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Food plan for weight loss

Incorporate these 3 tactics into your food plan and accelerate your weight loss.

You are what you eat. A large part of losing weight lies in your diet; approximately 80% of it.

That is why people can lose weight by just swapping foods and not exercising. The rest should come from exercise to expend excessive calories eaten.

But there is more to just eating the right foods when it comes to losing weight. You also need to keep the insulin spikes in your blood in check. As you may already know, too much insulin is counterproductive for weight loss.

So how do I combat the release of too much insulin to prevent insulin spikes and help your weight loss battle?

The first thing you can do is have regular meals and not skip any of them. When your body tells you I have to eat (usually when your stomach starts to complain), eat. Period. Whether it is inconvenient or not, always carry food, and eat whenever and wherever you have to. Just don’t overeat! Eat small meals, often during the day.

The second thing you can do is to eat complex carbohydrates before having simple carbs. This will prevent sugars landing in an empty stomach, being taken up immediately in your bloodstream, and getting those insulin spikes.

A secondary trick to the second method is adding fat to your food. By ingesting a small amount of fat along with carbs you can slow down the process of food being processed by your body and nutrients being taken up too quickly into the bloodstream; again preventing those insulin spikes.

You need to know what types of fats to eat, though, because there are bad fats and good fats, and there are fats that help you burn fat. You want to combine the latter with the carbs you eat.

In summary:

1. Eat 6-8 smaller meals every day rather than 3 larger meals for slow energy release during the day.
2. Eat complex carbs before simple carbs.
3. Add a small amount of fat to the food you eat. Know how to distinguish the good fats from the bad fats, and choose the fat burning fats.

Good luck in your journey of taming your weight gains.