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What are some fat burning foods(foods which take more calories to digest than they add on, or foods that will stimulate the metabolism to burn calories). Plz give me as many as you can think of.
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Foods that contribute to weight loss, known as fat burning foods. You always need to diet, when losing weight. Losing weight requires a fully commitment that is not always easy. You need to replace the bad foods, with the fat burning …
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I started working out 9 days ago. so far my work out consist of 300 sit ups (on my slant-board), 10 mins using my iso7x bar, 5 mins using my abb roller, and 5 mins using an arm trainer(it builds the forearm). i need a list of healthy foods that either burn fat or build muscle.
Josh,
Foods don’t do those things.
Sustained activity like your workout burn fat when all your other energy stores are gone. Eating a healthy balance diet with protein, not too many carbs, and lots of fresh fruit and veg is the perfect fuel to help the body build muscle in response to your workouts.
To learn all about this nutrition stuff, find a copy of the "Nutrition Almanac". It is a great book.
Learn new workouts and different routines at the link below. They also have this really cool section called Eat this-Not that that guides you through your fast food or eating out choises.
Hi all,
Recently, I began doing the Insanity workout in order to get lean and get ready to go off to college (hopefully in Florida, meaning lots of beaches and bathing suits). I’ve been doing the workout for about a week and a half, and I’ve noticed that I’ve actually gained a pretty big amount of weight since starting.
I’ve been following the diet guide as closely as I can (always fat-free foods, measuring/weighing everything, following the meal plans, etc.,). I also did the calorie calculator, so I know how many calories I need when working out. But somehow my weight has gone up from 118-121 (it fluctuates, but that’s the usual range) to about 125… As stated before, I’ve followed the nutrition guide closely and kept my own food journal, so I know I’ve been eating right. I’ve also pushed myself pretty hard during the workouts, and I’m always sweating and exhausted at the end, so I know I worked out hard enough to burn some major calories. So I’m just wondering why the weight went up by 4 pounds? My clothes don’t fit any differently so I don’t think it’s muscle weight.. My jeans have gotten a *tiny* bit more loose around the waist, but otherwise there’s not much difference.
Some background information to help: I’m 17, female, almost 5′5, and moderately active. I’m not skinny, but I’m not chubby either, I have an average build, and my weight is pretty evenly distributed. I try to eat about 1500 to 1700 calories a day, and before doing Insanity I’ve done P90X and ran on the X-country team at school. To prepare for the Insanity program, I started running 30 minutes on the treadmill at a fast pace 3 days a week, and did body weight exercises.
I don’t have any health problems (no thyroid issues, so that’s checked off the list). The only possible guess I can come up with is that at one point I was eating very little (about 1200 calories) for about 2 years, and now the larger portions are catching up with me. The thing is, I tried to gradually raise the number of calories so that my body would take it better (I knew the way I was eating before wasn’t a good long-term solution, so I worked to change it), so the sudden weight increase just has me worried a bit. Any ideas? Did anyone else have this problem? Is this much weight gain normal at the beginning of the workout? I never got this much weight gain before, and usually I would lose it in about a week when I start a new workout.
Thanks a lot in advance, and sorry for the absurd amount of things I wrote, just figured the more detail I give, the easier an accurate answer would be. 
I have recently started the insanity workout myself and it is a very difficult workout. There are a lot of plyometric exercises in the program. My guess is that the high impact exercises you are performing is building muscle and that is causing your weight gain. In people that do not have a solid muscle base to begin with (beginners and women who have never worked out) should expect to put on muscle weight. The good news is that this added muscle will raise your metabolic rate and cause you to actually lose weight and look better in the long run. Give it a little more time and you should see the weight comes back off, or at least makes you look better due to added muscle. Good luck
Each day is 45min-1 hour of hard weight training- 4-5x a week
30-40 minutes of cardio- 4-5x a week
calories: I’m 160 pounds. eat 2100, workout burns 550-650 caloires.
this is for fat loss.
On non workout days I increase calories to about 3000 for rebuilding a bulking up the muscle.
good approach or bad? I’ve had seen some muscle gain, but fat percentage is same.
Let’s find out.
30-40 minutes or cardio. I’ll assuming running at a 9 min/mile clip so thats about 4 miles in a typical run, which is 500 calories for someone about 160 pounds. And hour of lifting 4-5 times per week is good for about 200-300 calories per hour so we’ll say thats 250 calories per weightlfiting session. For someone of your height BMR is probably around 1800 calories per day.
Therefore on a typical day you’re burning about 1800 + (500 * .7) + (250 * .7) calories = 2350, and we’ll add 200 for daily general activity. So you’re typical day you’re burning 2500 or so calories. Now you eat 2100 about 4 times per week, and 3000 about 3 times per week. Weekly calories is 17400/7 = 2485 cal/day.
As you can see you can see you’re essentially at about the break even point for calories. Consequently you won’t lose any weight because 15 calories a day is a pound of weight loss about every 230 days.
The problem here is in you’re approach, you want to GAIN muscle and lose FAT. These two do not work together. Think about it, to gain muscle you obviously would have to gain weight, if you want another pound of muscle you need another pound of weight. To lose fat, you have to lose weight, 1 pound of fat loss is a body weight change of 1 pound.
You might be tempted to say "okay, whats the problem, I’ll lose a pound of fat and gain a pound of muscle, this keeps my body at the break even point of my caloric intake."
Unfortunately this is not how it works. To build muscle you NEED a caloric surplus. Think of it this way, you have to lay down new protein in the myofibrils of the muscle to increase their size making muscle bigger. If you have a caloric deficit, where are those calories coming from, you’re body has to take every available but of energy and put it towards it BMR to perform your neccesary body functions, nothing is left over to build muscle. What’s worse, lean muscle is easier to break down than fat, so the first thing the body tries to break down when you’re in a caloire deficit is muscle. This is why you weight training while dieting, you’re body goes to break down muscle, but because of the weight training the body then holds on to the muscle because it says "hey wait, we need this".
For similar reasons you can’t lose fat on a caloric surplus. The only way fat is lost is when the body uses it up for energy. Well, fat is the longest and most difficult macronutrient to break down, so if you’re giving the body all the calories it needs in the form of pre-digested carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, it isn’t going to go to the adipocytes and start using the fat stored in them.
It’s best to concentrate on one or the either. Either cut down all the fat you want with dieting (while working out to prevent lean muscle loss), and then start building back up with a 250-500 calorie/day surplus. Or start with that surplus, build more muscle, and then cut it all back down and get lean. Thats the typical weight trainging cycle. Bulk (gain a bunch of muscle and some fat), then cut (lose that gained fat while preserving as much muscle as possible), then repeat.
Training in that middle zone won’t do much of either for you. You certainly won’t lose weight and its not conductive to muscle building. You might gain strength and increase your glycogen stores (more glycogen adds weight, as does the water that is stored with glycogen) but you won’t be gaining muscle.
Going down the road to eating healthier is a great choice and you might be looking for the best choices for fat burning foods. You can eat well and not feel deprived while you are learning to make good choices and learn to burn fat. …
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