Change What You Eat To Burn Fat!
As we discussed yesterday, changing what you do with your body on a regular basis is critical to winning the fat loss battle. Today let's talk about food! You heard me, we are going to talk about your body and how it looks at what you put into it to decide if it's going to burn fat efficiently.
You are rocking along the fatloss trail, losing a pound or two a week, exercising, feeling good, and then a big ole stall happens. You can't figure out why the menu you have eaten for the past six months no longer works for you. You amp up your exercise trying to burn more calories because you really can't drop anymore calories with being miserable.
It might just be your food selections that are slowing you down. Often people who are successful with weight loss will eat the same things day in and day out...yours truly is one of those people. It's OK as long as it's working for you. When it stops working you need to shake things up and there's lots of ways to do it:
1. Look at your average menu and simply change out one thing from each part of the day. You might change the cereal to oatmeal, the turkey sandwich to a chicken salad, the afternoon snack of a protein bar to peanut butter, and dinner from grilled chicken and rice to fish with cheesy veggies. Make a bunch of changes and see if that helps.
2. Do you eat the same calories everyday give or take 100? Do a big shift here. Let's say you average 1600 calories a day. For three days eat 1400 calories a day and then one day eat 2000 calories. Alternate that pattern for a couple of weeks.
3. Are you eating lower carb most of the time? Have a carb high day. Once a week have a day where you eat loads of healthy carbs and then go back to your usual eating pattern.
4. Do you ever have a metabolic boost meal? That's really a splurge meal in sheep's clothing. One time a week you need to eat foods that are higher in fat, calories, and different than your usual fare for your sanity and your waistline. The splurge meal (metabolic boost) helps you to recharge the fires in the belly to burn fat the rest of the week.
OK, that's my down and dirty on how to change up your eating to be a fat burning furnace. I also posted a new page to the website today dedicated to determining "Am I Carb Sensitive?" It has a good template for you to use to develop a fat loss/weight loss eating plan incorporating mini-meals and post-workout fueling. I think you will find it to be a good read and might help you shed those last stubborn pounds.
If you are not even at the point where your foods are clean and needing some shifting, you might check out Eating Strategies 101: How to Lose Fat.
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