n a sense, any successful weight loss diet would be a fat burning diet. After all, losing pounds in the form of fat is what it’s all about, right? However, there are really two main types of diet plans being promoted as fat burning diets.
Diets that claim certain foods make you burn more calories than they provide have been around for at least 30 years. Grapefruit and celery are usually included and one can easily see why. A lot of work goes into eating those very low calorie foods. (Note: using celery as a vehicle for transporting ranch dressing negates any possible benefits.)
The second type of fat burning diet that has come on the scene targets the metabolic cycle. The idea is that you must avoid the starvation response that is triggered by low calorie diets, and stimulate the metabolism to keep the fat burning process going.
Alternating high and low calorie days is one way this is done. The traditional premise has been that to lose weight, you need to eat less and exercise more. This has resulted in many people attempting to lose weight by skipping meals, refusing to eat between meal times, and eating very low calorie diets. Many of these people are not getting much exercise, and who could blame them, without proper fuel, their energy levels could not possibly be good.
The idea of alternating calorie levels between high and low days is based on the idea that your metabolism functions on a primitive feast or famine level. When you have plenty of food, your body stores some fat in order to prepare for leaner times, but also burns calories to produce energy.
During times of famine, which a low-calorie diet simulates rather well, the metabolism slows down and is very conservative about using its energy stores. Fat is conserved and not burned.
Eating high calories, with the right nutritional content, gets the metabolism in high gear and then suddenly lowering caloric intake causes the body to burn fat when it has used up the newly consumed fuel.
Before the metabolism can adjust back down to conservation mode, the intake is raised and energy processing continues at the higher rate, thus burning stored fat the next time the intake is lowered. Try to pick a fat burning diet that encourages weight loss and high energy levels.
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