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.
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 :)