Healthy Weight Loss-Lose Belly Fat With The Power of Protein! Part 4

 Putting it into action what you've learned to start healthy weight loss and lose belly fat!

Just knowing about protein and the food options that are out there is not enough to make this first step of the twelve week diet work.  A person needs to understand how to put this knowledge to work and that is not as straightforward as one might think.  Just as with any diet, it is not the principle behind it that causes it to fail, it is a problem of execution.  Therefore, take a moment to consider your meal options before heading to the grocery store.  Think about which foods would be most suitable for each meal and how much of each is needed to make up the total desired protein intake.

    First and foremost, with this or any diet, do not fall into the “skip breakfast to lose weight” trap.  Breakfast is called the “most important meal of the day” for a reason.  This is the meal that refuels our body – our engine – after hours of deprivation.  Without it, you are expecting your engine to run efficiently with no gas.  It just doesn’t make sense.  Furthermore, when breakfast is skipped, the body goes into starvation mode.  The metabolism slows and the body begins to store as much energy as possible.
That means that the snack – granola bar, candy bar, soda, or whatever it may be – that is consumed before lunch is being tucked away in your thighs, butt, or stomach.  Eating breakfast tells the body that it is okay to continue functioning normally – you are not being starved.  Besides, breakfast is the perfect time to begin bulking up on proteins.
It can be tricky to work in thirty-five percent protein.  Though protein is available in many different foods, if one wants to watch calories as well, he or she will likely find it difficult to work in enough protein each day.  Thus, it might be best to start by aiming for just one hundred grams of protein.  This is an example of what a day might include.

 Breakfast, for instance, that consists of a cup of blueberries, two scrambled eggs, and a glass of chocolate milk is four hundred twenty-five calories and more than twenty-one and a half grams of protein.

 Lunch, a turkey and cheese sandwich on wheat bread with lite mayonnaise would be worth four hundred calories and a whopping twenty-five grams of protein.

 Dinner, you might opt for a NY Strip steak with rice pilaf and corn on the cob.  This is five hundred calories worth of food, which contains thirty-two and a half grams of protein
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At this point you are up to seventy-nine grams of protein and 1,356 calories.  So, if you snuck in a cup of low-fat cottage cheese after lunch and half a cup of mixed nuts between breakfast and lunch, then you would add another twenty-six grams of protein, which would allow you to reach the one hundred mark and would put you at 1,844 calories for the day. 

As you will notice, the day does not have to be devoid of food in order for a person to be able to lose Belly fat or for healthy weight loss.  The calories can be kept to a minimum, while keeping the belly full and the diet on track.  Thanks to the filling qualities of protein, this becomes even simpler.  Rather than focusing on hunger, you can put our attention toward learning the foods that are most healthy for you and learning the recipes that mix them and make them even better than they already are.