Thursday, May 14, 2009

What you need to know about calorie shifting

A lot of debate is going about calorie shifting. It's one of the new approaches to burn stomach fat.

The method adopted in this system is to burn fat using the body’s metabolism. Gone are those days when you had to starve to lose water weight. Shifting calorie is an effective method of losing weight

Infact it has been found that starving leads to some harmful effects on the body. The rate of metabolism slows down as we starve to reduce our weight. As a result the process of gaining weight is also slowed down. The entire body goes into a protection mode.

Generally our diet consists of some constituents such as proteins, vitamins, minerals carbohydrates and fats. These are required by our body to build our body and to maintain it. When we starve the calorie burning process slows down. And fat supplies more calories.

This tricks the body to increase the metabolic process by increasing the baseline calorific value. On the contrary if we take more calories for about two or three days our body system would then recognize a high calorie state and speed up the process.

It is not necessary to cut down on our diet to reduce weight, infact you can have four meals a day with a low calorie diet, use good belly fat exercises ,and still reduce your weight effectively.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Cool snacks for weight loss

Snacking as such does not enjoy a good status but it is really good and helpful if you are trying to lose water weight, but it should be done in the right way. By dividing your day into three meals or two snacks or five small meals a day will help to preserve enough energy, your blood sugar level will be even and the metabolic rate will be elevated.

If you eat the right snacks it will help to keep away form splurge eating as well as provide you with the right amount of calories. So here are some of the top ten snacks that will help you to burn stomach fat.

You could work on slicing an apple with 1 tablespoon of unsalted peanut butter. 2 oatcakes and 2 tablespoon of hummus will also work. You could also mix ½ cup plain low fat yogurt, 1 tablespoon honey and a banana to get some pounds knocked off. Chopped vegetables that include carrots, celery stalks, cauliflower and a French dressing also works for sure!

As you can see, none of these dishes take time in making. You can make all of them at your home, and it doesn’t cost you a lot either. So if you want to try out snacks try out one of these in between meals and see how you can ward off hunger pangs and help to reduce your weight and keep you fit and keep your energy levels high.

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