Burn Fat By Increasing Protein?

This is fundamentally true and I will explain how this happens!!

Now there are a lot of reasons why people burn fat, but one of the biggest ways to jump start your metabolism is to increase your protein intake.  If you do this and your metabolism is increased then you will burn more calories.  How can this be, you might ask?  Let me explain.  If you increase your protein intake, then you increase the ability of your body to build muscle.  This is due to the fact that protein is the building block of muscle.  So why do you want more muscle, you might ask?  Well the more muscle you have will in turn increase the ability of your body to burn fat.  Therefore when you exercise you have more muscles involved and they need more calories to do the exercise and if you stick to the calories you need in your diet then your body will turn to the fat for energy.  Consequently, you burn more fat.  Nice idea, huh.

You might think that any protein will do and for a beginning dieter this is true.  As the sudden change in lifestyle for a beginner will cause a drop in pounds quickly.  However, after you have been exercising for awhile you may develop a plateau effect and therefore stop burning fat.  At that point, you need to change your protein to very lean cuts of meat.  Yes, that means less steak and more chicken and fish.
Furthermore, you may be wondering how much protein you should eat?  There are many different ideas about this, but I stick to the 0.5gm to 1gm of protein per pound of body weight per day.  I know it seems like a lot, but trust me if you calculate this amount of protein and then fill the rest of your caloric need with vegetables and low glycemic carbs (that is the non-white carbs, see my earlier post) you will BURN BABY BURN!!
The next thing you need to do is calculate the amount of calories you need per day depending on your lifestyle and activity level and whether or not you are going to exercise.  I can try to duplicate the calorie counters, and someday I may try to on my blog, but the best one I have seen and used is through Livestrong.com, it is free so check it out.  No endorsement here either, by the way.

Finally, just stick to your game plan of diet and exercise.  Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to lose the weight you want as fast as you can.  Remember healthy weight loss is 1-2 lbs per week.  Let this blog help you in all the ways possible with exercise tips, workouts, diets, etc... Check out my review of metabolic cooking at http://www.healthyweightlossasap.com/p/metabolic-cooking.html for more ideas on what foods you can pair up to kick in your fat burning furnace for Healthy Weight Loss ASAP.

For what it's worth,
Dr. B