The #1 Best Way to Burn Body Fat Fast

The best way to burn fat fast, naturally and in a healthy way is by increasing your metabolism.  Once you learn how to increase your metabolism you will find that you will burn fat quickly, and the fat will stay of permanently.  Increasing your metabolism is not hard, and below I will explain to you how to do it naturally. 

 

Why increase your metabolism?

 

-Because a slow metabolism will cause you to store body fat. 

 

When we lose weight, we also lose protein from our muscles. The faster we lose weight (by cutting down too much on our calorie intake), the more protein is used for energy; and when you lose too much protein from your muscles the result is a slow metabolism. This happens because your muscles need protein to grow and stay strong.

 

When protein is taken from your muscles, you lose muscle tissue. Muscle tissues are metabolically active and burn calories (even at rest). Your body needs calories to feed these metabolically active tissues so that it has energy to continue to burn calories. The calories that are burned also come from the fat that is stored in your body.  

 

So in other words, the more calories you eat, the more energy your metabolism has to burn the fat that is stored in your body. Without the calorie intake, your metabolism has no energy therefore it will slow down and you will burn fat at a very slow rate (if you burn any at all).

 

Having energy is not the only reason for a fast or slow metabolism. You see, when you significantly cut down on your daily calorie intake, your metabolism burns calories slower to prevent your body from starving. Being that your body now doesn’t know when you will feed it; your body will store the calories to be used later. The calories that are stored, are stored as fat.

  

 

Increase your metabolism and lose more body fat weight than water weight

  

When you lose protein from your muscles, you not only lose muscle tissue, but you will also lose water. Protein holds about 4 times its weight in water. To lose 10 pounds of body fat, you would need to burn 35,000 calories (3500 calories = 1 pound). If you lose those 10 pounds in one week do you honestly believe that it was body fat? The answer is no, only about 2 pounds was fat and the rest was water (Do not be fooled by what the scale says!) When you increase your metabolism, your body has a reason to hold onto the protein (remember protein holds water) and use the energy to burn fat. 

 

Yes you will lose some protein from your muscles even if you lose weight the right way. The key is to provide your muscles with enough protein each day so that it can not only replace your protein loss, but use the extra protein to help build new muscle tissue and stay conditioned.

  

    

Eat more food to increase your metabolism

  

Protein helps build muscle, but carbohydrates are your body’s main source of energy. When your body has a deficiency of energy (carbohydrates) and takes the protein from your muscles as energy, the protein is converted to carbohydrates before it’s used as an energy source. Therefore, when you eat, you must have the right amount of carbohydrates and proteins in your body so that energy can be used efficiently.

 

You must also eat more frequently to fuel your metabolism all day long. Eating at least 5-6 small meals each day will give your metabolism the continuous supply of energy it needs to burn fat longer and faster. If you are short on time and not able to cook, do not resort to eating junk food as one of your meals; instead opt for a good meal replacement product to satisfy your body.

 

  

Fat Burning Exercises increases your metabolism

  

Exercise in general burns calories. Weight training will help you to increase your metabolism (especially your resting metabolic rate) because that is how you condition your metabolically active muscles (interval training increases your resting metabolic rate too, and should be used instead of cardio).

 

Whenever you increase your physical activity, especially through fat burning exercises, you must increase the amount of calories you consume each day.

 

Remember, the more energy (calories) you give your muscles, the more energy it has to burn fat that is stored in your body. Also remember the less energy you give you body, the more protein will be taken from your muscles to be converted to carbohydrates as energy, which leads to a slow metabolism. 

 

If you want more information on increasing your metabolism and burning fat visit the Ultimate Fat Burning Secrets site.  

 

Burning Fat vs. Burning Calories

One of the reasons why people have a hard time getting into shape is because they think that losing weight is the same as losing body fat. This is simply not true. You must understand that when most diet or weight loss programs advertise losing a large amount of weight in a short period of time, they are not talking about losing body fat, they are talking about water weight. They know that most people assume that when they lose weight they are burning fat so they roll with that. So in reality they are not really lying to you, but they are only telling you half the truth by capitalizing on what you assume. They will not tell you that you are not losing much fat because they know that you think you are because your scale goes down. With that said, it is possible to lose a large amount of fat in a short period of time.

In order for fat loss to occur, your body must burn more calories than it takes in, but keep in mind that your body needs calories for energy and when you exercise; your body needs even more calories. Before I talk about energy, the first thing you must understand is that fat loss and weight loss is not the same thing. Just because you lose weight, does not mean you lose fat, and just because you lose fat, does not mean you lose weight. When people talk about losing weight, what the really want to do is lose body fat and obtain an attractive figure.

When you eat, the body uses most of the calories for energy. If you eat more calories than the body uses, it will get stored as fat. If you do not consume enough calories per day you will lose weight, but you will also lose energy. When you do not consume enough energy (calories) for your body, it will start using up your energy stores to make up for the energy deficiency. Unfortunately, the energy stores used is not your stored fat, but instead it’s protein and carbohydrates (carbs) that will supply most of the energy (stored fat makes up a very small percentage). Your body will take the protein and carbohydrates from your muscle cells; causing your muscle mass to reduce (say goodbye to that toned attractive look) which forces your metabolism to decrease (a low metabolism = slow or no fat burning). When this happens your body requires less energy to maintain its new lower body weight (remember the body weight is lower because you loss muscle), which is why your body conserves energy by slowing down the metabolism.

In other words, the body has adapted to the new lower energy (calorie) intake which means that you will no longer continue to lose weight or burn fat. Here is an example of the point I am trying to make:

Let’s say that you went on an 800 calorie a day diet when your body is use to getting 2,500 calories per day. Because you significantly reduced your calorie intake, the body saves energy by slowing down the metabolism (burning fat at a slower rate). Your metabolism decreases when the body starts taking the energy (protein) from the muscle cells. During this process you are losing weight because you are losing muscle (which is made up of water). Let’s say that you lose a total of 30 pounds, but for some reason you are not able to lose anymore weight. The reason you can’t lose anymore weight is because you body has adapted to only receiving 800 calories per day and your body has gotten to the point where it no longer recognizes an energy (calorie) deficiency. Your body has now officially become satisfied with 800 calories. So in order to lose weight now, you have to eat less than 800 calories.

Keep in mind that the weight you had lost in the first place was mostly water weight and you will eventually gain it back in the form of fat, not muscle (in order to get your muscle mass back to the way it was before, you have to work on rebuilding it). When carbohydrates and protein that are already in your body are used as the energy source, your body will lose water weight because both carbohydrates and protein hold water in the cells. In essence, you are dehydrating yourself to lose weight. So yes the scale will go down, but approximately 75% (if not more) of it is water instead of fat. And just so you know, exercising while consuming a small calorie intake just makes the situation worse. This is because when you exercise, you start burning off more energy and the more you workout, the more energy your body needs. I already told you above where the energy comes from, and if you do not give your body the energy it needs, it will just feed on your muscles even quicker now that you are exercising. So eat more food! In addition to this, when you cut down too much on your calorie intake, your body will start storing calories because it doesn’t know when you will eat again. The calories that are stored will be stored as fat. So in other words, when your body is storing energy, it’s basically storing more fat.

To summarize my point: Not eating enough calories results in muscle loss, dehydration, slower fat burning, and your body will always adapt to a lower calorie intake.

Bottom Line: if you can’t maintain that lower calorie intake for the rest of your life, you will gain your weight back when you get tired of starving yourself!

To lose weight (burn fat) properly you must increase your metabolism (weight training) and your need for oxygen (aerobics or interval training) while eating enough calories each day (nutritious diet) to give you energy and maintain the protein in your muscles because protein helps build muscles, which indirectly burns fat. This brings up another good point: When you build muscle your weight will increase because your muscles are made up of mostly water, but your body fat percentage will decrease because building muscles increases your metabolism (in other words, muscles way more than fat, but take up less space than fat). So keep in mind that losing body fat can’t be measured by a scale; use a measuring tape and also look at yourself in the mirror, and then you will see the true results.

Make sure that you focus on fat loss not weight loss. Your goal should be to lose weight by burning fat, not losing water from your muscles. Remember this when you choose your fat loss program.

The Only 3 Ways to Lose Belly Fat Fast

How do I know how to lose belly fat fast? Because once I stopped doing crunches, I started getting a flat stomach. If you really want to know how to lose belly fat then you first have to stop watching late night and weekend infomercials that feature a new ab machine every few months.

Those machines are a terrible way to lose belly fat. Some of them may help a little with strengthening your abs, but what’s the point of having strong abs with fat covered all over them?

There is only three ways you can lose belly fat fast: Developing fat burning nutrient dense eating habits, doing high intensity interval training, and ab stabilizing weight lifting routines (i.e. Pushups). The combination of these three things is the key to increasing your metabolism which will help you lose belly fat fast.

If you do one without the other, you may lose belly fat, but it won’t be fast. You’ve probably heard that you have to do aerobic workouts to burn the fat off your abs, and crunches to build the muscle underneath. Yes that works – but it’s the slowest way.

If you’re like me, you don’t have time to do boring cardio everyday, and 100 crunches every night. Even if you did have the time, once again, that will not burn belly fat fast. If you believe that it’s the fastest way, then you’re stuck in the ’90s… come on and move into the 21st century like the rest of us who know the truth about burning fat fast off of any part of the body.

Once again, to lose belly fat fast you must…

1. Focus on a fat burning nutrient dense diet

2. Make high intensity interval training apart of your workout routine

3. Do ab stabilizing weight lifting movements

The Ultimate Belly Fat Loss Site will help you learn more about how to lose belly fat.

The Reason Why I Couldn’t Lose My Abdominal Fat

I use to think that losing belly fat was all about doing crunches. For years fitness experts have been teaching us not to do situps, but crunches are the way to get six pack abs. I use to buy all of the popular ab machines you see on the infomercials thinking that I would get a good ab workout and a nice flat stomach. Well guess what? I was wrong.

I had been on a weight loss roller coaster for years, and back in 2003 I learned how to naturally speed up my metabolism and keep the weight off for good from Tom Venuto. As a matter of fact, my metabolism increased so much that I was eating junk food several times throughout the week yet I was still able to burn body fat.

The problem was that no matter how much fat I lost, I had never been able to get tight abs. Yes my abs had definition and was flat, but I wasn’t satisfied with that. I had fat covering the muscles, and the definition was just a basic outline of the defined abs that lied beneath.

Recently I was introduced to Mike Geary and his The Truth about Six Pack Abs program and now I finally understand what my problem was – I had been focusing too much attention on crunches. Crunches are excellent for building strong core strength, but terrible for getting definition.

The other problem was the junk food. I thought that I could eat anything I wanted because I was just going to burn it off anyway, but when it comes to abdominal fat that’s simply not the case. In order to lose a large percentage of belly fat and have your abdominal muscles show, you must have good eating habits. I am a living testimony of that fact. I don’t care how much fat you lose or how toned any other part of your body is, without eating properly, you will never get great abs.

Mike had taught me the truth about how the soy milk (which I thought was healthy) I was drinking was actually helping me to store body fat, and how multi joint free weight exercises were better ab workouts than crunches. As a matter of fact, doing pushups and squats burn abdominal fat faster than crunches. Don’t believe me? Try it and see.

If you really want toned flat abs with plenty of definition you must adopt the right eating habits, avoid food that help you to store fat (ie soy protein), and do multi joint free weight exercises.