Fat Burning Tips

[Missy]

Dairy Products
The best tip I can give is to eliminate Dairy products from your diet. Even if you don't do it for a long period, you can greatly reduce the amount of fat in your diet simply by doing this. The Dairy industry tells us that you can by milk in a low fat version (1%). The thing is that this is a trick. Milk is advertised as 1% (or whatever) by volume. That is true. But, it is 70% fat by calories! It is mostly water, so it is low fat by volume. It is High fat by calories. If you eliminate or greatly reduce Dairy products, you can quickly reduce fat! Dairy products are also very mucous forming in the body. This mucous slows down digestion and elimination.

There are a lot more reasons not to drink your milk, or eat dairy products.

-The animals need antibiotics to keep them well. The antibiotics are transfered to us through the milk.
-Milk is then pasteurized so any enzymes are destroyed.
-Synthetic Vitamin D is toxic to the liver.
-FDA has approved the use of BGH (Bovine Growth Hormone) by dairy farmers to increase their milk production.

Essential Fatty Acids
There is good fat! Flax Seed oil is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids. It is known to reduce cholesterol and play a part in burning fat. It is also an important part of a health diet. It improves immune system functioning, strengthens the heart and plays a part in the building of hair, fingernails and skin.

The commonly held belief that fats make you fat is completely wrong. Those who are seriously overweight are almost always fat-phobic carbohydrate junkies. They avoid fats, develop food cravings, and eat sweet and starchy foods. The body does not need the carbohydrate fuel that sweets and starches provide. The body turns into fat all carbohydrates that are not burned for energy.

It is not easy to convince people who want to lose weight to eat more fat. But consider this. In the last 10 years, our intake of fats has decreased from 42% of calories to 35%. This in response to national dietary goals set by experts who operate on only half of the story on fats. It is clearly the wrong advice to give, because in those same 10 years, obesity has gone up, from 20% of the population to 33%. What does that tell you? It's common sense!.

Eating less fat is making us fat. We should be eating more fat. But remember, it should be the right kind of fat. Not the processed fats, but the essential ones.

Decrease the amount of dead food
Get rid of anything in your diet that is non-nourishing. Mayonnaise and other condiments, salt, vinegar, white flour products and canned foods. This is a tall order. Start by cutting back on the amounts and eliminating those that you can. Realize that when you do eat them, they have no nutritional value and will slow your fat loss goals.

Raw Foods
Increase the amount of whole live foods in your diet. Start adding a meal of fruit or a meal of raw vegetables. I would like to note the following here and now:
The principle of proper fruit consumption
Fruit by itself requires no digestion. It must be eaten on an empty stomach and given 20 minutes to an hour by itself to simply slide through the stomach. It immediately starts to provide nutrients as long as it is un-impeded by other solid foods. Adding fruit to a stomach with food in it causes it to sit on top, ferment and be very bad for you. Always drink a glass of water before eating fruit and an hour after to rinse the stomach of any traces of the fruit. Different fruits have different rates of digestion with bananas being the longest at about 45 minutes to an hour.

Water
As I say on the muscle building page, "Water is your life, the better your water, the better your life!". I read once that a body that is 5% low on water is 25% low on energy levels. Your body will be extremely low on water before it signals you of thirst. Keep your water levels maintained. Water is also used in ridding the body of waste. By having a cleaner body internally, digestion improves, energy levels increase and fat loss can continue.

Salt
A quick word about salt. Too much salt causes you to retain water. I'm sure you've heard that expression before. Do you know what it means? When the blood is moving through your veins, carrying nutrients to the cells, those nutrients must pass through the cell wall by osmosis. Salt stops that process. Nutrients can't get in and wastes can't get out. Water is retained, waste is retained. Ease up on the salt!

Fried Foods
I have nothing good to say about fried foods. How high can you count? That's how much fat is in it. And what do you need it for anyway. By getting rid of fried foods, you eliminated an enormous amount of fat, fibreless food and a lot of salt.

[chefs]

Here here, I so agree with you on this. For those of you who are concerned with calcium and vitamin d. Liver, green leafy veggies, nuts, dried beans are just some of the ways you can add one or both of the above. Missy is right, dairy products are a high sorce of fat. And believe it or not if your blood type is O dairy products can actually be harmful to you.

[Michael]

Great advice! IMO a vegetarian/vegan diet is the healthiest way to go. I eat walnuts all the time and still lose weight. If you deprive your body of fat, it will only make you hungrier. Just make sure the fats you take in are healthy.

[Grymm]

Originally Posted by chefs

Missy is right, dairy products are a high sorce of fat. And believe it or not if your blood type is O dairy products can actually be harmful to you.

I've talked with several doctors about the blood type diet. I've also researched extensively and have found no scientific evidence to support the blood type diet. I've seen the book and the author has absolutely zero scientific evidence supporting his claims.

Just eat healthy. That's all. Just eat healthy and exercise. Drink in moderation, stay away from fast-foods and junk snacks, and don't smoke.

That's all it takes. No fancy diets, no little pills.

Grymm

[Bigmak]

no dairy, thats kind of crazy. But it does make sense with all the pasturezing and stuff they do to clean it out.

But my question is about Soy dairy products as a subsitute, is that the better choice? i like it bit a more then low fat and regualr milk

[spacevixen3]

I eat soy milk because I'm mildly lactose intolerant and you get used to it. Dairy products aren't great for you becuase of all the processing and pasteurization methods used in mass production. If we all had a cow in our back yard grazing happily and eating nothing but grass I'm sure the milk would be the most, pure nutirent dense liquid on earth! But industrial farms who feed cows all sorts of crap and chemicals...I just don't like the idea of eating that stuff.

Start out drinking plain or vanilla soy milk and ween yourself onto 'unsweetened' soy milk, Silk is the brand I buy, I like their products a lot. My husband drink organic milk....he says it tastes nicer than regular milk (not that I would know)

[mifsit]

I heard recently that working out in the morning burns more fat than a workout in the evening. Makes sense I guess as you've probably only had breakfast where as in the evening you've got a lot of carbs in your blood stream to burn

[doriesmith]

So the milk industry is down right lying to us in their commercials stating drink 24 in 24 (24soz of milk in 24 hours) to lose weight??? What a shocker! LOL