SUPER FOODS AND FAT LOSS!
This is a term I am hearing more and more on a daily basis and is often the talk of diet conversations. I find it is often taken out of context. Many of these so called super foods are being eaten because they are reported to have great fat loss benefits. Of course different foods have all sorts of benefits. Yes olives, olive oil and avocado’s contain healthy fats. Greek yogurt contains probiotics and fills you up to help stop snacking. Oat are a good source of fibre and are reported to lower cholesterol and oily fish like salmon contain protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
All statements worth remembering when making food choices and the list goes on. With regards to fat loss however, the real basics are often lost amongst all the eat this and eat that statements. I am asked on a daily basis questions like. ‘I am eating avocado and porridge every day. That’s healthy and will help me lose weight wont it’? Or ‘I am struggling to lose weight, should I eat more salmon and kale’? Most of the time my response to these types of questions is ‘what else are you beating’?
You see the focusing on what foods have all these benefits and things going for them means people are often forgetting the primary rule for fat loss is be in a deficit. This means you need to be burning more calories than you are consuming. I don’t care how healthy salmon and kale is, if your maintenance calories (the number of calories you need to consume to stay exactly the same) are 2400 Kcal per day and you are eating 3000 Kcal per day of them you will put weight on and not lose it.
Ensure you are in a deficit, eat wholefoods where possible and cut out processed high sugar foods. Then see where you are at. When starting out on a new fat loss diet, keep it simple to start.
Vince
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