7 Tips To Make
Fat Burning Meals
My
name is Diana Keuilian, I’m the creator of Family Friendly Fat Burning Foods
and today I’d like to share with you my top 7 Tips To Make Fat Burning Meals.
Wouldn't
it be great if all your favorite comfort meals naturally promoted fat loss? I think that would be awesome.
My
old favorite comfort meals were fried fish tacos, fully-loaded veggie burritos,
angel hair pasta with mizithra cheese and cheese-smothered veggie burgers with
fries. Yummmmmmmm! Unfortunately these old favorites brought on rapid fat
storage.
Due
to my love of food, in my twenties I went from a size 4 to a size 12.
In
my frustration I tried portion control, and began to limit the amount of foods
that I ate. This began a yo-yo cycle of eating less food one day, more the
next, and never seeing the results I wanted.
Over
the past few years I've read countless books on nutrition and have finally
landed on the formula for creating meals that promote fat loss, and taste good
while doing it.
Oh
and this method of eating has effortlessly brought me back to that size 4 :)
This
is what I discovered...
Fat
Burning Tip #1) Focus On Protein
The base of a fat burning meal is
a healthy serving of quality, lean protein. Choose from organic, hormone-free
chicken, pork, beef, lamb, veal, fish or eggs.
No
wonder I was gaining weight! Most of my favorite meals had very little to do
with protein. After giving up meat at age 12, I spent the next 18 years as a
junk food vegetarian. Most of my meals were made up of processed grains and
sugar.
Why is protein so important?
Protein supports and fuels your lean tissues, namely your muscles, and does not
have an effect on blood sugar levels, which would promote fat storage.
Fat
Burning Tip #2) Ditch Grains and Refined Sugar
A fat burning meal does not contain
a serving of grains or starches. Yes, I realize that this goes against
everything that we have been taught or experienced with dinners. Most meals are
plated with a jumbo serving of noodles, pasta, potatoes, rice, has been breaded
or is served with bread, tortillas, chips or buns.
As I learned the hard way, these
carbs are more than we need, and end up being stored as fat. And, yes, it is
possible to create fat-burning dinners that satisfy even the hungriest
meat-and-potatoes members of your family.
This
was the hardest part for me to get used to. Grains and sugar are filled with
fat-promoting carbs, and as you saw above, my favorite meals were all carb-ed
out.
There's really no reason, other
than habit, to eat grains or sugar on a regular basis. Once I removed these
from my diet, and got out of the habit of eating them, I no longer craved or
even found my old favorites very appealing.
Fat
Burning Tip #3) Bring On The Veggies
After
you remove the grains and sugars from your meal, add a bunch of fiber-filled
veggies instead. One of my favorite things to do now when building a fat
burning meal is to get a bowl, add a few handfuls of organic spinach and
arugula, and then top it with protein and some cooked veggies. Add a light
homemade dressing and you're looking at the perfect, quick fat burning
meal.
Fiber-filled
veggies are important for many reasons in addition to the fiber. They are
filled with nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, all of which your
body needs. They are also very low in calories compared to the amount of
space that they take up in your stomach. So you'll get full faster on fewer
calories.
Fat
Burning Tip #4) Quality Ingredients
Ingredients
are the building blocks to a healthy meal so pay attention to the quality of
the ingredients you use. Fast food just isn’t going to cut it! Be willing to
spend a little more on the foods that you eat. Quality is much more important
that quantity.
When choosing meat look for
organic, antibiotic and hormone-free. Avoid processed meats, like lunchmeats,
as these contain potentially harmful additives and lots of salt. Also avoid highly
processed soy fake meats.
Choose
foods that are:
- Fresh, organic and seasonal
- Pronounceable ingredients
- Whole foods
Fat
Burning Tip #5) Use A Healthy Cooking Method
The
method in which you cook your meal determines how many calories, how much added
fat, and the number of nutrients that survive.
Don’t
prepare meals like this:
- Fried and battered
- Processed and packaged
- Doused with cream sauce
Choose
these cooking methods:
- Grilled
- Baked
- Broiled
- Steamed
Fat
Burning Tip #6) Cook With Coconut Oil
I used to always cook with vegetable oil, never
realizing how harmful it was to my fat loss efforts. Unfortunately most people
use harmful, unstable and fat promoting oils when they cook.
The good news is that coconut oil is an amazing,
healthy oil that not only tastes great but also helps promote fat loss. Among
its many benefits, coconut oil is stable, even at high temperatures. It’s
filled with lauric acid, which boosts the immune system and helps ward off
infections.
Best of all, coconut oil has been shown to increase
metabolism and thyroid activity, which boosts fat burning.
Fat
Burning Tip #7) Enjoy Dessert of Fresh Fruit
When is the last time that you bit
into a fresh, organic, perfectly ripe piece of fruit? Delicious, wasn’t it? I
used to overlook fruit as the perfect dessert that it is, and instead would eat
artificially flavored, cane sugar sweetened, processed desserts that encourage
rapid weight gain and declined health.
I’m not going to say that ice cream
and chocolate don’t taste awesome, because they do. But eating desserts like
that on a regular basis is one of the big reasons that I kept gaining weight
back in my twenties. By making the simple switch from refined sugar desserts to
desserts of organic, fresh fruit I was able to lose weight without feeling
deprived.
Let’s bring fruit back to its
rightful place as our favorite, most popular after-dinner sweet. Out with the
refined sugar and corn syrup and in with Nature’s sweetest gift…fresh fruit.
Hope that you have enjoyed these 7
Tips To Make Fat Burning Meals. I’m walking proof that this way of eating truly
delivers results without deprivation or boring, bland meals.
I love food WAY too much to give up
flavorful, delicious dinners, snacks and desserts. In fact, I’m so passionate
about creating fat burning foods that, for the first time ever, I’ve put all of
my best recipes and eating secrets together into a full Family Friendly Fat
Burning Meals program.
This system has over 100 of my
family’s favorite fat burning recipes – which I used to effortlessly reverse
the weight I had gained in my twenties. It’s tasty stuff like Chicken
Enchiladas, Baked Chicken Nuggets, Make-Your-Own Tacos, Healthy Brownies, Easy
Chocolate Chip Cookies and much, much more.
Here’s a page where you can learn
more about my Family Friendly Fat Burning Meals Program Click Here !
I’m excited to hear your fat loss
success story. Good luck, and enjoy all of those tasty recipes :)
