| Since I'm an Irvine Personal trainer, I'm asked for | | | | whole-wheat pasta for dinner instead of regular |
| advice on how to get rid of body fat all the time. | | | | pasta, can make a big difference on your |
| Really, there are hundreds of strategies you might | | | | waistline. |
| employ to achieve this goal, but for my clients' | | | | Eat a Lot of Fiber - Fiber doesn't just fill you up |
| sake, I like to keep things simple and really basic. I | | | | better than other foods, it also slows the |
| think the number one fitness killer is confusion, | | | | absorption of glucose into your bloodstream, |
| and direct and simple advice is really all anyone | | | | which means less of the food you eat will be |
| needs to get trim. Here are some the greatest | | | | stored as fat. It also decreases fat absorption in |
| tips that you can use to adjust your own diet or | | | | your bloodstream, making more effective use out |
| fitness plan to achieve your maximum fat burning | | | | of the foods you eat every day. What high fiber |
| potential. | | | | foods should you eat? Pears perhaps contain the |
| Keep Your Cardio High Intensity - You may have | | | | highest amount of fiber of any fruit, with 5.1 |
| heard from various sources that the best cardio | | | | grams per serving. The next time you feel like a |
| for fat burning is low intensity, because it burns a | | | | burrito, consider making it with black beans, which |
| higher percentage of fat and a smaller percentage | | | | can contain a whopping fifteen grams of fiber per |
| of other sources. The problem with this is that | | | | cup. For dinner, you might try some whole-wheat |
| low intensity cardio, such as walking, burns calories | | | | pasta, which has about six grams of fiber per dry |
| so slowly that you would have to spend several | | | | cup. |
| times the amount of time doing it to get the | | | | Get Your Daily Dose of Calcium- Various studies |
| same effectiveness of high intensity cardio. As an | | | | have shown that diets that are high in calcium |
| Irvine Personal Trainer, I am always looking for | | | | result in greater fat loss. |
| ways that my clients can get the most results in | | | | Most people when they hear "calcium," |
| the least amount of time, and low intensity cardio | | | | automatically think of milk. But really, there are |
| just doesn't cut it when it comes to shedding | | | | tons of ways you can get more calcium in your |
| body fat quickly. Instead, go for a thirty-minute | | | | diet. A naval orange for example, contains about |
| high intensity jog | | | | fifty-six milligrams of calcium. A cup of canned |
| Stick to Whole Wheat and Whole Grains - Whole | | | | chickpeas contains about seventy-seven. A cup of |
| wheat and whole grains help regulate your insulin | | | | boiled navy beans contains, 128 milligrams, which |
| levels, which leads to faster weight loss. A study | | | | even eclipses the amount found in a typical glass |
| published in the American Journal of Clinical | | | | of milk, which is about ninety-six milligrams. |
| Nutrition, which collected data on the diets of | | | | Of course, these tips are designed only to |
| 74,000 women, showed that women who ate | | | | enhance a solid diet and exercise routine for |
| primarily whole wheat and whole grains for the | | | | maximum fat burning. I know from exercise as |
| carbohydrate sources consistently weighed less | | | | an Irvine Personal Trainer that sometimes the |
| than those who ate primarily refined grains (such | | | | smallest tweak can yield the biggest results, but |
| as white bread, and white pasta.) Simple | | | | nothing can replace consistently eating well and |
| substitutions, such as having wheat bread in your | | | | spending a couple hours in the gym every week. |
| sandwich instead of sourdough bread, or having | | | | |