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Fat loss myths exposed
By Robert | November 15, 2008
Successful and permanent fat loss is something many of us make WAY too complicated. Fat loss is all in the math. It’s a little more complex than this depending on your body type, age, and personal habits, but generally speaking, one pound of fat stores around 3500 calories. Calories are a unit of energy. If you’re inactive, it takes a long time to use up calories because little energy is being expended. Calories only come in only thru food and drink. Less energy coming in, combined with more energy going out as activity, creates successful fat loss. All math, nothing more than cause and effect.
I watched a cable TV documentary where a man lost fourteen pounds in around 12 hours. How? He swam the English Channel. While not one of the most useful fat loss tips for many of us, it serves as a great example. Since he didn’t consume calories while swimming, his body had no choice but to use fat stores for energy- muscle and organ mass are affected slightly. Calories consumed as energy depends on the person and the activity. In his case, around 49,000 calories of energy were consumed from fat in 12 hours.
That’s how fat loss really works. It’s totally in the numbers. However, not taking an honest look at the cause and effect of this math will make easy fat loss next to impossible. Not being honest when it comes to what we eat- and how active we are- is where many of us set ourselves up for failure before even getting started.
So my number 1 successful fat loss tip: Take a totally honest look at what you eat and how active you are. You can’t fix an issue you refuse to see. All the free fat loss tips in the universe can’t help without a honest lookthe situation.
My next most helpful fat loss tip is to eat natural food. Junk food is just not what your body was designed to use. Highly processed foods make it even harder for your body to use the fat you have stored for fuel.
By the way, these real fat loss tips work for both men and women.
Next helpful fat loss tip: Get some exercise. Just like the guy that swam the channel, your body burns fat a lot faster when it’s being physically challenged. If I had to pick my all time favotite fat loss tip, it would be this: Do a intense twenty minute cardio workout first thing in the morning on a empty stomach. Then wait about an one hour before you eat. Then for your first meal, eat nothing but protein- let’s say eggs- for breakfast.
Do you understand why this fat loss tip works so well? You wake up with no fuel in your system, so when you exercise, your body has no choice but to burn body fat for fuel.
My last “fat loss explained” example is this: Take action. You can know every honest fat loss tip in the world, but it won’t do you any good until you begin doing something. This is very individual, but I would go about this one small step at a time. Trying to change all your habits at one time, while possible, can be very challenging. The real key to successful and permanent fat loss is learning what works for you- and then to never stop making progress in the right direction.
But know this, there are no short cuts. Fat loss only works ONE WAY. You must burn off more calories than go in. I hope to have exposed some fat loss myths. I have other free fat loss, diet, and fitness articles on my New Body New Life blog.
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