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The Best Times to Eat for Weight Loss

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How and when you eat can impact your health—and your  weight. Upgrade your eating habits to maximize fat burning  and keep hunger at bay source Certainly what we eat has an enormous impact on our health and weight status. But did you know that when and how we eat also make a huge difference? Eating at the appropriate times throughout the day will help to maximize fat burning and keep hunger at bay. Aim to eat every 3 to 4 hours.  Most people eat three meals and one snack, while others may prefer four smaller meals; you're free to find the combination that works best for you. Timing your meals in this way will improve your fat loss by preventing excess insulin, allowing leptin to work its magic on appetite control and metabolism, and by balancing the stress hormone cortisol. You should also enjoy your meals at the same time every day. Eat within 1 hour of rising.  Your mom was also right when she told you breakfast was the most important meal of the day. When you skip...

The top five negative-calorie health foods that burn fat while making you feel full

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How do you eat more while losing more weight at the same time? One of the best answers is to eat "negative-calorie" foods, meaning that these foods actually take more energy to digest than they deliver to your body. While these foods may be an important source of  phytonutrients , they are not sources of fat-packing calories. Source Because of their surprising lack of calories, these foods can essentially be consumed in  unlimited quantities  without you gaining weight (body fat). That works because your stomach senses when it is physically full, and it will trigger your brain to stop eating when you can't handle more food. You know that "I feel stuffed" feeling? That's your stomach (which has its own complex nervous system, by the way), telling your brain to tell  you  to stop eating. This is why, believe it or not, the simple act of  drinking a glass of water  before each meal is a proven weight loss strategy. It fills your belly with water, thereby ...

Burning Fat With Flavonoids

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Nuts appear to boost one’s metabolism, such that when we eat nuts we burn more of our own fat to compensate. People who don’t eat nuts tend to burn off around 20 grams of fat a day–about 5 pats worth of butter, but those eating walnuts averaged more like 31 grams–7 or 8 pats of butter. In  Fat Burning Via Arginine , I explore one theory as to why this may happen (and where arginine can be found in our diet). Source It may also be the flavonoids, phytonutrients found in nuts as well as citrus, berries, red onions, beans, green tea, grapes, and cocoa, that may boost our metabolism enough to significantly slim our waistline. Based on what kind of evidence? I showcase a study done on purple grape juice in my video  Fat Burning Via Flavonoids . Just like nuts are calorically dense yet don’t seem to cause much weight gain, Welch’s was hoping that the same would be found for their grape juice. They had people guzzle down 2 cups a day for three months. Keep in mind that Welc...

How many calories should I burn a day to lose weight?

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From my experience a lot of people hesitate to even try and lose weight because they don’t know from where to start. They know that they should go on a diet and exercise regime but the lack of measurable goals creates uncertainty and this leads to failure before to even begin! To bypass this problem and have clear goals on what you want to achieve, you can start your weight loss process by doing some simple calorie calculations. By calculating how many calories you should be eating per day and how many calories you should be burning per day, you can have a better picture about your daily calorie needs and a rough estimate as to when you will be able to reach your ideal weight. Before getting into the mathematical part let me explain some basic weight loss concepts that will help you understand what these numbers mean. You do not have to keep a pen and paper because our daily calorie calculator will do the hard part. When do you lose weight ? There are many factors that affect how ...