Tips to Burn More Fat

There's no magic formula for burning more fat. No magic diet or foods that will burn fat fast. The only way to burn fat and lose weight is to eat less calories than you burn. Your body's metabolism (the rate your body burns calories) and your eating habits are the two most important elements to burning fat.  

You can burn fat through regular aerobic exercise, which increases the metabolism.  Eating less calories per day will cause your body to burn fat and/or muscle. Ideally you want to burn fat. 

Eating about 500 calories less per day will make your body burn more fat.  If you cut down on your meals too much, your body will starve and burn more muscle than fat.  Your appetite will increase to make up for the days you starved yourself. That's when you're vulnerable to over-eating,  which is why crash diets never work. 

Don't believe the phony advertisements that advocate fast weight loss.  No pill or diet shake will burn fat or cause you to lose weight permanently.  The only way to lose weight and keep it off is to eat more low fat foods, reduce your calorie intake and exercise moderately.

The following are some simple suggestions you can use to help to burn more fat and lose weight:

·         Reduce portion of foods by one-third.

·         Eat more fruits and vegetables and less fried foods.

·         Avoid impulsive snacking which can put extra fat on the body over time.

·         If you're a milk drinker, switch to 1% fat milk.

·         Eat more bake fish and chicken and remove the skin from chicken.

·         Eat extra lean ground beef (5% fat).

·         Avoid foods with cream sauces because they are loaded with calories.

·         Use light mayonnaise and low fat dressing on sandwiches and salads

·         Plan the foods to buy at the grocery store based on a low calorie, low fat diet and write them down on a shopping list.  Buy only the foods on the list.

·         Never grocery shop when you're hungry.

·         Learn to read labels on the packages of foods that you buy.  You will find calories, fat, fiber and other valuable nutritional information.

·         Reduce consumption of juices which are high in calorie.  Drink 8 cups of water instead of juice per day.

·         Walk or jog regularly (minimum 3 days a week) to increase your metabolism

·         Avoid the daily burger and fries for lunch

·         Use a calorie counter book and keep track of your meals.  Write daily record of calories and fat consumed.

For more ideas on foods that burn fat, please see our home page ….  Super Foods that Burn Fat