Ann Louise Gittleman, a certified clinical nutritionist specializing in weight loss says… "The right kind and the right amount of fat will help you lose weight effortlessly and painlessly without becoming preoccupied with dieting"
4 Fats that burn fat or help you lose weight…
1. Omega-3 fats
Omega-3 fats help you burn fat by helping your body respond better to a hormone called Leptin (Leptin is the Greek word for thin) and…
- Leptin tells your body (your brain) to
suppress your appetite making you eat less so you can maintain or lose weight and…
- Leptin increases your metabolism by
increasing your thyroid output (your thyroid regulates your metabolism) and on top of all that…
- Leptin also causes your body to burn fat for energy so…
If your body isn't responding well to Leptin then the reverse happens - You'll be hungrier, and you'll store more fat so… You can take Omega-3 fats to help your body respond much better to Leptin so you can increase your fat-burning metabolism
and…
Omega-3 fats are found in salmon, flaxseeds, nuts,
Omega-3 supplements and
these other 79 foods sources of Omega-3 fats
and…
3 more ways Omega-3 fats help you lose weight is…
- Omega-3 fats help you control your hunger by stabilizing your blood sugar
levels and…
- An Australian study showed that when people took Omega-3 fats while on an exercise program burned more fat than people who Only Exercised (without taking Omega-3 fats) and people who exercised & took other types of fat and…
- Studies done in Japan & The Czech republic suggest that Omega-3 fats prevent the creation of ugly body fat and these same studies suggested
Omega-3 fats promote more fat burning.
2. CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid)
CLA is good for helping you
get rid of belly fat and According to The
International Journal of Obesity (August, 2001)…
- A group of overweight men taking CLA lost mostly belly fat and they reduced their waistlines by 1 inch while taking CLA and the
CLA
helped them lose all that belly fat without making any diet or lifestyle
changes and…
- In a similar study women lost mostly only belly & thigh fat with CLA and they reduced their waistlines by1.2 inches and…
CLA also helps you Burn fat & gain leaner muscles at the same time
- A group of overweight people lost 9% of their body fat and increased their lean muscle mass by 1-to-2% just by taking CLA with NO changes in their diet or lifestyle
- this all happened during a year-long research study done by the Scandinavian Clinical Research Group
and…
CLA prevents your body from storing fat
- A University of Wisconsin Study at Madison concluded t
hat
CLA is good for preventing weight gain in people who had previously lost
weight dieting and even if dieters gained weight after dieting while still
taking CLA - half of the weight gained back was lean muscle (and you know muscle burns fat anyway)
- Listen to this: "CLA doesn't make a big fat cell get little. What it
rather does is keep a little fat cell from getting big." - Michael Pariza,
director of the Food Research Institute, on his findings from the University of
Wisconsin Study at Madison on CLA and…
- CLA can be found in Organic beef, dairy products and
these other 18 foods high in CLA here or
you can
take
a CLA supplement like Tonalin CLA
3. Omega-6 Fats
Many studies show how the Omega-6 fats Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) & Linolenic acid
(LA) help you burn fat -
for example with GLA…
- People lost between 9-to-11 pounds in 6 weeks while taking GLA
during a study done by Dr Mri who's a researcher and consultant at
the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff but…

- The good & bad news about most studies involving GLA is you
have to be at least 10-to-20% overweight to see any results but…
- GLA prevents weight gain in people who've lost weight plus GLA is also an
appetite suppressant since it raises the levels of serotonin (and serotonin is a
hormone that makes you feel full and eat less) and…
- GLA raises your metabolism by making the "Brown fat" in your body burn calories to keep your body warm
and… Brown fat (or Brown Adipose tissue or BAT) is not the same as the ugly "white" fat that accumulates on your arms, belly, thighs and other problem areas because…
- Brown fat's main job is to burn fat calories for energy to keep your body
warm but usually brown fat is not as active in overweight people and that's why
You need GLA so you can
"turn on" Brown fat so it can help you burn off the ugly "white" fat
and…
As for the other Omega-6 fat Linolenic acid (LA)…
- Women lost 2-to-4 pounds of fat and gained firmer muscles just by
supplementing with Linolenic acid (LA) without any significant changes to their diet &
exercise programs over a 16 week study and…
- GLA & LA can be found in
Borage Oil,
Evening Primrose Oil
and these 28 foods high
in Omega-6 fats
and please note that…
- CLA is also
an Omega-6 fat
but…
You need to eat equal amounts of Omega-3 & Omega-6 fats
or…
You need to make sure you eat up to 4 times more Omega-3 fats than Omega-6 fats for health reasons
and…
This is something that you really don't have to worry about if you
eat a healthy diet that includes most of these weight loss foods here
while avoiding most of these
bad foods here (especially the fast
foods) that causes you to eat more Omega-6 fats.
4. MCTs (medium chain triglycerides)
MCTs will
increase your metabolism, your body is more likely to use
MCTs for energy instead of storing it as fat and
MCTs help curb your
appetite and because of these facts…
Farmers will not feed their animals foods high in MCTs like
coconut oil because it will keep their animals very lean and…
- A group of 31 overweight people lost an average of 7 lbs.
during a 16 week study when they included MCT oil in their muffins
and in another 12 week study…
- 2 groups of people were put on almost the same exact diet but
the only difference was… One group got it's fat mainly from
regular dietary fat while the other group got it's fat only from
MCTs and…
- The group taking MCTs lost 8½ lbs. (2½ lbs. more
than the other group) and…
- The combined results of many studies on MCTs all conclude that
you can lose up to 12-to-36 pounds a year just by
replacing the regular fat in your diet with MCTs and…
- Coconut Oil & Palm Oil are all
good sources of MCTs or you can use a MCT supplement
How to include these fats in your diet to lose weight faster…
- Remember:
Fats only need to be 10-to-30% of your diet
if you're trying to lose weight or build muscle and…
- You want to make sure that Most of or… ALL the fats you eat are Omega-3,
CLA,
Omega-6
and/or
MCT fats if you want to burn fat faster and…
- You can easily get most of those fats by eating more lean proteins like fish, organic beef,
nuts & beans but if you find you can't get enough of these
healthy fats in your diet…
- You can take Omega-3,
CLA,
Omega-6
and/or
MCT supplements.
Other stuff you can eat to lose weight…
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