How Can I Lose Weight – by Transitioning my Behavioral Patterns
Part 2 of How Can I Lose Weight follows. Avoid fad diets if you need to improve your health and fitness.
In part 2 you will learn how to lose weight fast by transitioning from the life-style you are currently living to a new life of lean muscle and healthy weight through behavioral change.
The Fat Burning Furnace System will guide you through the changes from beginning to reaching your goal weight.
When you are eating nutritiously, it is important for your carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to be in balance so you will have a high metabolic rate and increase your fat burning.
The fad diet of the day may seem new and fun, like the “Hollywood Diet”. But to lose weight and stay healthy it is important to give your body what it needs and craves to be fit and healthy.
Types of Foods to Eat and Types of Foods to Avoid
To keep up a high energy level during the day it is necessary to consume complex carbohydrates like pasta, whole grains, breads, and cereals.
Minimize your consumption of processed baked goods, candy, soda and other simple carbohydrates.
These foods have little or no nutritional benefit and will become extra fat if you do not control your consumption.
You can forget about how to lose weight fast if you are eating too many low carbohydrate foods. Our blood sugar levels and our insulin are interconnected. Our insulin regulates our blood sugar level and if we have excess sugar it will be stored at fat. When we are very tired and hungry it is sometimes because our blood sugar is too high and then if we are not careful this cycle can repeat itself.
Complex carbohydrates in sensible amounts can prevent this problem. If you consume foods that are high in proteins you will maintain the cell structures of your body and build lean muscle, like lean meats, soy products, beans, fish and poultry.
If you eat too much protein and it is in more than what your body needs, the excess protein will be stored as fat and the health of your kidneys and liver will be adversely effected. If you are sensible with your protein consumption you should be ok.
Plan to have about 0.5 grams of protein for each pound of body weight. This amount will aid in the growth of your lean muscle
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Protein Sources
Animal and plants are the 2 sources of protein. Most of our protein comes from animal sources in the United States. A word of caution from recent data suggests that too high of an amount of protein in your diet can increase your risk for disease.
If you compare eating animal protein to eating plant protein you will be hungrier after eating animal protein because of the lower amount of fiber in animal protein.
You will not burn extra fat if you consume an excess of animal protein.
Try and get most of your protein from plant sources, such as soy, beans, legumes and less from animal sources.
The fats in nuts, oils and protein are fats that it is important to eat. Fat is a key component to the regeneration of your skin, hair and nails.
There are many fad diets around that have people on very low fat diets and others that are very high fat diets.
The most significant idea to remember is to not go to extremes but do include in your diet lean protein and also small amounts of nuts, seeds and oils.
Your Portion Sizes
I would propose that instead of counting calories to determine the quantity of nutrients you plan to consume, that you have portion sizes that are around the size of the palm of your hand. Then have a balance of 2 vegetable and complex carbohydrate portions and one portion of protein at each meal.
consume bigger portions of green vegetables, they are low in calories and will give you extra fiber and enzymes that will aid you in your digestion.
Eating plenty of green vegetables will also give you the vitamins and minerals that you require to maintain good health. Don’t forget to eat foods that have high nutritional value. This will help you to burn fat and as a result you will lose weight faster.
How many meals per Day
To burn the most body fat how many times should we eat per day.
It is much better to eat several times a day in smaller quantities if your schedule is flexible. This will keep your metabolism high as each time you eat a small meal it raises your metabolism. If possible eat 5 or 6 small meals a day with a lapse of about 3 hours between eating.
The three meals a day habit may be hard to break. If it is too difficult to change from eating 3 meals a day then eat the three meals a day, but eat lesser amounts for each meal and add 2 or three more eating times during the day and have a fruit, granola bar or some other healthy snack.
To make yourself full for a longer time period eat foods that your body requires.
New Recipes
Find new and delicious recipes to cook and eat. Choose some healthy foods that are good for you and then find recipes that have those foods included and omit the unhealthy foods.
Additional Information
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Behavioral Change
Use Behavioral Change to implement the changes that you require in your new healthy eating habits. This will insure that you are on your new healthy eating plan until your reach your goals and forever if you want to stay healthy and fit.