Burn The Fat -- But Does That Mean Low Fat Eating?

Low fat. Low fat. Low fat. That's the cry! Look around. It looks like most people just get fatter and fatter and fatter, while trying hard to burn the fat by dieting. Is there something wrong with this picture?

Eat a low fat diet and you'll probably eat more carbohydrates. Then eating carbs causes high levels of sugars to move to the liver. Excess blood sugar is then burned as energy or stored as fat. The excess carbohydrates send blood sugar to the brain causing satisfaction with the food intake. That means you don't eat enough fats and proteins. You lose muscle mass and bone. Over time this cycle gives you less muscle, less dense bones and more fat. There ya go!

High levels of insulin in the bloodstream from a high carbohydrate diet makes you fat. If you eat more protein, more fat and fewer carbohydrates, you can lose body fat. Overeat carbohydrates and the resulting high insulin levels wreck your metabolism amd you get Type II Diabetes.

OK. So what about just "going on a diet" to lose weight fast? Here's the problem. Cut calories on a diet and what happens to the rate you burn up energy, your metabolism? It slows as you restrict calories.

What happens when you reach your goal weight or stop the diet because you're hungry?

Easy. You start eating again, right? But your metabolism is slower, right? So you right quick gain back the weight you lost.

The only way around this is to start gradually adding back food after a diet to match the lower metabolism. But... you can't do it. The other option to avoid getting fatter after a diet is to exercise more... tough to do.

Yo-yo diets make you fatter. They don't burn the fat.

What to do?

Eat a balanced diet with high quality fats and proteins with reduced carbohydrates. That's the key to fat burning and health. Avoid sugars, processed foods of all kinds and eat foods like our ancestors ate. Eat things you could pick or gather or hunt or fish or milk.

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