3 Tips For Healthy Meal Plans to Lose Fat Quickly

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By Howard Standring

When it comes to losing fat and losing it quickly then the first thing you must consider is your diet. Granted exercise is important but diet is the key to maintaining your weight properly. With this in mind here are 3 practical yet effective tips that you can use when choosing healthy meal plans for your new fat loss diet.

1. Make sure to include fat in your in nearly all your healthy meal plans. What I hear you cry shouldn't I be eating less fat? Well yes you should but only the saturated and evil hydrogenated variety. You should have more of what are classed "healthy fats" in most of your meals. Having a decent amount of this type of fat in your meals is important for maintaining adequate levels of fat burning and muscle building hormone levels in your body and can also keep your appetite stable.
If you don't know already the best healthy dietary fats are found in raw nuts, seeds, egg yolks (from organic free range eggs), avocados, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil,organic meats and fish.
If you need help controlling how much you eat at mealtimes get a handful of nuts (my personal favourite are walnuts) and eat them about 30 minutes before dining. This will take the edge off your hunger and make you less food while providing some healthy nutrition in the form of protein, fibre and healthy fats.

2. Look to include high quality proteins in all your healthy meal plans. When I speak to people and go through a food diary with them the nutrient most people under consume is protein. Now you don't need to go protein crazy but I would recommend 1g of protein per kilo of bodyweight. Getting sufficient quality proteins will assist in building lean muscle (great when you are working out with the weights) and controls your bodies blood sugar and insulin levels better by helping to slow the breakdown of ingested carbohydrates.

When it comes to protein try to go for the best quality possible. So if you can select proteins from meat, fish and dairy sources that are have been come from organic backgrounds.
Another benefit of more protein in your diet is that you actually eat less due to its appetite suppression qualities. Growing up I was a real meat and potatoes man and I couldn't imagine any meal without carbohydrates. However I have found by adding just a little more proteins to my meal I can take away the carbs and not miss them at all which has been a significant factor in me getting to low levels of body fat.

3. That brings me nicely to my last tip and that is to reduce the amount of processed carbohydrates in the form of refined grain-based starches and refined sugars in your healthy meal plans. From my own personal experience and from the many people I have worked with one of the main factors that sabotages fat loss efforts is excessive consumption of these types of carbohydrates.
Therefore aim to minimize the quantity of calories you eat from grains in cereals, breads, pasta etc and cut out all those fruit juices, which are basically just sugar. If you can focus your on getting the majority of your carbohydrate intake from fruits and vegetables I am confident you will be able to manage your weight and lose fat more easily.

Apply these tips to your healthy eating plans and I'm willing to bet that you'll have a leaner and more energised body in no time.

I live in Marbella, Spain and work as a Personal Trainer. I have a real passion for health and fitness and coach men and women on how to get a lean attractive body no matter their age or level of fitness.
Visit my blog http://www.energiafitness.com/ where I share all my tips, ideas and thoughts about losing fat, getting fit and staying young.

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