Fat Burning Foods To Kick Your Fat Loss Into Overdrive
When trying to lose fat you need to take any edge you can get, and fat burning foods could prove to be a powerful addition to your fat loss arsenal.
Now, let’s get this right: the key is moderation – when attempting to lose fat, there is absolutely no such thing as carte blanche to eat as much as you want of any kind of food, because you’ll still put fat on.
When losing weight, the first and foremost thing you must always do is count the calorie value of everything you consume – and that includes the fat burning foods I’m going to give you. Count everything.
You need to monitor your efforts on a weekly basis, which is a substantial enough amount of time to see real change, and not just day-to-day fluctuations of the body. Monitoring your progress will include weighing yourself, and also taking body fat measurements using callipers.
Every person has a different metabolism, and therefore, there really is no global amount of calories every person of a certain weight must consume every day to maintain their weight; it’s going to differ, and it’s your task to find out what your maintenance level is.
What is your maintenance level? Simple – it’s the amount of calories you eat, which consistently keeps you at the same weight. To lose fat, you need to eat less than this maintenance level on a consistent basis, naturally, constantly lowering the amount of calories as progress is made.
That’s the gist of weight loss. So, what about these fat burning foods, where do they come in, and what can they do for you?
Well, when you eat something, because of the energy required to digest and process the food, the body burns calories. The caloric value of most foods greatly outweighs the amount of calories burned during the digestion process – but some foods are the exception to the rule.
By eating these foods in moderation, you can actually cause your body to burn more calories than are being expended by the actual consumption of the foods themselves, which is why they work.
Right, time for the nitty-gritty – here’s the fat burning foods list:
Apple, Asparagus, Beet Root, Blueberries, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Cranberry, Celery, Chicory, Garden Cress, Garlic, Grapefruit, Green Beans, Honeydew, Lemon, Lime, Lettuce, Onion, Orange, Papaya, Peach, Pineapple, Radish, Raspberry, Spinach, Strawberry, Tangerine, Tomato, Turnip, Watermelon, Zucchini.
Ice Water (Note: Because this is water, with a calorie value of zero, you can drink as much of this as you want; and it works so well because your body has to heat the water up before using it, thus causing calories to be burned.)
May 14th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
[...] If you are interested in more details of negative calorie foods, as well as a big list of these foods, you may wish to take a look at my article on fat burning foods. [...]
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
[...] For an extra push at fat loss, make use of negative calorie foods: Negative calorie foods are foods which are so low in calories, and contain certain ingredients which aren’t easily digested, and the amount of energy it takes to digest the foods is usually greater than the energy gotten from the foods, putting the calories in a negative balance. (For a list of these foods, see my article on fat burning foods.) [...]