Natural Fat Burning Foods

If you want to burn fat faster than by simply changing your diet, you can add fat burning exercises into your routine.  Regular exercise in addition to consuming fat burning foods can really accelerate your weight loss.

Now a lot of people think that fat burning exercises have to be long 2 hour sessions that they must perform every day in order to get the weight loss benefits.  Thankfully this is completely false. In fact you can easily get great results with just 20-30 minute workouts 3-4 times per week. Another common misconception is that the only exercises that will give good and lasting results are complicated in nature and difficult to perform. Well despite what you might see advertised throughout the media, fat burning exercises don’t at all have to be complicated in order to be effective. In fact, in many cases, the simpler the better.

Fat burning exercises can be broken down into two main forms of exercise: aerobic interval training exercises and strength training exercises.  Both forms of exercise can be extremely beneficial for increasing overall fat burn and the best part is each of them are relatively simple and easy to perform.

Aerobic Interval Training Exercises
For aerobic interval training exercises, you basically want to perform short intervals of intense exercise.  By performing these short bursts of exercise, you will increase your heart rate and boost your metabolism, which in turn burns fat.  The most exciting thing about these short interval exercises however is that your metabolic rate will not only rise during the exercises but will stay high for up to 24 hours post workout.  In other words, your body will continue to burn calories and fat at a much faster rate throughout the entire day and night of your workout!  This alone is what make these types of fat burning exercises so effective.

Example Interval Training Routine:

• 5 minute warm up (brisk walk).
• 45-60 seconds of intense exercise (sprint, fast jog).
• 2 minutes of moderate exercise (brisk walk, jog).
• Repeat intense and moderate exercises 5 – 10 times.
• 5 minute cool down (walk).

Strength Training Exercises
Strength training exercises are also a great way to expedite the fat burning process. By building up your lean muscle mass, your metabolism will begin to change as your body increases it’s caloric burn rate to support these muscles. In essence you will be burning more calories throughout the day even when at rest giving you an added advantage for burning fat. Aim to perform these exercises 3-4 times per week.

Some excellent strength training exercises include:

• Bench Press
• Squats
• Chin-ups
• Lunges
• Pull-Downs
• Push-Ups

There’s been a lot of talk lately about negative calories foods and how eating them help you rapidly lose weight and burn fat.

What Are Negative Calorie Foods?
Negative calorie foods are essentially foods which require more energy from the body to digest them (aka thermic effect) then the food actually provides, thus a negative calorie effect. With this theory, you could potentially eat large quantities of these negative calorie foods, feel full and yet lose weight fast. Sounds good doesn’t it?

Do Negative Calorie Foods Exist?
Actually there are no foods that have been scientifically proven to be truly negative in calories so negative calorie food is a bit of an urban myth. Why? Well, the main reason they don’t actually exist is because our body is just such an amazingly efficient digestive machine. Even celery that is often quoted as possessing negative calories actually only requires 10% of the energy it provides in order to be digested by our bodies.

Low Calorie Foods
Despite the fact that negative or zero calorie foods do not exist, there are a number of extremely low calorie foods that do and eating them as the bulk of your diet can have excellent weight loss results. Though these foods do not provide negative calories per se, in the end they don’t actually have to in order to still be effective in fat loss. Why? The main reason for this is your body has to burn calories just to stay alive! Did you know for example that at least 1000 calories per day are burned just by sitting and breathing. When you take into account your regular routine of every-day tasks and depending on your gender and weight, you’ll be up to at least 2000 calories. Add in some brisk walks or aerobic exercise and you can be burning well over 2500 or even 3000 calories easily. So even if you’re eating low calorie foods versus no calorie foods, you can still burn a lot of fat and lose weight quickly.

List of Low Calorie Foods
Here are some low calorie foods to add into your diet. These foods are loaded with vitamins and minerals and yet contain very few calories.