If you want a great Nutrition plan, which will never let you down or go wrong then the rule of the thumb is to plan your diet around meats, fish and eggs. These contain a lot of quality calories, which are rich in class one proteins, vitamins, minerals and quality fats. Trust me; with this kind of a Nutrition Plan you can achieve your desired results.
Designing of a workable Meal Plan
It has been noticed that at most of the times Meal Plans tend not to be as result oriented as expected. They possess inherent flaws and go wrong when the meals are designed around merely the function of calories consumption, based on the naive assumption that all macro-nutrients perform the same metabolic function in the body and that all food which is consumed is equally nutritious (a conclusion far from the fact). Also, there are endless myths surrounding the consumption of carbohydrates, which is far beyond the understanding of a common man, who wants to follow a healthy and nutritious meal plan.
Having said that, the popular recommendation (compelled by pressure from the animal activists on ethical implication of consuming larger quantity of meat, analysis by economists on larger resource requirements to maintain animal farms and equally compelled by commercial, corporate & capitalist interest) based on healthy eating means consuming copious amounts of bread, breakfast cereals, pastas, vegetable starch and other forms of carbohydrates. These Meal Plans effectively denote that foods rich in carbohydrates serve as the base of your meal plan and that every other food group is eaten around carbohydrates. This approach can however, only feed fat to the body and inadequately feed the functional components of the human system such as production of hormones, enzymes and growth of lean tissues.
The Carbohydrate-Fat connection
A diet rich in carbohydrates encourages an environment which rapidly pushes and converts calories consumed into fat, whereby, storing the fat calories in the fat tissues of the body and increasing their size. The impact and influence of such a diet can be seen in the form of high, ill managed blood sugar and a concomitant raise in the insulin levels post meals.
On the other hand, calories from proteins and fats, especially fat calories, have a modest-to-low impact on the insulin levels observed in the body post a meal. This implies a favorable environment for the body to keep fat burning activity up and running. It also ensures that an optimal level of body's preferred source of energy i.e. body fat, is quickly restored in a state of relative rest as well as in a state of aerobic respiration.
Therefore, the best meal strategy for fat loss in any given day and post meal is to minimize the intake of starch and sugar and plan the meal around fats and protein. Calories gained under this methodology doesn’t only provide and encourage fat burning activity in the body but are also the best and proven sources of class one proteins and essential fats, rich in vitamins and minerals. This would lead to optimal biochemical processes of the body and helping one to achieve the desired results.