Lower Ab Workout Food  - What food will help with your training ...

Some simple, yet effective ways for you to make healthy changes in your lifestyle:

1. Make sure to eat at least some healthy fats in most of your meals. Eating enough healthy fats is very important for maintaining proper fat burning and muscle building hormone levels in your body. Sufficient healthy fats included in your diet will help to keep your appetite under control.

The healthiest sources of dietary fats are raw nuts, seeds, egg yolks (from organic free range eggs), avocados, extra virgin olive oil (highest antioxidant content of olive oils), coconut oil (a great source of healthy saturated fats in the form of medium chain triglycerides), and grass-fed meats (a great source of the healthy fat, conjugated linoleic acid, which can help burn body fat and build muscle).

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Here's a good tip: eat a handful of raw nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds are very healthy choices) three times a day about 30 minutes before meals. This can help to supress your appetite and supply your body some protein, fiber, and healthy fats so that you eat less calories overall at your meals and at he same time receive more nutrition due to the high nutrient concentration of most nuts.

2. Eat a high quality protein source with each meal and snack. Good quality proteins from grass-fed meats, grass-fed raw dairy, and even from plant sources such as nuts and beans provides good appetite suppression so that you will be able to control your calorie intake easier.

Getting adequate quality proteins will help you to build lean muscle, provided that you regularly work out hard. Your metabolism will be able to work at a higher rate due to the increased lean muscle on your body.

Eating enough protein with most of your meals will also help your body to control blood sugar and insulin levels, helping to slow the breakdown of ingested carbohydrates.

3. Although I do not completely agree with extremely low-carb diets, I do believe that one of the major reasons that so many people struggle to lose weight for the largest part of their lives is because of eating too much processed carbohydrates such as refined grain-based starches and refined sugars daily.

Natural sugars in whole fruits and berries are fine because the fiber in fruits contributes to a slower blood sugar response in your body. Just make sure to avoid fruit juices, which are mostly sugar. All the fiber are removed in processing the juice.

I think, when people start to minimize their grain consumption (from cereals, bagels, breads, pasta, etc), they start to lose body fat much easier. Try to minimize eating grains and focus on carbohydrate intake with fruits and veggies alone. This simple step alone usually helps people to start managing their weight more easily.

Try to put these 3 tips into practice for eating a smarter, healthier diet . You'll start to see a slimmer, more energetic body in no time - make it a lifestyle! Combining a good eating plan with your lower ab workout will get you results that you want.

4. Below are some great food to help you with your lower ab workout:

• Beans - Low in fat; lots of Protein, Fiber & Iron for building muscle and losing weight.
• Frozen Berries, Grapes or Bananas - Refreshing, Satisfying & nutritious.
• Apples, Strawberries, Peaches, Oranges, Grapefruit - Contains the fibre pectin that   makes you feel fuller for hours.
• Oats - Contains soluble fibre that stays in your stomach much longer that insoluble fibre - helps remove bad cholesterol.
• Low fat dairy - Studies showed that regular Calcium intake helps with weight loss.
• Spinach & other green Vegetables - Lots of fibre and high water content for filling your stomach.
• Whole Grain - Belly melting fibre content.
• Peanut Butter - Contains good fat that helps with Testosterone production which help with fat burn & muscle building.
• Dates or dried Mango - Sweet with Vitamin C - requires lots of chewing, so you eat less.
• Olive Oil - Help stomach to retain food for longer and good to help with cholesterol.
• Almonds - Protein, Good fat & fibre. Very good snack between meals.
• Lean meat and fish - For developing lean muscle mass & helps regulating hormones for controlling your appetite.
• Eggs - rich in protein & iron.
• Yoghurt - Include this in your diet to burn more stomach fat.
  
  ** Above food examples are from Women's Health Magazine - but just as good for men !

Keep these types of food in mind when you go shopping.

I like to buy as many of them as I can enabling me to plan my meals around these foods.