The No-Struggle Way to Lose Fat
May 7th, 2008
The easiet way to lose fat is to control what you put into your mouth, the food and beverages you ingest. This includes how much you eat and drink, and how you actually eat and drink, and where, when and why.
This is where true, healthy fat loss takes place.
Not to forget exercise, but I urge you to lose the idea that you have to work and sweat and exercise the fat off, put in the miles on the track or on the treadmill, hit the weights and really work out to shape up and burn the fat off the body.
The fat loss program I recommend includes moderately high intensity aerobic exercise a minimum of five days a week, and strength or resistance training three times a week too.
Any fat loss program must include exercise for it to work. Exercise not only burns calories, it also raises the metabolic rate. The body needs calories to operate, even if we do nothing all day. It needs calories to breathe, pump blood, digest food, etc. The metabolic rate for most people is about 75 percent of their total calorie expenditure, around 1,500 calories. You would need to jog 15 miles to burn that many calories.
If you diet, or cut calories, your metabolic rate slows down. Exercise has the effect of keeping the metabolic rate going even on fewer calories. The decrease in calories burned is balanced out when you exercise, and your body burns calories abundantly.
So exercise is important for fat loss, and it cannot be neglected. But remember that you need to jog 15 miles for burn 1,500 calories.
That statistic underlines how important what we eat really is. Even without exercise, our bodies are going to burn about 1500 calories every day. Only we determine what quality those calories are, by what we eat. It only makes sense to someone interested in overall health and fat loss to make everything we eat a top notch, premium fuel. Nutrient dense. Low fat. Foods that give you the best, healthiest bang from your overall caloric intake.
How I recommend you get that premium, high quality bang is by eating a balanced, plant-based diet of whole, fresh natural foods. Foods as grown, nothing added, nothing taken away. These are the premium fuels, low in fat, high in nutritional value and fiber. Excellent for fat loss.
Another huge fat loss factor is to make breakfast your main meal of the day. This might take some big changes for you but they are absolutely worth making.
And to really accelerate fat loss, eliminate the evening meal until you lose all the fat you want to lose. And do not snack between meals. Finally, make water your main beverage. These are the struggle-free ways to really lose fat.