If there is one worry and concern most of us have when the fall and holidays approach, it's gaining unwanted belly fat.
It starts when summer graduation parties, weddings, vacations, and eating out become commonplace.
Then it continues right into football season and the holidays.
Fortunately, there are a few evidence-based strategies below that are scientifically proven to help you stop fat storage when you eat your favorite foods or go off the rails this summer.
All you have to do is just use one or more of the follow damage control ticks below to enjoy a "guilt free" summer diet without fat storage.
Now this isn't a free pass to eat whatever you want. It's more of a "damage control plan" when life happens.
Here's how you can maintain a lean, healthy summer body, while still enjoying your favorites.
Did you know just by eating your foods in the wrong order, you can send your post-meal fat storing hormones souring… causing your body to store MORE fat?
However, when you eat foods in the right order it has been shown to significantly lower the amount of fat storing hormones your body releases after eating.
What's the secret?
Just eat your protein and vegetables first.
Before you take your first nibble of your favorite high carb bread, mashed potatoes, pasta, pizza, or hit the dessert tray... just make sure you eat your meat and veggies first.
Studies show that eating your protein and vegetables FIRST (before carbohydrates) significantly decreases blood glucose levels by 29%, 37%, and 17% at 30, 60, and 120-minutes when blood samples were taken after eating.1
Also, insulin levels (your body's #1 fat storage hormone) at 60 and 120 minutes after eating were also significantly lower when protein and vegetables were consumed first instead of carbs.1
Bottom line: when you eat your favorite carbs before protein and veggies you send your body straight into fat STORING mode… compared with the reverse order.
As an added bonus, you won't be passed out on the couch if you eat too much.
Instead, your blood sugar and insulin will be under control so you'll be wide-awake to enjoy quality time with friends and family.
Now, instead of fearing your favorite carbs every week you can enjoy them, with minimal fat storage simply by eating them after you have some protein and veggies.
Although you can probably use this trick for 60 seconds and get the desired effect if you go hard enough, this is the only hack that is recommended for at least 3 minutes.
But you could literally use this simple 3-minute protocol in your bathroom if you wanted to, and it will ensure you don't store your favorite feasts as belly fat.
Enter: GLUT4
Glut4 is a glucose transporter, which is responsible for transporting the fuel from the carbs you eat into your fat and muscle tissue.
The secret to avoid fat storage is using muscular contractions that bring Glut4 to the surface.
This will ensure the carbs you overeat are stored inside muscle tissue—instead of fat.
Here's how it works: simply perform any type of body weight movements for 3-5 minutes about 15 to 30 minutes before OR after your high carb feasts.
You'll wind up with somewhere between 50 to 100 total repetitions, but focus on getting as many repetitions as you can for 2-3 minutes. You can use ANY type of movement or exercise that engages larger body parts like chest, back, or legs.
For example, you can use body weight squats, lunges, jump squats, push ups, pull-ups, wall push ups, burpees, mountain climbers, renegade rows, or even jumping rope.
This will bring GLUT-4 to the surface of muscle cells opening the gateway for your some of your high-carb cheat -foods to be shuttled into muscle rather than being stored as ugly belly fat.
In most cases, people who eat too many carbs during the summer months end up suffering from a lot of carb based "fat spillover".
You just have to be smart about it.
One of the #1 fat burning secrets of fitness models, Hollywood actors, and bodybuilders is maximizing insulin sensitivity.
Without optimal insulin sensitivity, all the carbs you eat never get delivered to muscle or liver tissue…
Instead it gets stored as ugly belly fat.
Well, believe it or not, Apple Cider Vinegar could just be your #1 fat burning weapon to help you improve your insulin sensitivity so that you minimize fat storage whenever you overeat your favorite foods this holiday season.
In fact, one study showed that ACV can reduce blood sugar by a whopping 34% after eating 50 grams of WHITE bread!2
In other words, consuming 1-2 tablespoons of ACV before your favorite feasts helps you can take control of your fat storing hormones.
ACV has also been shown to aid in heart health and weight loss by detoxifying the liver, increasing metabolism, and suppressing hunger levels.
The all-natural alkalizing effect of fresh squeezed juice, from organic lemons, has a very powerful detoxifying effect that can purge toxins from the blood and help assist in removing harmful compounds from your body.
Almost everybody has been misled to believe lemons are acidic, but inside your body lemons are an incredibly alkaline food that can help balance your body's pH, which means better health and higher energy levels.
Lemon juice has also been shown to improve your digestive function, acts as a mild diuretic and is loaded with healthy ingredients (citric acid, vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, bioflavonoids, pectin) that helps boost your immune function.
But the most powerful benefit of lemon juice is its ability to stabilize blood sugar.
The glycemic index is a scale that compares how rapidly a food increases your blood sugar. A variety of factors affect a food's glycemic index, including acid.
Lemon juice is acidic, and it slows how quickly your stomach empties food so your body takes longer to break down sugar molecules, causing a steadier rise in blood sugar levels.
Just one to two tablespoons of lemon juice may reduce the impact of a meal on your blood sugar by as much as 30 percent, according to an article in "Reader's Digest.
Combine all these benefits together and you have the PERFECT environment for LESS fat storage.
All you need to do to get all these healthy fat fighting benefits is squeeze a medium sized lemon (use organic to avoid residual pesticides) into a small glass of water every morning on an empty stomach.
A study conducted in La Jolla, CA showed that consumption of this fruit was found to be associated with a significant reduction in weight.
In fact, this particular study showed that two-hours AFTER ingesting grapefruit, post-glucose insulin levels were significantly reduced among subjects compared to a placebo group.
So this research indicates that this may be the ONLY fruit that actually increases fat-burning after ingestion.
In a study of 91 obese individuals, eating half a fresh grapefruit before meals caused weight loss of 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg) over a period of 12 weeks.
The grapefruit group also had reductions in insulin resistance, which means it can help you metabolize and digest sugar and carbs more efficiently and potentially prevent them from being stored as belly fat.
Just eat a half a grapefruit 10-15 minutes before your two largest meals for the day.
Here's what the study concluded:
There was also a significant reduction in 2-hour post-glucose insulin level in the grapefruit group compared with placebo. Half of a fresh grapefruit eaten before meals was associated with significant weight loss. In metabolic syndrome patients the effect was also seen with grapefruit products. Insulin resistance was improved with fresh grapefruit. Although the mechanism of this weight loss is unknown it would appear reasonable to include grapefruit in a weight reduction diet.
This is despite the carbs and sugars found inside this fruit.
Very interesting stuff.
Also, grapefruit is one of the only fruits that can help you flatline insulin before meals.
And since insulin is your body's #1 fat storage hormone this means consuming a glass of grapefruit juice or eating a half of grapefruit before high carb meals can limit fat storage.
NOTE: there are quite a few medications that interact with grapefruit, so make sure you check all labels on your prescriptions before trying this.
In two studies, drinking half a liter (17 ounces) of ice water was shown to increase metabolism by 24-30% for up to 1.5 hours.
But timing your water intake is the most important part. Drinking water about 30 minutes before meals is the most effective. It can make you feel more full, so that you consume less calories. 3,4
In one study, dieters who drank half a liter of water before meals lost 44% more weight, over a period of 12 weeks.5
Ice water has this effect mainly because your body will actually burn extra calories in order to heat the water to your body temperature.
Ideally, when you consume carbohydrates or cheat food, here is what you want to happen in order to minimize fat-storage:
1. Minimum insulin release. This occurs when your body is highly sensitive to insulin. When it is, only a small amount of insulin is necessary to effectively and efficiently clear sugar from your blood to its storage sites.
This is great news because your body has an incredibly difficult time burning fat in the presence of insulin. The less insulin you have floating around, the better.
2. Quick and efficient blood sugar clearance. Again, this will occur when your body is highly sensitive to insulin.
3. Maximum glycogen uptake. Glycogen is the term used for stored carbohydrate in muscle tissue and the liver.
When these tissues are highly sensitive to insulin, the vast majority of blood sugar will be stored within them as an energy reserve, instead of being converted to fat.
4. Minimum fat storage. When you increase insulin sensitivity, your body will choose to store your carbohydrate intake as energy, again in lean muscle tissue and the liver, instead of body fat.
Again, your body's ability to tolerate carbohydrates all comes down to your insulin sensitivity and your body's ability to quickly and efficiently shuttle carbohydrates to lean tissue and not fat.
Here are 3 ingredients – each of which has been clinically shown to dramatically improve both insulin sensitivity and your body's ability to process carbohydrates.
The first ingredient I'm excited to share with you today is Cinnamomum Cassia, a potent extract harvested from Indonesian cinnamon bark that has been shown to have remarkable effects on both blood sugar and carbohydrate tolerance alike.
For example, in a study conducted at the Swedish University of Lund by Dr. Joanna Hlebowicz, subjects receiving this potent cinnamon bark extract demonstrated a 10-fold increase in their body's ability to metabolize and process carbohydrates.
And as if that wasn't enough, this same extremely concentrated cinnamon extract was also shown to reduce blood sugar levels by up to a whopping 51% after a meal.1
This further validates its effectiveness for diabetes protection and decreased fat-storage.
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It's the perfect nutrient proven in peer-reviewed research to improve cognitive function, reduce body fat, eliminate food cravings, and elevate mood.
But where it really "shines" is in its ability to help redirect your favorite carbohydrates into muscle tissue—helping prevent them from being stored as fat.
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It's the perfect nutrient proven in peer-reviewed research to support healthy blood sugar, improve cognitive function, reduce body fat, eliminate food cravings, and elevate mood.
This most powerful superstar found inside CarbBurn™ has been used in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine for decades because it's so effective at optimizing blood glucose, improving insulin sensitivity and preventing fat-storage.
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This is the most powerful superstar found inside CarbBurn™ and has been used in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine for decades because it's so effective at optimizing blood glucose, improving insulin sensitivity and preventing fat-storage.
Now, while you could try to locate all of the above ingredients individually, research the actual extracts of each that yield the positive carbohydrate tolerance effects mentioned above, purchase them all separately and pay shipping on each, then sort through study after study to determine the scientific dose of those extracts, the good news is that we already did ALL that for you here at Beyond 40™, and put it in to one scientifically-backed, lab-tested, ultra-convenient product called CarbBurn™.
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If you're over 40, controlling insulin and blood sugar is a key to looking younger, living longer, and burning more belly fat. And CarbBurn is the answer.
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