Top 10 Foods That Burn Fat (by: Tom from Muscle&Stenght)

How can we build an eating program that we can enjoy while still getting us leaner and healthier?
How can we build an eating program that helps us control calories?
How can we build an eating program that improves compliance?
Here’s one good answer: Eat a wide variety of high nutrient density, low calorie density foods that you enjoy which still fit within healthy, fat-burning, muscle-building guidelines!

Here are the lists of foods I choose to achieve these three outcomes. This eating plan is not difficult to stick with at all, by the way. I enjoy eating like this and it feels almost weird not to eat like this after doing it for so long.

Remember, habits work in both directions, and as motivational speaker Jim Rohn has said, “Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with and good habits are hard to form but easy to live with.”

These are listed in the order I frequently consume them. So for example, if oatmeal is on the top of the list, it means that is the food I am most likely to eat every single day.

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My 10 top natural starchy carb and whole grains:

Oatmeal (old fashioned)
Yams
Brown rice (a favorite is basmati, a long grain aromatic rice)
Sweet potatoes (almost same as yams)
Multi grain hot cereal (mix or barley, oats, rye. titricale and a few others)
White potatoes
100% whole wheat bread
100% whole wheat pasta
Beans (great for healthy chili recipes)
Cream of rice hot cereal
My Top 10 top vegetables:

Broccoli
Asparagus
Spinach
Salad greens
Tomatoes
Peppers (green, red or yellow)
Onions
Mushrooms
Cucumbers
Zucchini
My top 10 lean proteins:

Egg whites (whole eggs in limited quantities)
Whey or Casein protein (protein powder supplements)
Chicken Breast
Salmon (wild Alaskan)
Turkey Breast
Top round steak (grass fed beef)
Flank Steak (grass fed beef)
Lean Ground Turkey
Bison/Buffalo
Trout
Burn fat grapes applesMy top 10 fruits:

Grapefruit
Apples
Blueberries
Canteloupe
Oranges
Bananas
Peaches
Grapes
Strawberries
Pineapple
Note: I DO include healthy fats as well, such as walnuts, almonds, extra virgin olive oil, flaxseeds, flaxseed oil (supplement - not to cook with), avocado and a few others.

Also, I do eat dairy products and have nothing against them, nor am I lactose intolerant. I simply don’t eat as much dairy as the rest of the stuff on my lists. When I eat dairy, its usually skim milk, low or non fat cottage cheese, low or non fat yogurt and low or non fat cheese (great for omelettes).

Last but not least, I usually follow a compliance rate of about 95%, which means I take two or three meals per week of whatever I want (stuff that is NOT on these lists - like pizza, sushi, big fatty restaurant steaks, etc)

I hope you found this helpful and interesting. Keep in mind, this is MY food list, and although you probably couldn’t go wrong to emulate it, you need to choose natural foods you enjoy in order to develop habits you can stick with long term. In the fruits and vegetables categories alone, there are hundreds of other choices out there, so enjoy them all!