Five Fab Foods to add to your Fat Burning Diet

Five Fab Foods to add to your Fat Burning Diet

It is not enough to add exercise and calorie counting to your fat burning diet attempts but you have to sometimws tweak things up a bit by trying other tricks such as adding these 5 fat burning foods to your plate

1. Grapefruit. Grapefruit is full of vitamin c which can reduce insulin levels which promotes fat burning weight loss. The grapefruit diet is not a joke either. Studies have shown that people who ate a half a grapefruit with each meal for about 12 weeks lost an average of 3.6 pounds. That may not seem like a lot but if you are watching what you eat and exercising it can help speed things up a bit. Grapefruit can affect some medications so check with your physician about eating grapefruit if you are taking medications of any kind  to check for possible reactions.

2. Lean Turkey, Turkey,the white meat not the dark can rev up your fat burning. This is a favorite with the champion body builders because it is low in fat and has protein . Protein has been shown to boost the fat burning fire engines and build lots of lean muscle tissue. 3 ounces has just 1 gram of fat and 20 grams of protein.

3. Broccoli . Broccoli is not everybody’s favorite food and that is too bad because this vegetable packs a lot of bang for the buck of good stuff for fat burning. It is full of the mineral calcium making it good for your bones and for losing weight. Studies have shown that consuming some calcium every day helps burn fat. It is also loaded with vitamin c which aids your body in absorbing calcium. It has belly filling fiber in it also to help keep your appetite under control.

4. Green Tea. Green Tea has been studied extensively for its fat burning properties and has come up a winner every time. It has catechins in it that inhibit movement of the body’s glucose into fat cells. It also helps slow rises in blood sugar after meals and this can cause weight gain because high spikes of insulin promote fat storage. If you switch the morning java for green tea you will save all the calories and turn that morning drink into a fat burning aide.

5. Oatmeal. Oatmeal is more of an energy food that will give you stamina for those long fat burning workouts and it also has fat-soluble fiber. Oatmeal also helps you feel full longest of almost any fiber rich food. Oats have up to 5 grams of fiber per serving. Be sure that you choose the steel cut or rolled ones. The instant ones are full of sugar and have been over processed. Try putting oats in your meatloaf instead of the standard breadcrumbs.

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