Fat Burning Diets

     There are various reasons for being fat or overweight, such as overeating or even owing to some medical conditions. Being on the bigger side, you must have tried out different diets and exercises over the years. There are diets and diets, and now there are also various fat burning diets. However, like with any diets, with fat burning diets, too, you have to be consistent and patient to carry it through till you meet your desired weight. Fat burning is the burning of the fat in your body by certain foods combined with certain forms exercises.

Therefore, to start on a food burning diet, you need to first decide what foods and exercise suits your body best. Additionally, start eating five small meals a day or three meals and two snacks (if the first option does not agree with you) instead of two or three. Are you ready to start a fat burning diet? If so, then here are a few tips that can help you start:

     Fruits: Citrus fruits, such as oranges, limes, lemons, grapefruits and tangerines, contain a high level of Vitamin C which not only helps in burning the fat stored in your body, but also controls your cholesterol level. Owing to this quality, you could have citrus fruits with every meal and also as a snack. Additionally, apples and most of the berries contain pectin which helps in burning the fat.

     Vegetables: Asparagus contain alkaloids and a chemical (attacks cells and burn fat); beets contain iron and chlorine (washes away body fats);brussel sprouts contain certain minerals (cleans the cells in your body, hence washes out the body fat); cabbage contains sulphur and iodine (washes your stomach and intestines and burns the fat in your stomach); carrots contain carotene that also changes to Vitamin A in your intestines (flushes out the fat in your body); celery contain high concentration of calcium, magnesium and iron (burns and flushes out you fat); cucumber contains sulphur and silcon (stimulates and loosens fat from cells); as also garlic, horseradish, lettuce, onions, radishes and tomatoes, all of which contain fat burning properties.

     Exercises: Walking, jogging, running, tennis, cycling, and swimming are exercises that burns the fat in your body extremely fast. Try doing just one of the above-mentioned exercises for at least an hour everyday.

You have a variety of fruits, vegetables and exercises to form your own fat burning diet. You cannot just have fruits and vegetables and expect to lose weight without exercising. Choose wisely and rejoice in seeing the way fat melts away from your body.