How Insulin Plays a Major Roll in Helping To Burn Body Fat

 

Insulin encourages body fat storage, but it also helps create an anabolic environment for muscle growth.
What you want to do is to keep your insulin levels as low as possible during rest periods (when you're inactive) and elevated after training.
Why you want to do this | Low insulin levels at rest help burn fat as long as calories are controlled. Elevated levels around training time prevent muscle loss and support anabolism--muscle growth.
How you do this?   Keep carbs low most of the day--stress low-carb vegetables and lean protein sources, such as egg whites, poultry, fish, and lean beef. Before and after training, make sure you eat carbs along with proteins. A rule of thumb while dieting is to eat .2 grams (g) of carbs just prior to training and .3 g afterward per pound of bodyweight. For someone weighing 200 pounds that would be 40 g before and 60 g after training. This creates an anabolic state during times when the body is most open to using body fat as fuel during and after training.