Healthy Snacks To Promote Fat Loss

One of the best unkept secrets today in the fitness industry is the hard won knowledge that eating 5 or 6 small meals over the course of a day is a much better strategy for getting lean and slim than the traditional "3 squares" a day (which for many people, turns into just 2 large meals because they don't eat any breakfast.)

Yes, skipping meals might seem like a logical way to cut calories and lose pounds, but in fact it works the opposite way to what you might expect since it generally leads to deprivation and overindulgence. It may sound counter-intuitive, but the far better strategy is to eat regularly and more frequently (within reason) to achieve your optimal weight.

One of the problems associated with missing a meal is that it can cause your blood sugar levels to decrease. This can predispose us to a pattern of increased eating as the body attempts to correct the dip in blood sugar. For instance, skipping breakfast is proven to cause fatigue, hamper metabolic rate, and increase food cravings elsewhere during the day. The combined effect can contribute to more food intake and, of course, a resultant weight gain.

Tips To Increase Your Metabolism

The easiest and most natural way to get your body to lose excess fat is by increasing your metabolism. Metabolism is the sum of all the processes the body uses to make, maintain and breakdown body mass and produce energy.

It is an indispensable part of a healthy fitness foundation. This foundation consists of regular exercise, healthy diet, proper mindset and a strong metabolism.

Differences in metabolism can be why two people on the same weight loss program have differing results. It can be extremely discouraging when you are following a program perfectly and still not losing weight like you desire or having the energy you need.

The basic principles of increasing your metabolism are nothing new, in fact they will sound like common sense. They involve proper diet, proper exercise and proper rest.

Turns Out The Best Weight Loss Diet Is A Healthy Diet

Try the following. Do a search in Google, or your favorite search engine, on the term "best weight loss diet". What you will see turn up is hundreds of links to diets, all claiming to be the best. Unfortunately, what many of these diets really do is starve you and your body from the kind of  proper nutritional diet, and the calories, needed to function properly.

Other dieting plans are only temporary fixes, so that as soon as you go back to your normal eating habits you put any weight that you lost right back on. Some of the worst of these plans involve the so-called detox diets that force you to completely starve your body of all nutrients for certain periods of up to 7 - 10 days.

Well, I guess if you are looking for a really quick fix, and are simply trying to fit into a dress for an evening, then one of these diets might just work for you - for a very short duration. But most of these diets, as you can probably see by now, are dangerous to your health.

Diets that do not attempt to remove food from your plate, and which include plenty of nutrients and minerals, are in general good for you. Healthy diets resemble more an eating plan, or a lifestyle change, and do not really appear to be diets at all, even if we still use the term diet to describe them.