A really important lesson that I have learnt about fat burning is the need to increase the amount of protein I was eating in a very carb heavy diet. All of my snacks were carb based like toast or crumpets and maybe even oven chips. The Diet Solution recommends a good healthy source of protein with each meal. You don’t need to over do it but stuck to a sufficient amount.

Your body breaks down protein into amino acides and amino acid is used to help your body build muscle. Protein is also used to repair muscle and your major organs. Your body can not store protein so it is broken down and what isn’t used leaves your body but it can store carbs which is used for energy. When you eat a high carb meal your body will do all it can to remove all the extra flow of carbs (which turns into glucose) out of your body but what is already stored on you will stay behind. It is hard work for your poor body.

Protein is also a blood sugar stabliser which helps to keep your blood sugar stable. if you eat only carbs (e.g. a portion of chips, some toast, etc) your blood sugar levels go up and down if there is no protein to stablise it.

This taught me that eating a plate full of oven chips and following that hours later with a couple of slices of toast and a cup of tea was a bad idea. I began to wonder whether this was the cause of my weight gain problem – a lack of enough protein. My meals used to consist of

breakfast – cereal like rice krispies or Alpen (a little protein from the milk)
snack – 2 slices of toast
lunch – a sandwich with some meat in the middle but very little – eg two slices of ham
dinner – a huge serving of rice/potatoes, some meat and veg

Years and years and years of eating that ways has had an affect on my body, and thanks to the Diet Solution program I have now been re-educated and I understand the importance of eating protein.

The source of protein is also important and so I buy

• organic eggs
• grass fed beef (organic)
• wild fish
• free range poultry
• raw nuts
• nut butter

Now my eating habits include a good healthy natural source of protein served into each meal

2 eggs with an apple as a snack

Raw nuts with a yoghurt

Raw nuts added to my breakfast porridge (sometimes I buy the omega 3 spread)

Nut butter spread on oat cakes

Lunch wild fish or salmon, turkey or poultry

I drink Nikken Barley Grass powder – barley grass is a great source of natural protein and a healthy green drink

I use coconut oil to cook with and I also add some to my porridge

Every single one of your meals must have protein in it and if you are like me and love your carbs you could probably half the amount of carbs you eat right now to help you.  I never gave them up completely but I do my best to eat a lot less than I used to on most days.

You can find out more about the diet solution program here http://www.onlydietsolution.com

I have written what I believe to be an honest Diet Solution review outlining my use of this product since 2009.

Re-reading some of my old blog posts made me realise how far I have come using it and its just a shame I didn’t stick with it during the winter … still… shoulda, coulda, woulda…. whatever. Its onwards and upwards now.

The Diet Solution really helped me to lose a lot of weight when I started using it because I threw myself into it and stuck with it for a long time – even managed to resist all the cravings for it too.

I hope you find it useful. I read that walking 5 miles a day can help to lose weight even if you didn’t change the way you eat but if you want faster results than 35 lbs a year (which is the estimate of what you can lose) you might want to consider a healthy eating program that will really help you.

I think I am going to relook at my stuff and think about doing it again. Its a great long term healthy eating program that promotes eating as a way of losing weight so its not some crazy diet that will do you more harm than good.

Here’s the page if you want to read it

http://www.loseweightwalking.co.uk/diet-solution-honest-review/

This is my third week of the diet solution and I am noticing some really big changes in my body – now remember I am no fitness/nutrition expert but I do believe that this is my metabolism picking up. I haven’t felt it working for the last 18 years but I do remember what it felt like from my super fit days.  Here are some of the things I am experiencing :

It is amazing how much more I am eating and how much more I want to eat, my body is burning my food at a much faster rate.

I feel warmer now all the time (you have to know me to understand that I was always cold – wearing 2 jumpers and a coat INSIDE my house!)

I can see that I look thinner even if the scales aren’t saying I am losing masses of weight. What I really need to do is measure my inches.

I told a friend recently how “eroctically charged” I am now. 

I feel more energetic than I have for a long time which is helping me keep up with my fat burning exercises but I do need to pick up on them (missed out Monday) and I might even need to do something every day so I don’t give up.

And all of this in only two weeks of no wheat, very little diary (milk in porridge) and an increase in protein. I am pretty sure that the increase in drinking hot water is helping – although for the last 2 weeks I have been only managing 5-6 glasses instead of the 8 I should be drinking and the 10 I really want to start drinking.

Right now my body is burning calories like a steam train furnace and the more I see results the more help I want to give it to make this happen fast!

For another few days Isabel is offering a 2 week meal plan so it is worth taking a look at because it means for your first 2 weeks everything is laid out for you (I had to do mine myself) and at the end of it you will notice the difference so much that you will want to continue yourself.

http://www.onlydietsolution.com