I am quite confused, probably due to the cunning marketing of any company selling diet programmes.
I recently looked on a website that is selling an 11 day eating programme. It talks about low fat diets or low carb diets as being ineffective, as is excersise! To really burn your belly fat, apparently it is all about using certain foods and when you eat them, each day needs to be different.
Then I get this thing in the mail selling a book on the complete list of foods and whether they are high GI or low GI foods (something diabetics have always been concerned with).
So now I’m wondering if these foods that stimulate fat burning hormones are actually just low GI foods?
I’ve found another website that just lists foods that supposedly stimulate your metabolism (and hence burn fat) - these include cabbage, beetroot, celery, carrots, onions, garlic, tomatoes.
Any experts in this area?
There is simply no such thing as “foods that stimulate fat burning hormones”. Nor does this thing about eating different foods on different days matter in the slightest.
Exercise combined with a sensible diet is NOT ineffective, it is in fact the only way to reduce your body fat - burn more calories than you take in. They are just saying that in order to make a sale to you. It is an outright lie.
All sensible foods to be eating as part of a moderate balanced diet, but they do not “burn fat” in any sense, nothing does apart from using your muscles.
Yes > “Exercise combined with a sensible diet is NOT ineffective. . .”
It’s just hard to stick to. All the foods listed are high bulk, low calorie, low carb foods. Eating them is a good thing. You can also add cucumber, celery, spinach . . . you know the list.
And eating different foods is less boring that eating the same foods over and over. And fiddling with your diet gives you something to do besides eating. So it’s possible to use a juggle your food diet to lose weight (I’m not sure about this particular programme, as it’s not listed), but that doesn’t mean it’s stimulating any hormones. At least none that wouldn’t normally be stimulated.
Be wary of all marketing claims. As a type-2 diabetic, I should be eating food with low glycemic index (GI). NutriSystem advertises that their food is low-GI, and they have a special selection for type-2 diabetics. This turned out to be a total lie. The food I received was actually very high-GI, and contained way too much sodium and sugar. Exactly the kind of food that would, in a short period of time, kill me.
Yes, you should be on a low-GI diet to lose weight, even if you’re not diabetic. But educate yourself, and buy your own food.