Did you know that by eating certain foods your body burns 30% of the calories off straight away, whereas with other foods it only burns of 5%? And the best part is these foods can easily be broken down in categories!

Protein is important when you are tyring to lose weight because it’s lean, low fat and helps you to build lean muscle mass. But that’s just the tip of the ice berg really…

The ‘thermal effect of food’ is basically how much and how quickly your body burns off the calories that you eat. So by eating the correct foods, you will be burning a far larger percentage of the calories than by eating other foods.

Here’s how the 3 main food groups match up;

Fat – 5% (thermal effect of food)

Carbs – 10%

Protein – 30%

So if you ate 1000 calories worth of protein, your body naturally and automatically burns 300 of those calories straight off. However if you ate 1000 calories worth of fat your body would only burn off 50 of them.

So that’s 250 calories difference per day, 1750 per week, and over 7000 per month! Imagine the difference it would make to your weight if you were able to ‘automatically’ burn 7000 more calories per month!

Of course I am not recommending just eating protein alone. You need an amount of carbs and fats to maintain a healthy diet and provide your body with all the nutrients you need.

However eating a diet high in lean proteins such as chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, etc, are very clear.

Today’s Takeaway  – Protein and the thermal effect of food allow your body to burn far more calories than other other food type. So let it do it for you!