While calorie restriction will help you reduce overall weight, fat-burning diets focus on building muscle and losing body fat. Fat-burning diets promote a rise in metabolism to help increase a woman's fat loss. This is achieved with the types of foods eaten, the amount and frequency. To succeed on a fat-burning diet, select one that is easy for you to follow, allows foods that you enjoy and fits easily into your lifestyle.
The Eat Clean Diet
The eating clean movement started around 2006. Tosca Reno, author of the "Eat Clean Diet," promotes eating lean proteins, such as chicken, turkey, lean beef, fish, tofu, beans and legumes and complex carbohydrates like brown rice, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and essential fatty acids. Eating five to six small meals is also recommended to raise metabolism and burn fat on this diet.
Fat Flush Diet
The "Fat Flush Diet," by author Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S., focuses on cleansing the internal organs for effective fat burning. This diet is a three-phase plan starting with detoxing the body to a maintenance plan. Phase one is a low-calorie restrictive phase which starts with flushing toxins out of the liver to help reduce bloat and prepare the body for fat burning. The second phase provides an increase in calories while sugar, alcohol, caffeine, margarine, grains, bread, cereal, starchy vegetables and dairy products are not allowed. Phase three is the maintenance phase which re-introduces some starchy vegetables, dairy and gluten-free grains.
Flat Belly Diet
Monounsaturated fatty acids, MUFAs, are the main component in the Flat Belly diet. Liz Vaccariello, author of the "Flat Belly Diet," suggests eating MUFAs in small amounts at every meal. The "Journal for Diabetes Care" published a study showing that eating a diet rich in MUFAs will prevent central body fat distribution. Olives, oils, nuts and seeds, avocados and dark chocolate are all rich in MUFAs. This diet begins with a four day anti-bloat jumpstart, the rest of the diet consists of 400-calorie meals with one MUFA, every three to four hours.
Skinny Bitch
The "Skinny Bitch" diet, by authors Roy Freedman and Kim Barnouin, is an all vegan diet, which bans poultry, meat, fish, dairy, sugar, refined flour, alcohol and all chemical additives. This diet starts with a juice fast to jump-start the diet and then recommends eating three times a day with limited snacking. Fresh fruits, vegetables and soy products, are the staples of this calorie-restrictive diet.
References
- "Eat Clean Diet"; Tosca Reno; 2007
- "Fat Flush Plan"; Ann Louise Gittleman; 2002
- "Flat Belly Diet"; Liz Vaccariello; 2008
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