By now I’m sure you know that nutrition experts recommend eating healthy, high fiber and low sugar foods such as lean protein (lean beef, chicken, fish and whey protein), vegetables (broccoli, peppers, and greens), fruit (strawberries, blueberries), nuts (almonds, cashews and walnuts) and whole grains (oatmeal and multigrain bread).

Here are 6 nutrition principles that will serve you well throughout your fat loss journey.  Follow these guidelines, and you will become leaner than 95% of the population.  If you’re not currently following any of these tips, don’t try to start following all of these at once.  Pick one or 2 principles from the list to start out with, master those and then move on to the next ones.

1) Eat something every 2-3 hours that you are awake.

Basically you’re going to eat whenever you are truly hungry.  Hunger is the best indication of when you need to nourish your body and will help control over eating and not eating enough.  Aim to eat only when you are truly hungry and stop eating when you are satisfied.  This generally works out to 3 larger meals alternating with 2-3 smaller snacks throughout the day.  This will help keep you full and satisfied and will reduce the likelihood of binge eating at the end of the day.  This is one of the best principles you can follow to blast fat and build sexy, lean muscle.

2) Don’t Count Your Calories

That’s right.  I said don’t count your calories.  You see, losing fat is simple math.  You must burn more calories then you take in.  But counting calories is not enjoyable and is usually inaccurate anyway.  If you eat the 12 belly fat stripping foods along with their many side-kicks, you will remain full and satisfied all day long.  Having said that. it’s always a good idea to be aware of your portion sizes.  So limit your meals to no bigger than your dinner plate, especially at the beginning, and make sure you get 2-3 of these top 12 foods in every meal.

3) Don’t Drink Your Calories

A lot of people neglect to factor in calories from drinks when they are trying to manage their calories.  Alcohol can have a serious affect on your fat loss efforts.  Alcohol helps your body burn less fat and makes you store more of the fat that you eat.  There is nothing nutritious about alcohol either and drinking usually leads to poor food choices and sometimes binge eating.  If you must have alcohol, a glass of red wine 1-2 nights per week is your best choice.

4) Eat Breakfast Every Day

Studies have consistently shown that making breakfast a daily habit will help you lose weight and keep it off.   People skip breakfast thinking they’re cutting calories, but by mid-morning and lunch, that person is starved.  Breakfast skippers replace calories during the day with mindless nibbling, binging at lunch and dinner. They set themselves up for failure. Eating breakfast also jump starts your metabolism for the day.  When you don’t eat breakfast, you’re actually fasting for 15 to 20 hours, so you’re not producing the enzymes needed to metabolize fat to lose weight.

5) For One Meal a Week, Eat Your Favorite Foods.

You shouldn’t be deprived of your favorite foods.  So you actually get to cheat on your diet.  I like to think of it as a reward meal.  A reward for eating healthy the entire week.  So pick one meal at the end of the week to eat anything you want.  Pizza, ice-cream, hot wings, chocolate, wine….anything goes at this meal.

6) Eat Primarily Single Ingredient Foods

Nowadays, food manufacturers process a lot of foods.  The result – they strip out the nutrients, are not very healthy and they taste much better, causing you to buy them again and again.  You need to start paying closer attention to food labels.

For example, let’s look at cereal.  Is cereal healthy to eat?  I used to think so.  I mean, a lot of cereals are promoted to by heart healthy and lowers blood pressure and cholesterol and other claims.  But take a closer look at the ingredients in a box of cereal.  I have a box of Smart Start Healthy Heart Cinnamon Raison cereal in front of me (left over from when I used to eat cereal).

Here is the ingredient list (put your feet up and get comfortable – this will take awhile):

Oat Bran, Sugar, Rice, Raisins, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Glycerin, Dextrose, Malt Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Cinnamon, Coconut and Palm Kernel Oil, Baking Soda, Ascorbic Acid, Niacinamide, Zinc Oxide, Wheat Starch, Calcium Pantothenate, Reduced Iron, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Thiamin Hydrochloride.

Sorry if I misspelled any words.  It’s hard to type words you can’t pronounce.

Now here are the ingredients from my carton of eggs, er…should I say ingredient.

There’s only 1 ingredient and it’s eggs!

Eggs are the kind of single ingredient food that you should be nourishing your body with and I’ve got a whole list of the best foods to strip away belly fat.

Let me know how these 6 diet tips work out for you!

Your friend,

Scott

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