How to Lose Weight Fast With Okara

Getting rid of body fat wouldn't be all that difficult if you didn't need to make changes in your eating habits. But you do, and unfortunately, bad habits are hard to break without some very strong incentive. And when I say strong, I mean powerful - like, you can eat more food, more often!

OK, it's a deal. Just quit eating sugar and starch and you can eat every 2 - 3 hours from morning 'till night. Dropping those two health jihadists will make room for tons of extra food. Although they are just 'simple' carbohydrates they are extremely destructive. When eaten, they release all of their energy in one intense, high-energy explosion, much like gasoline does in an automobile. But our bodies aren't built like automobiles and just can't handle all that energy at once, so we use what we need in that brief instant, and store all the excess in our fat cells.

The problem is that as soon as the explosion dies down, there is no more free energy at hand and the fat cells are securely locked by falling insulin levels, so the stomache starts calling for more food - preferably sugar because it is quick. So we eat some more, another explosion jolts our system, more of the energy is stored as fat, and the call goes out again for more food. Thus the sugar cycle continues and our bellies get bigger and bigger.

Complex carbohydrates however, are slow-burning fuels and are good for you. Things like grains, legumes, vegetables, and fresh fruit, are ideal for weight loss, but even so, we have to be careful to select those that taste best, fill us fastest, and provide the least calories.

In spite of the widely held belief that pancakes are fattening, they are one of the very best diet foods available to you. It is the toppings - butter, jam, honey, sugar syrups, whipped cream, etc - that are fattening. Pancakes with fresh strawberries and zero-calorie syrup are delicious, low in calories, and 100% nutritionally balanced. You can eat them six times a day and still lose weight.

One way to decrease the calories in pancakes even further is to add okara to the flour. A batter consisting of two-parts okara and one part all-purpose flour will cut the calories in half, and add considerably to the pancake's fiber, protein, and fullness factor.

Okara is truly a miracle diet food. You can use it to make veggie-burgers, soy sausage, sandwich spreads, donuts, muffins, burgers, chicken nuggets, and all kinds of things. Get my FREE 24-page e-Booklet for more details on this wonderful baking product.

Getting back to the bad things, you know you should also cut down on fat. Fat is the last food processed by the digestive system, after carbohydrates and proteins, so it don't get into the blood stream until it is already saturated with glucose and doesn't need the fat. So, because fat is fat and doesn't have to be changed, it gets quickly and naturally slipped into the fat cells around your hips and waist for storage.

Protein is a fine diet food provided it doesn't come from fatty meat, which can lead to clogged arteries and heart attack. Red meat has also been linked to cancer, alzheimer's disease, and doubles the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.

Normally, you would need about 40 grams of protein a day to satisfy your body's needs,but if you are trying to build muscle and take off fat at the same time, you should increase your protein intake to one gram for every pound of body weight (an increase of 160 grams for a 200-pound male).

But protein contain four calories per gram, so increasing your protein consumption by 160 grams would increase your daily calorie intake by 640, which could add 2-pounds per week to your total body-weight.

Because of the health risks associated with eating red meat, most of your protein should come from tuna, chicken, wheat, soy products, and whey.

Cal Smith
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