if you want to burn fat.

Follow those steps above and you’ll be well on your way to achieving a leaner and tighter body in no time at all.

Calorie Shifting or Calorie Counting: Which One Would Help Me Lose Belly Fat Fast?

While it is vital to understand the concept of calorie clearly for the purpose of successful weight loss, the different types of calorie controlling methods adopted by different dieting programs often leave us confused and bewildered! Take for example the concepts of calorie counting and calorie shifting. Both techniques would work in their own rights and lead you to weight loss success, provided that you follow the rules religiously! But of course the obvious question is: which method is easier and better? Well that is what this article would tell you!

It is indeed hard to answer this question since both calorie shifting and calorie counting have their respective strong and weak points.

1. Calorie counting-

Strong points: The main advantage of the calorie counting method is that it offers you permanent weight loss, albeit very slowly. If you are patient enough, you are sure to get good results from its use over time. Another big plus point is that it recommends exercise along with dieting for accelerating the weight loss process.

One good thing about regular exercising is that you can build strong lean muscles with their help, with in turn translates to a higher metabolic rate! When you have a strong and muscular body, coupled with high metabolism, you will be able to burn fat not only at the time of working out but also at rest! If you are wondering how your bodybuilder friend manages to keep weight away all the year round, this might be his secret!

Weak points: The obvious weak point of the calorie counting technique is that it takes a lot of patience and self-discipline on your part to follow this dieting method for your whole life! Just imagine counting the calorie contents of each and every morsel you put in your mouth, and doing this for days, weeks, months or even years, and you would get an idea of what I mean! To be honest, most of us are too accustomed to an ‘easy-going’ lifestyle to be able to keep up with this diet for long enough!

This dieting technique is extremely restrictive regarding the types of foods you are allowed to eat. Not only you are likely to get bored of eating the same old, boring foods time and again, it also makes it quite difficult for you to eat out at a fast food restaurant once in a while, because you never know how much calorie you would be putting in your mouth through the restaurant food (dont be fooled by the calorie stats mentioned in the menu cards, as they are hardly ever accurate)!

Perhaps the worst thing about this way is that it constricts your calorie intake to an abysmally low level, thereby leaving your body begging for more! If your body doesn’t get the minimum amount of calorie, it would slow down your metabolic rate and stop the fat burning process, thereby making it difficult for you to lose weight.

2. Calorie shifting- Now let’s move on to calorie shifting. It seems that more and more people are taking a liking to this method in the recent times and not without a reason!

Strong points: The first reason behind its popularity is that it offers you fast weight loss WITHOUT restricting you to a few boring foods. In fact, with this method, you can eat any type and amount of food you want subject to a certain daily calorie intake limit! The makers of the calorie shifting method of dieting believe that when your body receives foods of varying calorie contents and your daily calorie consumption differs widely, it would always keep your metabolic rate high!

As you can see, with this method, you won’t have to spend sleepless nights if ever you happen to have a fill at a fast food restaurant. This diet needs less patience on your part, and since it doesn’t recommend daily workouts, more and more people are finding it attractive!

Weak points: That said, even the calorie shifting technique is not devoid of certain weaknesses. If doing calculations is something you cringe about, then this diet may not be for you as you would need to make a lot of nitty-gritty calculations to become successful with it!

For example, you would need to calculate how frequently you should eat, how and in what degree you would be alternate between different types of foods, as well as how to alternate your meal times in a way so as to derive the optimum benefits from your diet. All these calculations are sure to leave you quite confused and frustrated!

Also, since it doesn’t recommend workouts, you are virtually limited to losing weight solely with the help of dieting, which is an awfully slow process! Further you would never be able to quit your diet because if you do, you would become overweight all over again! Here is why-

You can remain fit and slim only if your body has a decent amount of lean muscle mass, since lean muscles keep the fat away by burning excess calories all the time, whether you diet or not. However this diet doesn’t recommend you to workout and you cannot build strong lean muscles without doing regular workouts!

For that reason, even if you are lucky enough to get rid of your fat belly, it would be very difficult for you to maintain your slim body for long unless you continue dieting forever!

That said, I recommend calorie shifting in spite of its weaknesses, since it is much easier to follow and offers faster weight loss results than calorie counting. Since calorie shifting places fewer restrictions on your food intake, you don’t feel deprived at any point of time. At the same time, I would also recommend that you add a daily dose of workouts with this dieting method in order to lose weight really fast!

The Diet Which Helped Beyonce Knowles Lose Weight - Is It Healthy?

Beyonce Knowles-in recent times, days she became more famous for her sudden unexpected weight loss than either her vocal cords or histrionic abilities! Once she claimed on a TV show to have lost almost twenty pounds of fat using a special diet program, everyone went crazy over it. So what is this diet program and exactly how does it work, and more importantly, could Beyonce’s results be duplicated by others? I will answer all these questions in this article.

Beyonce claimed to have lost the weight while shooting for the film Dream Girls, where she plays her real life role, that of a singer. Now anyone who is familiar with the environment of movie sets would know that it is virtually impossible to maintain a strict diet out there. Now you maybe are wondering how she lost weight despite all the odds!

Well, her nutritionist prescribed a special detox drink for her and during the following two weeks, she survived on nothing except that drink! That is a bit tough I agree; I for one cannot even imagine being on a liquid diet, that too, for two weeks straight!

But that is what Beyonce did, and whenever she would suffer from unbearable pangs of hunger, she would douse it with this detox drink. So that is how she lost weight! If you want to follow this diet plan, I would recommend that you don’t use it beyond a week or ten days at most!

Fortunately it doesn’t take a lot of skill or expertise to prepare this drink. All you need is to do is to get eight ounces of clean and pure sprint water, and then add these ingredients to it:

a) 2 tablespoonfuls each of lemon juice and maple syrup. Both the lemons and maples should be fresh and completely organic, and the juice must be made at home. Don’t buy high-calorie flavored juices from your local store!

b) If you want you can also add a little bit of cayenne pepper to the mix for flavor.

So that’s it! I would say that it would taste best if you cool it off in the refrigerator but of course you can also drink it hot! Both lemon and maple cleanse all the toxins from your body and therefore help you lose unnecessary weight!

However just like other liquid diets, this one also has several downsides, and Beyonce herself admitted to have followed it out of lack of choice; she further admitted that given a choice, she would prefer a healthier diet plan to this one. If you really want to follow this diet plan, make sure to fix an appointment with your local nutritionist just like Beyonce did, so as to make sure that your body is fit for this diet plan!

The one major drawback of this diet is that it virtually makes you starve, and that is not a good weight loss technique. When you starve, you will lose weight for sure but that would be just water weight! As soon as you get back to your normal food habits, you would gain back all the ‘lost’ weight instantly! If you want to get rid of your fat belly or flabby arms, you need to lose FAT, something which this detox diet is unable to help you with!

Fatigue and weakness are some of the drawbacks you may suffer from the use of this diet, so be careful if you decide to go for it!

Top 3 Causes Why You Should Lose Weight by Exercising

No matter how much money and time you spend, you are not going to lose real fat as long as you keep hating exercises. Truth to be told, there are fad diets which claim to help you achieve quick weight loss but offer nothing except water and muscle loss instead!

There are also diet pills which promise to boost your metabolic rate sky high but in reality connect you with several harmful maladies. However, exercise is one true friend which always keeps its promise of helping you lose REAL fat! With exercises, you have not one but THREE ways to achieve weight loss!

1. Guaranteed weight loss: Diets come with no guarantee; they may or may not work for you, or even if they work, they may not offer you the promised weight loss results. But exercises are guaranteed to work for almost anyone and everyone, and there is no denying the fact that as long as you maintain your regular workout routine, you would be able to maintain your slim body as well!

2. Permanent weight loss: Usually, the weight you lose with the aid of fad diets or diet pills is not permanent weight loss! With most fad diets and pills you would lose weight by way of water weight loss, and NOT fat loss. Often these diets also cause valuable muscle loss. To add to your woes, the water weight you ‘lost’ reappear as soon as you quit dieting and return to normal eating!

Plus, since you lost your valuable muscles through dieting, your fat burning capability is also reduced considerably, since the fewer muscles you have, the lower your metabolic rate would be! Obviously you cannot expect to burn fat and lose weight with a low metabolic rate! You can well imagine the end result of following such diets.

On the other hand, the weight you lose with the help of exercises, no matter how small it may be, is bound to be permanent weight loss! Assuming that you would never deviate from leading an active lifestyle, you would NEVER gain back the weight you lost with the help of exercises! This is because unlike fad diets or weight loss pills, exercises burn REAL fat which is the primary source of all your troubles!

3. Forced weight loss: You may think that by starving or crash dieting you would force your body to burn all fat quickly; however, the reality is just the opposite! People believe that when the body gets zero supply of carbohydrates (which is its primary source of energy), it would be forced to burn the existing fat deposits in order to produce the required energy!

But in reality your body burns muscles instead of fat. It is a fact that your body loves those fat deposits very dearly no matter how much you may detest them, mainly because it knows that it could use this fat to sustain itself in case a famine occurs in future.

Workouts, on the other hand, force your body to burn fat. When you start exercising, the first two or three weeks would be the most difficult periods of your life. You would find it extremely difficult to lift those heavy weights or walk on the treadmill. As such, you won’t be able to workout for long enough.

This however offers your body a message that in order to make it less difficult for you to exercise, it needs to get rid of fat. As you exercise week after week and month after month, your body keeps burning the fat deposits, and the more weight you lose the easier exercising becomes for you! Once you get rid of all the extra fat and build valuable lean muscle mass, you would be able to easily lift almost ten times the amount of weight you might be lifting at present.

Now you need to select whether you would prefer to lose weight rapidly with fad diets only to become fat all over again sometime later, or do it slowly with workouts and keep your slim figure permanently!

Simple Weight Loss Tips for Natural Weight Loss

There are several different ways to lose weight, but the general consensus is that by far dieting is the best and simplest way to get rid of unwanted fat. Now there are several kinds of fad diets available and then there are also a few healthy dieting programs which work quite differently. At first look they would all seem to be cousins of each other, but in reality different dieting programs would offer you different weight loss results!

Some programs would help you lose a lot of fat quickly, the only catch being that such ‘weight loss’ is often temporary! You would gain back the ‘lost weight’ as soon as you quit dieting and return to normal eating mode. Then there are other diets which provide you permanent weight loss but work rather slowly. The type of diet plan you would choose for yourself depends on your mindset!

In my opinion, I would go for the ’slow’ dieting program as I am able to achieve permanent weight loss even if it takes a long time. You see, gaining back those same pounds you worked so hard to lose is no fun. For this reason, I always ask my clients how much they are commitment to weight loss, and how far they could go in order to achieve their goals!

Take note that weight loss requires self-discipline and long term commitment on your part! You are required to change your lifestyle habits by forgetting about the junk foods and couch and replacing them with natural foods and regular exercise! Obviously, for an average person, it is quite tough to implement such a dramatic change; no wonder only a few strong-willed folks are able to acquire the much coveted slim body!

Contrary to popular belief, people don’t always gain weight because of following poor lifestyle habits! Many a time certain medical conditions make a person overweight, and in such cases, you need professional help. If you are not sure about the cause of your obesity, I would suggest you consult with your doctor before taking any decision in this regard!

People often suffer from a misconception that they would need to starve just to lose weight. Do you know that almost always starving has the opposite effect on your body? Instead of losing weight, you would actually gain some extra pounds! A better approach is to eat healthy and natural foods which are low on calorie content and yet offer your body the required nutrition!

An even better approach is to eat more of negative calorie foods; in case you don’t know, negative calorie foods require more calories to digest themselves than what they offer to your body. With such foods, a natural calorie deficit occurs and your body is forced to provide extra calories by burning your existing fat deposits and as a result, you lose weight! Asparagus, apples, oranges, beetroots, cucumbers, etc., are just some of the negative calorie foods available to you!

Most of us shy away from workouts because we feel that doing long hours of boring cardios or lifting heavy weights is something we cannot do! However, exercising is not limited to these two types of workouts; you can, if you want, lose weight just by walking daily! Give your old car a rest and use your legs instead!

When going to a top floor, use the stairs instead of elevator, as that would help you burn a lot of unwanted calories! When watching your favorite movie on TV, walk around in the room instead of sitting on your couch. Such simple activities would go a long way in helping you lose weight!

The One Weight Loss Method You Cannot Do Without!

If you are reading this article, you are either:

-Fed up of your fat belly and the taunts of your friends and colleagues about it!

-Eager to get into a two-piece and flaunt your sexy body on a sea-beach

-Served an ultimatum by your doctor that you could die prematurely unless you get rid of fat in time

-Annoyed of all your past weight loss endeavors because they bore no fruit

Now, if you fall in any of the five categories above, then this article is for you! While different people have different reasons for losing weight, the weight loss tips almost always remain more or less same. In this article I will discuss about the simple and most important strategy for fast weight loss.

What is your weight loss goal? This is one question you should be able to answer without blinking an eye; if not then you need to find the answer NOW, before the whole world! Trying to lose weight without a set goal is like driving on a highway without a proper map to guide you; in both cases you are likely to lose your way and become unsuccessful in reaching your destination!

The very first thing you need to do for the purpose of successful weight loss is to set a goal which is easy and doable. Note that I mentioned ‘easy and doable’. Far too many people fail in weight loss even after setting their respective goals because their goals tend to be vague or unrealistic.

If you have a goal of ‘losing all the extra pounds by the end of the year’ or ‘having a body like Jessica Simpson or Beyonce Knowles’ within two-and-half months, you would hardly reach these targets, mainly because they are vague and unrealistic. While it is okay to dream big, you should also keep your own weaknesses and strengths in mind when setting your weight loss goals!

So what are realistic and feasible goals? Let’s take first example goal I mentioned above: “I want to lose all extra pounds by the end of the current year!” Let’s say that you want to do this, but this is NOT your goal! Your next step would be to figure out exactly how many ‘extra pounds’ you need to lose. Assuming that you have thirty pounds to lose, it would realistically take you at least 15 weeks or four months to lose them naturally and healthily (at the rate of 2 pounds per week); that is, assuming that you won’t ‘cheat’ on your diet at all, which is very unlikely!

So to be further realistic, you can add 1 day ‘cheat period’ every week when you could indulge yourself to the favorite foods of your choice. With the inclusion of this extra ‘cheat day’, you would probably need another month or two to reach your goal. All in all, you should be able to reach your goal in about six months.

Therefore your goal would be to “lose 15 pounds in 6 months at the rate of 2 pounds maximum each day”. Now that is what I would call a REALISTIC goal! Once you set a realistic goal, you have won half the battle!

Is LipoWrap Real or Scam - The Absolute Secret Revealed!

Since quite a number of people know how difficult it could be to get rid of fat from all areas of the body, most of them prefer to opt for spot fat reduction programs which let you get rid of fat in selected areas. For example, if you want to get rid of fat belly but feel that the flabby arms are okay since they are not bothering you that much, then such programs are for you!

One such program is LipoWrap. Whether or not such spot fat reduction programs really work in the long term is a another question altogether and something I am going to discuss in this article.

The manufacturer of LipoWrap claims that it is a brand new method of losing weight! However, as I told you, there is nothing revolutionary and extraordinary about it as the concept of spot fat reduction has been around for a while. There are even certain workouts which claim to help you spot reduce fat.

However, just like fad diets, almost always people end up being disappointed with those spot fat reduction programs time and again! You would think it should dent in the popularity of such programs, but that doesn’t seem to be the case!

This program is called LipoWrap for a reason; it is a gel which comes packaged in a special kind of wrap. Unlike other spot fat reduction systems, you don’t need to use plasters or bandages with this program, which is a big plus point in my opinion!

I reviewed this product for several months, and from what I can tell after comparing the reviews of third party sites with those posted on the company’s website, the reviews on the company’s website are rather shady! This is one reason why you would get to see very few testimonials on the site itself. I won’t be surprised if one day I discover that they are a scam too!

Now the disadvantages. The first disadvantage is that from the website itself you would never get any satisfactory details about the ingredients which went into the making of this special gel! It mostly discusses the delivery process which I think is quite irrelevant and unnecessary since the product delivery method is pretty simple!

The second disadvantage is that you would hardly find a positive review of this product on third party sites such as consumer forums and message boards, as I mentioned earlier. Further, no reputed clinic has tested its effectiveness nor is there any known scientific evidence of the efficiency of such gels! As such, I really doubt it works as advertised, especially since the website itself doesn’t discuss much of it!

To this I would even add that from my experience, trying to spot reduce fat is like fighting a losing battle! No matter how hard you try to force your body to burn fat in your chosen area, it won’t fulfill your wish! When it comes to burning fat, your body gets to choose where to start burning fat from, and this is also the reason why doing hours of ab crunches hardly help!

Top 4 Simple Walking Tips To Burn Your Fat Away!

Who of us won’t love to have all of that stubborn fat melt away quickly and easily? But if only it could happen! The fact remains that while you can burn sugar and calories really fast, the same cannot be said of fat, even though it is formed from calories and sugar!

That said, there are still effortless ways to burn fat and lose weight, and when I mean ‘ effortless ‘, I obviously don’t refer either to starving for several days on end or doing long boring cardios for hours! Believe it or not, if you are prepared to walk everyday, you cannot but get rid of fat!

Many would not agree that it would take several years for an overweight person to lose fat solely with the help of walking, in sharp contrast to intense workouts such as interval training. That might be true, but then again, how many of us have the stamina to bear the strain of intense workouts! The answer is, very few.

If you have never worked out in life, it is silly to even imagine that you would be able to manage those hard workouts with ease. On the contrary, walking is simple to do and it is not true that you cannot burn fat with it! You just need to be steady and patient and never lose heart. Here are a few walking tips for you to help you gain the maximum mileage from this exercise.

1. It is very important that you wear the correct shoes while walking, or you would be in danger of injuring your feet badly! I would advise a pair of decent tennis shoes for this purpose, and you can buy them from your local store at an affordable price! With tennis shoes, the sole of your foot rests comfortably, thereby making walking easier for you with no fear of injuries!

2. We often set fixed schedules for almost all the important activities of our life except that of looking after our health. This is a rather strange behavior as a one’s health comes before even his most important activity! It is easy for you to forget about your daily walking routine if you don’t schedule it like your other important tasks. Make walking your top priority, because it really IS!

3. To shed even more fat from this exercise, you can carry one pound of weight in each of your hands. While walking, you can raise your arms over your head and then gently let them fall on the side. As you repeat this exercise while walking, it would make your heart beat faster and consequently you would be burning more fat!

If you prefer to carry the weight in your legs instead of hands, you can buy leg weights instead! They are available for varying amounts of weights, and are quite cheap too! You can get them for as low as $5 or $6, depending on the amount of weight you are buying!

4. If you feel a bit impatient, you can add half-an-hour of extra intense workout along with your regular walking schedule. The reason I left this tip for the last is that you should do it only when you are fully comfortable with walking. This can tremendously accelerate the weight loss process for you and you would be able to get rid of those annoying pounds quicker than you would with just plain walking!

Top 3 Easy Food Tips to Burn Fat Fast!

Some people wrongly believe that food is the culprit behind their weight gain. To be honest, this is just another misconception. Just as a tool can be used both in right and wrong ways, the same can be said about food. Assuming that food is a ‘tool’, if you use it wrongly you would gain weight for sure, but it is possible to use that same ‘tool’ for the purpose of losing weight, provided that you learn to use it right! In this article I will tell you how to use food in order to shed unwanted pounds from your belly!

1. Snacking ain’t bad, but check your snacks closely: If you thought that snacking in between meals is not favorable for weight loss, you couldn’t be further from the truth! In fact, experts actually recommend snacking in-between meals as it is a good way to keep yourself full at all times! If you are hungry, you are more probably to gorge on junk and fatty foods than otherwise.

However, you need to confirm that the snacks you are eating are not unhealthy. It is easy to see the difference between a carrot or an apple and a packet of chips; the former is healthy and the latter is not! While chips would add more unwanted pounds to your body, apple would help you burn those fat deposits! Now you know which snacks to go for and which ones to avoid, right?

2. Choose the right fats: Fat is not all bad, as some think. Cutting down extremely on your fat intake may affect your health negatively, while on the other hand consuming fat in the form of junk and fatty foods would make you overweight.

In fact, there are two types of fats out there: the saturated or ‘bad’ fat and the unsaturated or ‘good’ fat. Saturated fats are available in plenty in junk foods, and they do nothing except expanding your body in inches and pounds! On the other hand, unsaturated fats found in canola and olive oils keep your body healthy!

Needless to say, you should go for unsaturated fats over the saturated ones; unsaturated fats can also be found in fishes such as salmon and tuna.

3. Pick protein over sugar: Do you eat sugary foods simply to become more energetic? Here is the real truth about sugar: while it provides you a sudden outburst of energy, that energy lasts only for a temporary period, after which you feel fatigued and hungry all over again. What follows next is gorging on more sugar-rich foods like a hungry wolf.

And the fun part is that the more sugary foods you eat, the hungrier you feel! And do you know what does sugar do once it gets inside your body? It immediately converts itself first into glucose and then fat!

Here is a better and healthier way to gain the same amount of energy: eat protein-rich foods. Protein would help you burn fat by building muscles, and the more fat you burn, the more energetic you become! Foods such as lean chicken meat and eggs are rich in protein; I usually have eggs for breakfast and chicken for dinner!

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