4 Foods That Turn Fat Burning On Low

If you’re on a fat-loss mission, one thing that you must keep in the back of your mind at all times is the type of foods you are eating. Most people already know the importance of getting the right number of calories into their day, but few realize just how important that actual foods are that they eat.

Eat the wrong foods and you can actually turn down the dial on fat burning, essentially sabotaging your progress.

Here are 4 foods that you should be avoiding at all costs.

Deep Fried Anything

If the food is deep fried, step away. Most people realize that these are not to be included on a healthy diet plan, but they don’t realize just how bad they are.

Not only do you often have carbs, which will spike blood glucose levels, but then you also add fat into the picture, which gets quickly transported to your butt, thighs, and lower abs when blood sugar is high.

Not a good combination.

High Sugar Breakfast Bars

Speaking of sugar, that morning breakfast bar you start your day with? That’s another one that has to go.

These ‘fruit’ based breakfast bars are simply too high in processed carbs, too low in protein, and contain no healthy fats at all.  Not an ideal mix to get your day off to a good start.

Not only that, but they’ll more than likely make you hungrier mid-morning than if you had skipped them entirely.

Opt for some good old fashioned eggs or oatmeal ( oats are best post-workout )

Processed Snack Foods

Likewise with processed snack foods.  Granola bars, crackers, low fat chips – anything of the like is all going to make reaching your goals that much harder.

Upon digestion, these foods immediately cause a surge of insulin to enter the body, which then takes up all that glucose and turns it into fat quickly.

Upon doing so, you are then left very hungry and irritable, and will more than likely reach for more processed foods.

This makes sticking with your diet next to impossible and soon, weight gain will follow.

Sugary Alcoholic Drinks

Finally, don’t overlook how bad sugary alcoholic drinks can be.  Not only is alcohol bad in itself as it immediately turns off fat burning as soon as you consume it, but in addition to that, with the added sugar you now have in the picture, that sugar will get converted to body fat immediately as well.

While a glass of wine with dinner once or twice a week typically isn’t a huge issue, if you’re downing cocktails every Friday after a long hard work-week, you can count on one thing: a stall in fat loss progress.

So keep these things in mind and make sure they aren’t making an appearance in your plan. If they are, you now know why you are not seeing the results you were hoping for. 

Stay solid

Lochs :-)