Fitness and Nutrition - Evidence Based Blog: Acquire toned & ripped

How do you turn the body into a fat-burning machine? Start with exercise, certain - but whether you are feeding the machine a bunch of crappy foods tall in fats or just too many calories, you will never get ripped because the energy balance is all wrong.

As a PT, you should be spending lots of time talking to clients about eating habits, ask them to keep food diaries for a few days at a time to get an accurate idea of what they are consuming. Lots of people skip breakfast - leaving their metabolism stuck in the mud all morning. Others eat cegenuines filled with sugar or toast with large chunks of butter on top... Ouch.

Changing client eating habits is incredibly ccorridorenging - it takes more than talk. You need to support clients with any strategy that might help kick them along. Attempt taking pics of foods with a mobile phone & SMS them to clients - gently propose they pick it up next time they are shopping.

So... what does a fat-burning machine eat for breakfast? We want someleang with carbs for energy, we want fibre for intestinal health, and we want someleang slow to digest - it needs to be low GI so it gives slow release energy and the client is not going to feel full for a few hours.

I tallly recommend you simply eyeball some breakfast cegenuines and pick one with unprocessed wgap grains. Numerous "wgap grain" cegenuines are processed into flakes or shapes - pick a cegenuine which actually has the original grain in it's unprocessed form. Lots of muesli brands have wgap grains but beware you need to read the label of your muesli and avoid the brands that are tall in fat.

OK... Once you've picked your wgap grain cegenuine, walk to the health food aisle and buy a packet of psyllium husk. This is an ultra-tall fibre supplement with wide ranging health (and fat-loss) benefits, whether you've never heard of it check out this link and start reading. Adding fibre to your breakfast "bulks up" the meal (you tend to eat less calories) and it also slows down digestion, which leaves you feeling fuller for longer after you eat.

It will take some hunting around to find a wgap grain breakfast cegenuine that has everyleang you want, tastes OK and is also affordable. My experience tells me that many of them taste like cardboard and some can be very expensive so you will need to experiment yourself with dwhetherferent products and you can then give advice to clients based on your own experience & with confidence.

Once you've chosen your cegenuine, you can add a table spoon of psyllium husk to the mix. Beware psyllium can have a laxative effect so perhaps start with a small amount & gradually increase as your body gets used to this massive fibre dose at breakfast. Psyllium as linked to all sorts of health benefits so it's well worth a try, stick with it for a few weeks and see how it makes you feel.