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My name is Diana Keuilian, I’m the creator of Family Friendly Fat Burning Foods and today I’d like to share with you my top 7 Tips To Make Fat Burning Meals. 

Wouldn't it be great if all your favorite comfort meals naturally promoted fat loss? I think that would be awesome. 

My old favorite comfort meals were fried fish tacos, fully-loaded veggie burritos, angel hair pasta with mizithra cheese and cheese-smothered veggie burgers with fries. Yummmmmmmm! Unfortunately these old favorites brought on rapid fat storage. 

Due to my love of food, in my twenties I went from a size 4 to a size 12.  

In my frustration I tried portion control, and began to limit the amount of foods that I ate. This began a yo-yo cycle of eating less food one day, more the next, and never seeing the results I wanted. 

Over the past few years I've read countless books on nutrition and have finally 
landed on the formula for creating meals that promote fat loss, and taste good 
while doing it. 

Oh and this method of eating has effortlessly brought me back to that size 4 :)

This is what I discovered...

Fat Burning Tip #1) Focus On Protein 
The base of a fat burning meal is a healthy serving of quality, lean protein. 
Choose from organic, hormone-free chicken, pork, beef, lamb, veal, fish or eggs.

No wonder I was gaining weight! Most of my favorite meals had very little to do 
with protein. After giving up meat at age 12, I spent the next 18 years as a junk food vegetarian. Most of my meals were made up of processed grains and sugar.

Why is protein so important? Protein supports and fuels your lean tissues, namely your muscles, and does not have an effect on blood sugar levels, which would 
promote fat storage.  

Fat Burning Tip #2) Ditch Grains and Refined Sugar
A fat burning meal does not contain a serving of grains or starches. Yes, I 
realize that this goes against everything that we have been taught or experienced with dinners. Most meals are plated with a jumbo serving of noodles, pasta, potatoes, rice, has been breaded or is served with bread, tortillas, chips or buns. 

As I learned the hard way, these carbs are more than we need, and end up being 
stored as fat. And, yes, it is possible to create fat-burning dinners that 
satisfy even the hungriest meat-and-potatoes members of your family. 

This was the hardest part for me to get used to. Grains and sugar are filled with fat-promoting carbs, and as you saw above, my favorite meals were all carb-ed 
out.  

There's really no reason, other than habit, to eat grains or sugar on a regular basis. Once I removed these from my diet, and got out of the habit of eating them, I no longer craved or even found my old favorites very appealing. 

Fat Burning Tip #3) Bring On The Veggies
After you remove the grains and sugars from your meal, add a bunch of fiber-filled veggies instead. One of my favorite things to do now when building a fat burning meal is to get a bowl, add a few handfuls of organic spinach and arugula, and then top it with protein and some cooked veggies. Add a light homemade dressing 
and you're looking at the perfect, quick fat burning meal.  

Fiber-filled veggies are important for many reasons in addition to the fiber. They are filled with nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, all of which your body needs.  They are also very low in calories compared to the amount of space that they take up in your stomach. So you'll get full faster on fewer calories. 

Fat Burning Tip #4) Quality Ingredients
 
Ingredients are the building blocks to a healthy meal so pay attention to the quality of the ingredients you use. Fast food just isn’t going to cut it! Be willing to spend a little more on the foods that you eat. Quality is much more important that quantity. 

When choosing meat look for organic, antibiotic and hormone-free. Avoid processed meats, like lunchmeats, as these contain potentially harmful additives and lots of salt. Also avoid highly processed soy fake meats.

Choose foods that are:
• Fresh, organic and seasonal
• Pronounceable ingredients
• Whole foods

Fat Burning Tip #5) Use A Healthy Cooking Method
 
The method in which you cook your meal determines how many calories, how much added fat, and the number of nutrients that survive.

Don’t prepare meals like this:
• Fried and battered
• Processed and packaged
• Doused with cream sauce

Choose these cooking methods:
• Grilled
• Baked
• Broiled
• Steamed

Fat Burning Tip #6) Cook With Coconut Oil
I used to always cook with vegetable oil, never realizing how harmful it was to my fat loss efforts. Unfortunately most people use harmful, unstable and fat 
promoting oils when they cook. 

The good news is that coconut oil is an amazing, healthy oil that not only tastes great but also helps promote fat loss. Among its many benefits, coconut oil is 
stable, even at high temperatures. It’s filled with lauric acid, which boosts the immune system and helps ward off infections.  
 
Best of all, coconut oil has been shown to increase metabolism and thyroid 
activity, which boosts fat burning. 

Fat Burning Tip #7) Enjoy Dessert of Fresh Fruit
When is the last time that you bit into a fresh, organic, perfectly ripe piece of fruit? Delicious, wasn’t it? I used to overlook fruit as the perfect dessert 
that it is, and instead would eat artificially flavored, cane sugar sweetened, 
processed desserts that encourage rapid weight gain and declined health. 

I’m not going to say that ice cream and chocolate don’t taste awesome, because 
they do. But eating desserts like that on a regular basis is one of the big reasons that I kept gaining weight back in my twenties. By making the simple switch from refined sugar desserts to desserts of organic, fresh fruit I was able to lose 
weight without feeling deprived.  

Let’s bring fruit back to its rightful place as our favorite, most popular after-dinner sweet. Out with the refined sugar and corn syrup and in with Nature’s 
sweetest gift…fresh fruit.

Hope that you have enjoyed these 7 Tips To Make Fat Burning Meals. I’m walking proof that this way of eating truly delivers results without deprivation or boring, bland meals. 

I love food WAY too much to give up flavorful, delicious dinners, snacks and desserts. In fact, I’m so passionate about creating fat burning foods that, for the first time ever, I’ve put all of my best recipes and eating secrets together into a full Family Friendly Fat Burning Meals program. 

This system has over 100 of my family’s favorite fat burning recipes – which I used to effortlessly reverse the weight I had gained in my twenties. It’s tasty stuff like Chicken Enchiladas, Baked Chicken Nuggets, Make-Your-Own Tacos, Healthy Brownies, Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies and much, much more. 

Here’s a page where you can learn more about my Family Friendly Fat Burning Meals Program.
I’m excited to hear your fat loss success story. Good luck, and enjoy all of 
those tasty recipes :)

Festive time starts two weeks back in my part and this will go on for the coming full months and then start the cake and cookie time for Christmas and New Year. Festive months mean lot of sweets and all other foods that will do no good but add on few calories. Fortunately this year I am total stress free as NuNatural send me a box full of the company’s stevia liquids and powders. I was not very familiar with stevia as I use honey as organic substitute of white sugar. But then I came to know that stevia also known as sugar leaf or sweet leaf is a herb, a natural sweetener from South America and it has been used for 1,400 years. The best part of stevia is its 100% natural and has zero calories. While other sweeteners have slight impact on blood sugar and insulin stevia does not. So it’s great for people with insulin sensitivity. As soon as I get the box I start using the NuNatural white stevia powder in my cup of tea and fruit juices. NuNatural rocks, it taste great with no unpleasant after taste and you couldn’t tell that it is stevia instead of sugar. Orange and Lemon are my favorite flavors and I love to play with them so when I get the NuNatural alcohol free pure liquid orange and lemon bottle, I can’t stop to try my hand to make a delicious salad with pumpkin, appropriate for the Halloween season. This is a very simple but awesome flavorful salad and all this deliciousness and flavor are gift from NuNatural. I am very thankful to them for sending this gift box which has one more magical product PreSweet Tagtose. It will turn all those sinful delights into delicious blessings to remember by my friends who stay miles away from desserts for high calorie intake. For now I am sharing the pumpkin salad recipe with NuNatural orange lemon vinaigrette I hope you all will like it.

Pumpkin Salad with NuNatural's Orange Lemon Vinaigrette

Ingredients

• 1/2 pumpkin cut into bite size triangles
• 1 bunch baby spinach leaves
• 1 dropper NuNatural Lemon Nustevia or to taste
• 1 dropper NuNatural Orange Nustevia or to taste
• 11/2 tbsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp or to taste black salt
• 1/8 tsp or to taste white pepper powder
• 2tbsp olive oil
• 1 red onion finely sliced
• handful lightly toasted cashew and almond sliced

Cooking Directions

1. Put the pumkin on a flat baking tray, drizzle with some oil and season with salt and pepper bake in a 180c oven for 15 minutes or when it is just tender but not brown. Set aside to cool to room temparature.
2. Now take a bowl add olive oil, NuNatural orange and lemon stevia ( shake well before using to get the most  brilliant flavor), lemon juice, black salt and white pepper powder. Mix well.
3. Scatter baby spinach leaves on a platter, scatter the pumpkin and onions and nuts. Drizzle NuNatural's orange lemon vinaigrette over it and toss a bit. Serve.

                       Happy Halloween to all my friends!