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If you are like many people you may have a broken fat burning and calorie burning furnace. Over the years you have gone on diets, gone off of diets, restricted calories and binged. You weight has gone down and you weight has gone up like a yo-yo. In the process you have busted your calories burning machine.

So what needs to happen is that you need to make a few repairs in order for your body to burn fat like it should. One of the ways to help stoke your fat burning furnace is to eat foods that provide a “thermal effect.” In other words, they help burn calories.

7 DAY BELLY BLAST DIET

What is the best fat burning class of nutrients? The competition is not even close. Protein wins hands down. Let me explain. When you consume food a certain percentage of the calories will be used just to process and digest the food. For fat that number is around 5% on average and for carbohydrates it is about 10%. However, for protein the percentage of calories burned to enable your body to process the food is nearly 30%. So let’s put that it terms of something that might make more practical sense. For every 1000 calories of fat that you consume you body will only use about 50 calories to digest and carbohydrates will use about 100 calories to process. Protein, on the other hand, will make your body work hard to process the food and will burn up to 300 calories. That is an incredible leg up when you are trying to lose weight and need to find little tricks to burn fat. It is almost like getting free calories that don’t count against you. I like the sound of that.

Now I am not suggesting that you no longer eat carbs and fats or that you need to build a chicken coop in your back yard to raise your own source of protein. But is you are like the average individual you eat way too many carbohydrates and not enough quality protein.

The trick is to blend good sources of protein in with some slow absorbing carbs (like high fiber foods) and a mixture of healthy fats (nuts, seeds, avocado, etc). This will begin to crank up your metabolism and stoke up the furnace of your fat burning machine.

The neat thing about all of this is that you don’t have to punish yourself and eat bland, boring and tasteless food. You can eat some great food and even food that you would have thought would be taboo. If you want to learn more about foods that help your burn fat and about how to prepare them to give you the biggest bang for your buck then check out the 7 Day Belly Blast Diet.