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10 Things You Must Know About Fat Loss

By: famoustrainer Ever wondered why there are so many diets around out
there and people are just getting fatter and fatter. We now
know that fad and repeat dieting don't work, so what does!

I have put together 10 fat loss tips below and if followed will
make things a lot easier for you on your road to fat loss.

Lets have a look at a few:

Burn Fat: Lift Weights - Muscle determines the speed of
your metabolism - the speed of your metabolism depends
on how much muscle you have. That's why men burn fat
faster than women... They have more muscle. Women
could burn fat faster if they had more muscle.

Women are scared to lift weights because they will get
bigger muscles!!

If only this was were the case. Women do not have the
hormone levels to build big muscles, however they can
replace the muscle tissue lost through years of crazy
dieting, irregular eating habits and age.

Yes everybody is losing muscle, every year; every decade
because we are getting older, but only people who let their
muscles waste away have slower metabolisms as they get
older.

Keep your muscles and keep your fat burning machine!
The only way to do this is get strong and stay strong.

Toss The Scales - The scales tell you none of the things
you need to know about your body and everything you
don't.

They don't tell you how much fat you have under your skin,
they don't tell you how much skin for that matter. The
scales can't tell you how much fluid is in your body.

What your bones weigh and most importantly, how much
muscle you have? However, weighing yourself can turn a
perfectly good day into a miserable day?

Don't let an inanimate, household item determine what
kind of day you will have! They are not accurate so throw
them away.

Muscle Vs Fat - Muscle weighs two times as much as fat
yet takes up half the space. Muscle is responsible for
burning fat. Muscle is small when compared with fat.
Muscle never hangs off your body in unsightly lumps.

Muscle looks toned, tight, strong and lean. Muscle is tight
and hard to the touch and muscle is heavy. Fat is lumpy
and soft and flabby, fat takes up a lot of space, fat hangs off
your body. Fat is also soft to the touch and does not weigh
as much as muscle.

Always Eat Breakfast - Research has concluded that
having breakfast is important to kick-start the metabolism
for the day, the body slows down whilst sleeping and food
first thing in the morning actually awakens the body ready
for the rest of the day.

Also try eating more fibre at this time as it helps the
digestive system work more effectively and will help keep
the blood sugar levels spread evenly throughout the day.

Don't Cut Back On Calories - Food has a heating effect on
the body increasing your metabolic rate; don't eat less than
1200 calories, as this will throw the body into a starvation
mode. Your metabolism will then slow down to conserve
the calories that you do have.

Try to avoid fad diets if possible as they restrict or reduce
the nutrients flowing to the body, which in turn slows down
the metabolic rate.

Eat Small Regular Meals - Eat five or six small meals a
day as this will trick the body into thinking that there is an
abundance of food and will stop your metabolism from
slowing down, keeping your sugar levels at a normal level
and this will stop you overeating.

Try eating the majority of your food earlier in the day, as
the majority of the calories will be burned up while you are
awake and active.

Count Calories - The way to keep track of weight loss is to
buy a calorie counter and record your daily calorie intake
for a week. Average out your calories for the day and then
decrease the calories by 300 - 500 (No More) then gauge
what happens.

By decreasing the amount of calories per day to this
amount you should start losing weight. Don't go any lower;
check the mirror as well as the scales to judge your
progress.

Don't Repeat Diet - Research shows repeated dieting
actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier to put it
on because when you dump the diet and return to normal
eating habits the drop in metabolic rate caused by the diet
means that your old habits actually represent an excess in
calories.

Not only do you regain the fat stores just lost, but also you
may even gain an extra bit. If you find your weight loss
starting to slow or stop over a period of time, increase your
walking pace a little or throw in a couple of hills along your
route.

Keep Track Of Fats - This may appear difficult to maintain
and calculate but it isn't. On nearly all packaged food these
days there is a nutritional label with a fat indicator per
100gms of that particular food.

What your looking for here is a figure below 10 gms and
nearing 5 gms would be the ideal. So purchasing and
consuming foods around this range you'll be on your
weight loss target.

The Low down On Fats - It is stored in the fat cells of the
body. The number of fat cells is estimated to be around 50
billion for the average person. It can be up to 100 billion for
the obese person.

Fat cells are like storage tanks of energy to be used for
later use. It has been shown that obese people who binge
eat may stimulate baby fat cells to sprout to increase the
number of fat cells.

Believe me, once you start applying these 10 tips to your
everyday weight loss regime you will start to notice the
difference in a short period of time.

Article Source: http://www.lifeweightloss.com

Gary Matthews is the author of the popular fitness eBooks Maximum Weight Loss and Maximum Weight Gain. Please visit www.maximumfitness.com right now for your 'free' weight loss e-course.

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