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When it comes to “cutting”, losing weight, or burning fat, your biggest ally or biggest enemy is your diet.
To build muscle, you need to eat certain things, just as you need to eat certain things to burn fat.
When I tell people “I can’t eat that because it’s not apart of my diet”, they look a me funny and say “you don’t need to lose weight”.
Your diet is what you eat, good or bad, whether you want to lose or gain weight.
That being said, if you want to burn fat, your main goal in your diet should be to keep your metabolism as high as possible.
Your metabolism is the rate at which you burn energy. We all know that fat is stored energy (and wastes), so to get rid of this, your aim should be to keep the rate at which you burn energy quite high.
But I can hear you saying right now “I have a slow metabolism. I gain fat/weight easily and it’s hard to lose it.” I’ll do a blog later on internal beliefs but in short, YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK.
CONTRARY to popular belief (popular hardly ever means right) your genetics only influence your overall metabolism by 5% to 10% – a very small portion.
Your rate of calorie burn is largely determined by your age, weight, level of activity, food, and increments of food – to name a few.
Needless to say, your metabolism is largely up to you. Review my blog on 9 ways to instantly increase your metabolism.
Now, for the fat burning foods, which actually increase your metabolism.
1. Oats & Whole Grains
They are a great source of carbs and they digest slow. This keeps your insulin low, which you want to do most of the day.
2. Jalapenos
Spicy peppers contain capsaicin which increases your heart rate (so that’s what that is!). A spicy meal can boost your metabolism for several hours. I like to throw plenty of spices on my chicken breast and in my rice.
3. Chicken
A great source of lean protein and should be a staple in any diet (whether to gain or to lose weight). This lean protein is great for boosting your metabolism and helping you burn fat because proteins takes more energy to break down than carbs. I think like most builders, I eat chicken breast almost every day.
4. Salmon
Fish is a great source of protein also. But it’s on the fat burning list because it contains Omega-3 fatty acids which help lower leptin levels. Lower leptin levels increase your calorie burn. I eat fish several times a week.
5. Green Tea
It’s not exactly a food, but a drink and also important for many reasons. It has EGCG which increases brain and nervous system activity, it’s an antioxidant, and helps increase calorie burn because of these.
I tried to include different categories here, to give you a framework of which types of foods increase your metabolism and help you burn fat.
Now go out, and start burning around the clock.
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