Eating Fewer Ingredients Means Lower Body Fat

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Eating Fewer Ingredients means Lower Body Fat

If you're looking for a way to jack your fat-burning sky-high, here's a great tip for you:

Focus on single ingredient meals, especially after 6:00pm. Single ingredients means simple options for you and less confusion in the long run. Seriously, what could easier than picking one ingredient? And the one ingredient is one of the most important that our bodies need and also it enhances our muscle building ability. The more muscle you have the bigger the engine you have to burn calories.

NOTE: This is not a long-term strategy, nor is it something you should do every day. Aim for consuming 3-4 meals per week at first that contain only one ingredient. I know at first this can be difficult to adjust to, but if you just try it and put it in action you will see that you will modify your "wants" as much as you think you "need" to eat something different. This is a lot like when I switched from regular Pepsi to Diet Pepsi. At first it tasted lousy, but about a week later I preferred it to real Pepsi. Our brains are easily manipulated if you just give it a ...
... try.

Guess what ingredient that is?

PROTEIN

Eating hard proteins foods is a great way to get lean. You can do this using animal or vegetarian based protein foods. So when choosing protein-rich foods, pay attention to what comes along with the protein. Vegetable sources of protein, such as beans, nuts, and whole grains, are excellent choices, and they offer healthy fiber, vitamins and minerals. The best animal protein choices are fish and poultry. If you are partial to red meat, stick with the leanest cuts, choose moderate portion sizes, and make it only an occasional part of your diet. The key is one ingredient. Consume your normal meal's calories all in protein. This will help elevate your thermogenic rate and keep that fat burning. Elevating your thermogenic rate is like turning on the oven to 500 degrees, you will just start burning off the fat. This is one of the best secrets that everyone from bodybuilders to fitness models to actresses use everyday.

If you select a second ingredient, select celery and lots of it. Celery will fill you up and help expend even more calories in the fat-burning process. Celery is like a bonus food that has very little caloric intake and yet you burn calories digesting it. It is sometimes called a negative calorie. Celery is an excellent source of vitamin C, a vitamin that helps to support the immune system. Vitamin C-rich foods like celery may help reduce cold symptoms or severity of cold symptoms; over 20 scientific studies have concluded that vitamin C is a cold-fighter. Vitamin C also prevents the free radical damage that triggers the inflammatory cascade, and is therefore also associated with reduced severity of inflammatory conditions, such as asthma, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis. You can't beat celery. Another secret I use is to drink big glasses of ice-cold water. This is great for two reasons. You get hydrated and consume no calories and also the bonus of your body expending energy (burning calories) to heat the water up as it moves through your body.

Bob Perry is a freelance writer with experience in the bodybuilding field.
He has written hundreds of articles on exercise and fitness.
Check out his blog at http://webmusclefitness.com