Every item of food you put in your mouth contains calories. If you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight.

Some foods, like a piece of chocolate cake slathered with chocolate icing, are high in calories, and take a while to burn off. Other foods, like lettuce, are low in calories, and can be burned off faster.

Your body is always burning calories, even if you’re sitting still and doing nothing. But being physically active helps you burn calories faster.

So, what are the foods that burn fat fast?

Catabolic foods burn more calories than they contain. For example, an apple contains around 80 or 90 calories. But the energy your body uses to metabolize the apple burns about 180 calories. So, when you eat an apple, your body burns off up to 100 calories more than you consumed.

Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?

Here is a list of high catabolic foods.

• Apples


• Asparagus


• Blackberries


• Blueberries


• Broccoli


• Cantaloupe


• Carrots


• Celery


• Cucumbers


• Eggplant


• Grapefruit


• Lemons


• Lettuce


• Limes


• Oranges


• Pears


• Peppers


• Pineapple


• Plums


• Radishes


• Raspberries


• Sweet Potatoes


• Strawberries


• Tomatoes


• Watermelon


• Zucchini

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Over the years a lot of myths have been created around this topic causing people to ignore the basics of weight loss. Consistent hard work and a diet plan involving lifestyle change are the only real ways that you will loose inches and keep in shape. Quick fix diet pills and short term diet plans should be avoided as even if they do work in the short term there is normally a rebound effect when you stop the pill or the plan resulting in weight gain.

Your diet should be varied, with regular small meals (4 to 6) spread throughout the day. There are plenty of ideas available at flattenmystomach.com. You should also consume plenty of water as part of your diet as this helps to suppress your appetite and increases your basal metabolic rate. Drinking cold water burns more calories as your body has to use energy to increase the waters temperature to match your internal temperature. To calculate how much water you need, divide your weight in half. You should drink that many ounces of water each day. If you weigh 180 pounds, you should drink 90 ounces of water.

Exercise is another important factor when it comes to weight loss. To lose weight you need to get your body to burn stored fat as an energy source. This can be achieved with exercise. The more intense the exercise the more fat that will be burned as a result. Your body will only begin burning stored energy once the energy freely available has been used up and this usually takes between 20 & 30 minutes. Overtraining is a danger that everyone should be made aware of and anyone starting an exercise program should consult a trained individual, normally their doctor or personal trainer before beginning.

Both aerobic and anaerobic exercise should be used to achieve your goals with a balance between the two. Examples of aerobic exercises are running, rowing, cross training etc. Resistance training falls into the category of anaerobic exercise. The reason for this combination is that resistance training will help build muscle. Muscle cells burn calories more quickly than fat cells and you should aim to increase your muscle mass if you want to lose body fat.

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Readers have said about the book Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, that the articles included (some of the author?s other writings) are inspiring and provide a whole new look to the idea of developing unstoppable fitness motivation, basic health principles, and combining diet and exercise.

Sacrifice is something most people have come to accept when they get into a program like this, but the book Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle focuses on the methods that let you make sure you?re still enjoying life while staying healthy and thin. I always laugh how some obese people who refuse to diet or exercise often criticize certain weight loss methods by saying ?That?s not a healthy diet.? It?s true, there are some hard-core diets that starve your body and rob you of the important nutrition you need to stay healthy, but the nutritional approach discussed in the book Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle provides all of the necessary variety of the right foods so you can stay healthy.

The book Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is being commonly regarded as a ?must? for anyone who has tried out a lot of the conventional diets, books, and exercise programs, and doesn?t seem to make any headway. When you consider the significant gains that people have been seeing from this, it definitely makes it something worth looking into.

A friend of mine followed the book Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, and saw some pretty incredible results. Although he was in a great mood, he was pretty mad that he had wasted so much money on supplements and pills in the past, and that all turned out to be unnecessary. But as they say, better late than never.

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I will give you a hint, it does not involve any infomercial products, fat burning pill, doing thousands of crunches, fad diet, or long bouts on a cardio machine.

If you really want to burn abdominal fat, you need to have the right type of diet and the right type of exercise program.

Sounds simple doesn’t it?

The truth is, most people know this but still go for the special infomercial gimmicks or the overhyped “lose 10lbs in 2 days” programs they see in the magazines at the grocery store.

This article will show you some simple steps you can take with exercise that will help you to burn abdominal fat and get those sexy abs you dream of.

1. Metabolism is the key to abdominal sexiness.

If you really want to burn abdominal fat, then doing hundreds of stomach exercises is not going to help.

Why?

Because doing tons of crunches does not work enough muscle mass needed to raise your metabolism and help your body burn more calories.

In order to burn fat via a fast metabolism, you need to workout your entire body! This includes doing total body workouts 2-3 days per week where you are really cranking up the intensity.

If you do some high intensity total body strength training 2-3 times per week, your body will have to respond by adding more lean muscle mass. This will help to burn abdominal fat, burn butt fat, burn thigh fat, etc.

To put it simply, the more muscle mass you have the more fat you will burn!

Some great exercises to help burn fat are squats, lunges, seated row, lat pulldown, pushups, incline DB press, and DB squat, curl, and press.

2. Persistence is the most important thing you can have when going for a six pack.

This problem that most people have when they try to burn abdominal fat is that they start off doing great for about 2 weeks and then go back to their old ways.

If this sounds like you, then it is important to realize that once you can be persistent enough to follow through with an exercise and diet program the sooner you will see some killer results.

The most common problem I see with people who want to lose fat is that they try to do it by shear willpower. It is great to be determined, but if you try to force yourself into being successful then you are setting yourself up for failure.

One of the best strategies there is to burn abdominal fat is not go it alone. If you can workout with a friend who is equally as motivated as you are, then the entire process will see so much more enjoyable.

In conclusion, you can burn abdominal fat if and only if you have the right tools and you take action to using them! If you really think you have what it takes, check out the links below for some great information for how to reach your goals.

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