Let's talk about fast tips to strip fat quickly when you want to drop body fat! Here's what we do initially with our "cleaning house" strategies as we get ready to start out with a new client. And the things that we want to focus on is begin to eliminate all of the foods that didn't exist 3,000 years ago and then break it down into 10 real simple steps.

First one, you want to eat 30 to 60 minutes after you get out of bed. And this will jump start your metabolism, get your body going, kind of put a little fuel in the tank. From this point you want to eat every two to three hours to keep blood sugar stable.

The 2nd step would be to eat protein with every meal. Basically anything that has eyes, had a heartbeat, walked on land, flew in the air or swam in the water get it, eat it. Sorry vegans, you can do your thing with your beans and sprouts.

The other thing is we have some low fat dairy choices and eggs. I'm not so wild about dairy but some people really have to have it. There are a lot of us that have allergies with it. But we will go into that a little bit more. Low fat cottage cheese would be my choice and then some of the low fat plain vanilla yogurts. You can find those at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods places like that.

You can also augment your menu plan with some whey protein powders. Not everybody's favorite and you hold off on the soy based products as well. Plenty of research indicates that it may not be the best for a fat loss strategy. Let's first try to eat whole foods first without a whole lot of those supplements unless needed to keep calories lower.

Third, the next item would eating vegetables and/or fruit with every meal. And the idea would be to if you are interested in losing weight or body fat and you're a big, big fruit eater, we will cut back on that and mainly focus on our vegetables. Mostly the green ones, great big, green leafy salads are very good. And again, we will talk about this some more in our show and tell video and audio series.

And the 4th item, "when" to eat "other" carbs. These would be those carbs consumed only post workout.... mainly brown rice, oatmeal, potatoes, yams, just no man made carbs here period. General rule of thumb for us is if a guy didn't bring it in a bushel or in a basket to the market, don't eat it. If it came out of a machine and it was mixed with chemicals, additives, flavoring and it was churned up and out comes a pretzel, out comes a bagel or bun. You get the idea. If it is not coming out of the ground, if it is man made then it's not really a quality carb that we want to include in our menu plans folks.

And 5th, we want to focus on our essential fats omega 3, 6 and 9 basically nut butters, fish oil and vegetable oil. Nut butter is real simple....we go for peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, macadamia nut butter and maybe some sunflower seed butter but basically the butters that you find in the store that have the oil on them. Not the Jiffy, not the Skip, not the hydrogenated fats but the stuff that has the oil on the top of it when you open the lid. Don't throw the out the oil, mix that in. You got to have it, it's good for you.

The other item would be the fish oils, a lot of us don't eat a lot of salmon every day so let's go with a fish oil supplement. We use something called krill oil which is actually a superior type of oil which is very good. Omega 3 fat, also found in salmon oil and other cold water fish, can be consumed in supplement form in oil capsules about a gram each. You want to look for a combined EPH and DHA that gives you something in the neighborhood of 300 epa/dha combined strength or more. So look for that on the back of package label. Stay tuned for part two of this article for more helpful hints.

Copyright (c) 2008 Emile Jarreau