The Best Fat Loss Programs

Many weight loss and fat loss experts are introducing new programs to consumers every year making it hard to know which are the best fat loss programs to lose the greatest amount of fat in the shortest amount of time. Another problem is choosing a fat loss program that will help you to lose weight permanently by burning fat naturally.

The first thing that you must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not the same thing. Many weight loss programs have tricked people into thinking that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss programs only work by causing a person’s body to lose more muscle tissue and water than actual body fat.

Do you want to lose muscle tissue or fat, and do you want to lose fat permanently? How about losing fat naturally so you won’t waste money on expensive and unhealthy diet pills or formulas that only last temporarily (if they work at all)? A good diet plan is not a temporary fix; it is a permanent solution that you can stick to. Weight loss is a broad term. Just because the scale goes down does not mean your body fat went down too. Don’t be fooled!

There is one very important change that you must make starting today…

If you really want to lose body fat, then stop using the term “weight loss”; instead say “fat loss or fat burning”.

Below are 6 lessons that the best fat loss programs will teach you:

1. Explain to you the difference between losing fat weight vs. losing muscle weight. If your fat loss program does not explain to you the process your body has to go through in order to burn fat, then more than likely your the plain is more focused on you losing muscle tissue, water, and protein. They don’t tell you this, instead they food you by saying how much “weight” or “pounds” you will lose in a short time frame. Think about where the weight is coming from.
(hint: Most fat loss programs that work will advertise themselves as fat loss programs. In other words, they will not use the term “weight loss” they will focus on words such as “fat loss” and “fat burning”.)

2. Have an eating plan that is flexible and can be customized to fit your health needs. No two people are alike. Your eating plan should take your current health and fitness level into consideration. If the fat loss program’s eating plan can not be customized, then move on. Also, if the program is only about fat burning exercises, then that program isn’t right for you either. You absolutely must learn about fat burning nutrition along with working out.

3. Have a fat burning workout routine. An eating plan is only one half of an effective fat loss program. You must include fat burning exercises if you expect to lose body fat weight permanently and in a healthy natural way. If the fat loss program is only about fat burning nutrition, then that is not a program, it is a diet. You don’t want a diet you want a complete fat burning program.

4. Explain to you the importance of having Carbs, Protein, Fiber, Etc. in your diet. The best fat loss programs go in depth in explaining to you the functions of each of these vital nutrients and how they work together to burn fat quickly in your body. An effective fat burning plan will never trick you into believing that one nutrient is better than the other. The fact is, your body needs all the nutrients to perform certain functions. If you have too much of one and not enough of the other, then your body will not function properly which damages your health and your potential to burn fat.

5. Explain to you how you will be able to keep the body fat off permanently and continue to burn fat. What is the point of losing fat if it’s only for a short period of time? You need to know how to continue to burn fat repeatedly. The key to permanent fat loss is by increasing your metabolism. This is also the quickest way to burn fat. Any fat loss program that is serious about permanent fat loss will explain to you about how to lose fat without destroying your metabolism.

6. Explain to you how you can burn fat fast. Most fat loss (not weight loss) programs are very good at helping you burn fat fast. Rapid fat loss occurs naturally when you combine the right eating plan and exercise routines (because this increases your metabolism). You should have no problem with learning the fastest way to lose fat if the program focuses on both diet and exercise.

The Fat Loss Program Reports site chose The Truth About Six Pack Abs as their #1 recommended program, but personaly I feel that Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle gives you a better understanding of how to increase your metabolism.  I’ve used both programs and you really can’t go wrong with either one.

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.  

 

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.