Burn More Fat with Cyclical Feeding

Editor's Note:  Would you like to burn more fat simply by changing the way you eat? Jon Benson explains how to create a meal plan to burn more fat!

Most have heard of the concept of cycling your calories in order to burn more fat. For example, you can take in a few hundred more calories for a few days, then a few hundred less. If your baseline calorie intake is, for example, 2,000 calories, then you would eat 1,500 for a few days and then 2,500 for a few days.

The end result is the same amount of calories, but you burn more fat by tricking your system into believing it is not "on a diet". Diets shut down the metabolism. This helps prevent that from happening, keeping your T4 (thyroid) levels nice and optimal.

If you have not heard of that...well, you get two tips today!

My take on this is slightly different: cyclical feeding. This is where you eat more of one macronutrient (protein or carbohydrate) for a given day, perhaps
two days, and then cycle back.

Here's an example that works very well.

Consume your normal healthy diet -- for more on how to eat to burn fat, visit Fit Over 40, but every other day, say Monday, Wednesday and Friday, you change it up.

What you do is consume some protein...about 20 grams or so, assuming you do not have gout or liver/kidney issues...15 minutes before consuming your
three main meals. Eat two snacks of raw foods like veggies or apples and nuts in-between your main meals.

Then, at your main meals, consume half the normal portions of protein and about 1/3 more carbohydrate.

This trick works on multiple levels. First, you have set your body up to blunt the larger carb intake with a bit of protein before-hand. Second, you will tend to eat less simply by eating protein by itself 20 minutes prior to your main meal. Finally, even if you do eat more, you will return to eating less the next day -- and that cycles your calories as well as your macronutrients.

Keep your body guessing - and have fun with it!
 

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