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High calorie foods and dishes containing fatty dairy products, and high saturated fat. If you must eat something really fattening, eat only small, cautious and infrequent portions. Whenever possible avoid rich dressings and dips altogether. Don’t eat desserts before bed and avoid anything two hours before bedtime if possible. You do not burn a lot of calories while sleeping. Calories in your stomach during sleep risk being stored as fat. Try to get in the habit of eating for what you are going to do, instead of what you have done. If you are going to be burning a lot of calories, eat more complex-carbohydrates. If you are going to be lying around, eat less.

As your diet may be lacking in the essential vitamins and minerals, it is a good idea to get a time-released multivitamin. Get something a little better than Centrum. Most gym and health food stores offer a variety of good and effective vitamin formulas. A power/shake mix is another useful aid in your quest for a faster, more efficient metabolism. It is an easy way to get in a quick meal replacement, but don’t make these the bulk of your diet. Try to limit yourself to around two liquid meals daily with the other 2-4 meals being solid meals. The shakes contain high quality protein; some even contain carbohydrates, so pick one you like and use it in conjunction with your food. Supplement shakes are a quick alternative to eating a meal.

A shake can be blended up on the run, quickly and efficiently. Meals need to be eaten more frequently and in smaller portions, three to four hours apart. Frequent meals are important in helping to speed up your metabolism. Speeding up your metabolism is the only way to permanently lose body fat and obtain lean muscle mass. When you begin eating your meals more frequently your body will begin to burn energy at a faster rate. A faster metabolism will result in more calories being burned during the day, as well as giving you higher levels of energy. Eat 4-6 small meals each day!

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The Clinton administration opposes a House Republican plan to replace a dozen public feeding programs with a block grant to states, a senior Agriculture Department official told senators Thursday. “The administration opposes block grants for the nation’s nutrition programs,” Deputy Agriculture Secretary Richard Rominger said in testimony to the Senate Budget Committee. It was the first time the administration had declared its opposition. It suggested an alternative “reform agenda” that would give states more discretion. Under the Republican plan, a dozen nutrition programs, including school lunch and food stamps, would be converted to a block grant for states to run as they wish, but with lower funding.

The Agriculture Department spends about $37 billion a year on the nutrition programs. “Clearly the status quo must be changed, but we believe that block grant proposals…would not achieve the nutrition and health outcomes that our programs have historically achieved and that are in the national interest,” Rominger said. “Between block grants and the status quo is a reform agenda for nutrition assistance,” he said. Rominger said the reform agenda would give states more flexibility, assure Americans access to an adequate diet, cut down on cheating and “demands personal responsibility.”

The department will soon present its plans for improving the food stamp program, Rominger said. House committees are slated to begin work next week on bills to create the nutrition block grants. Like the administration, antihunger activists have been working on an alternative to the Republican plan. Proponents say states will run food programs more efficiently because they are more attuned to local needs. An Agriculture Department analysis says the funding cuts that are part of the Republican plan would push several million people off aid rolls in the first year.