Losing belly fat is not the easiest thing in the world, so when you are engaged in a process like this you will need all the available tips that you can get.
In this article I will reveal the real metabolism boosting foods that can really help you to get rid of your belly fat.
Foods rich in protein
Probably you don’t know this, but foods rich in proteins increase the metabolism, mainly because proteins have a thermogenic effect of 30%.
The thermogenic effect of food (TEF) is the amount of calories which the body burns from a particular macronutrient to digest it, our macronutrient in this case being protein.
So, for example if you will eat a meal that has 50 grams of proteins in it, theoretically you should get around 200 calories, because 1 gram of protein has 4 calories. But in reality you will only get only 70% from that amount of calories, mainly 140 calories.
Foods rich in proteins: lean meats, eggs, skim milk…