Secrets Of A Fat Loss Diet
Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2009
by Ralph Pedersen
http://www.lose-belly-now.com
Lots of people want a trim and fit body and go looking for the fat loss secrets that will help them achieve their goal. To be able to share these would be terrific how-ever there is no great secret to be shared, there are just facts.
The fact is that we are consuming way more that our bodies need or can handle, add to that the fact that it is often the wrong kinds of food and we have a real problem.
The next fact is that even though we are over consuming we are not exercising anywhere near enough. Calories were used up by our ancestors gathering food just to stay alive. At that time food was a struggle to find and was only found once in a while, so our bodies got used to storing this surplus food as fat.
Today many of us in the developed world are office bound, and sitting of a chair for hours, which doesn't take much energy, or use many calories, and then we ride to and from work and spend the day eating the wrong kind of food.
So the first thing we need to concentrate on for our fat loss diet is to reduce the quantity of food we eat, we just don't need it. Overeating is often caused because of cravings and we need to find other activities to replace this.
We then need to eat more of the right kinds of food, replacing those fatty foods with fresh fruit and vegetables along with modest portions of low fat protein sources such as lean meat.
The next thing we need to do is increase our exercise. If we can find some opportunities throughout the day do do some exercise even if it is small, our metabolism will increase. We can speed up calorie burn by building up muscle mass. Calories are used by muscles just to maintain themselves, which is not the same for fat which just sits there as storage. Skeletal support is also provided by our muscles which helps to prevent injury.
To really make progress with our fat loss diet we need to engage the large muscle groups as much as possible. These burn the calories at a much higher rate than the small muscle groups which are also harder to target.
The leg muscles are the single biggest muscles and the best ones to engage in a workout. Exercises that use multiple muscles will also burn more calories in the same time than concentrating on single muscle groups. If we can use the larger muscles we will get faster results losing fat.
Exercises such as squats and overhead presses with free weights engage nearly all the major muscle groups including the legs, back muscles, and the arms.
The final step in losing that weight is to increase the intensity level of any exercise done. We should do this carefully with a planned program that allows are bodies to get used to the increased intensity. Exercises such as interval training are very good because they are performed at different intensity levels.
Using this type of program will burn more calories than a program involving long slow endurance type training and is therefore more suited to weight loss. As the body recovers significant calories will continue to be burnt for some time after exercise. Commitment to this type of program for say 3-4 times every week for even 20 minutes a time will see some real gains.
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