Best Fat Burning Diets – Forget About It
You see fat burning diets advertised all the time. Diets that actually burn fat for you. Keep your money in the pocket. There is NO magic to weight loss.
Weight is lost when fewer calories are consumed than are expended. That’s the ONLY way that fat is burned.
When necessary, the body will tap into the energy reserves (fat) to fuel the body. Fat isn’t going to just burn itself up because you eat certain foods or take certain over-the-counter drugs that claim to cause you to burn fat while you sleep.
All diets that are designed for weight loss will burn fat. That’s the point. The body is an efficient machine whose sole purpose is survival. When we eat more calories than we burn, the body very efficiently stores this extra fuel as fat so that it will be there just in case. The “just in case” happens when we go on a weight loss diet of any kind.
It IS true that certain foods actually affect a calorie burn greater than the calories contained in the food.
Citrus fruits are one of those foods, and so are asparagus, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, chilies, soybeans, sweet potatoes, apples, blueberries, and watermelons.
Please note that every one of these foods is a healthy fruit or vegetable and usually recommended on any diet.
The thing is there are two important factors to burning fat. One is consuming fewer calories, and the other is expending more calories with exercise.
Exercise not only burns up fat while you are doing it, but it increases the metabolism rate and causes the body to burn more calories than usual for a significant time period after the exercise has ended.