Our recipes will get you burning fat – but without going hungry

ENSURING you eat enough goodquality protein every day is the best way to reduce hunger, avoid cravings and preserve your muscles. But don’t overdo it.

As I explained in yesterday’s Daily Mail, most of the time, your body is fuelled by a combination of fat and sugar.

Only when your glucose stores start to run down (because you are fasting, exercising heavily or haven’t eaten any carbs for a while), it switches over to burning fat in a major way.

Your body does this by releasing fatty acids from your fat stores and converting them into chemicals called ketone bodies. These can be used by most cells in your body as fuel.

This is the fat-burning state we are aiming at.

But too much protein (more than 30 per cent) can hinder this process.

My wife and a team of nutritionists have developed delicious recipes with exactly the right calibration of proteins and carbohydrates to help you get all the nutrients you need to ensure you are burning fat but without going hungry. You’ll find a selection of these recipes in the Daily Mail from tomorrow until Wednesday.