Quote: (12-02-2013 06:31 PM)germanico Wrote:
"Heat burns fat"
Are you serious?
In short, yes.
If you eat a diet that promotes thermogenesis, you're going to have a metabolic uptick and potentially burn more fat.
For instance, if you eat 300 grams of protein per day (about 1200 calories) you're going to burn about 1/3 of those calories strictly from trying to digest the protein.
Supposing, in a regular day, you eat 2500 calories, 1300 from fat and 1200 from protein, it's really like you only ate 2100 calories because 400 calories from the protein are expended just trying to digest it. You'll feel as full as if you'd eaten 2500 calories, but you're going to be burning bodyfat to make up the deficit. Fat and carbs have literally no thermic quality to them.
If you want to burn fat (I've reversed my opinion on carbs), stay with high protein - but alternate fat and carbs. So you can go a week high protein / high fat , then a week high protein / high carbs - just keep the carbs low on your keto phase and the fat low on your carb phase and you should keep burning shitloads of fat.
You can eat or otherwise ingest other foods designed to increase the thermic reaction, like cinnamon, or drinking a gallon of ice-cold water every day (that should burn as many calories as running a few miles).