How to Effectively Burn Fat for Maximum Weight Loss

Most of us are concerned about our weight whether it be for health reasons or just plain confidence. We have been told that we must exercise and eat right, but still have not been able to achieve our goals to lose weight and look good. This article intends to explain the actual process of fat burning so that we can have a complete understanding of what may be hindering us from burning fat after we have worked so hard with no avail.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• An open mind and a desire to change your eating and exercise habits.

1. Educate yourself on the fat burning process. When we exercise, we are not burning fat at that moment. Actually you are triggering hormones to burn fat. Fat burning and fat accumulation actually take place while you sleep. Ever went to sleep and woke up fat? There are 6 fat-burning hormones and 3 fat making hormones and each are triggered by different things (Berg 2006). Therefore you must educate yourself on what triggers the right hormones for the maximum benefit. The triggers mainly lie in what we eat, of course exercise is just as important, but if we're eating the wrong foods, exercise will do you no good. That's why you can't eat what you want, exercise and still lose weight.

2. Change your Diet. And most of all DON'T DIET!!! Changing your diet means it will be a permanent change. You should educate yourself about what's in the food that you're currently eating. For example, some of us have stop drinking sodas and moved on to drinking non carbonated drinks. I read the label on EVERYTHING I buy. If it has high fructose corn syrup in it, I don't buy it. For those of you who don't know, words that end with the letters "ose" are sugars and sugar is one of the main fat making triggers. Other examples of changes in my diet I've made that I suggest are whole grain breads- no white bread period, no white sugar, use date sugar, honey, Stevia, etc. as substitutes, no white flour, no white pasta, no junk food or processed foods, no fried foods, and cooking more so that you will have more control over the ingredients in your food. In addition to cooking, buy a juicer so you can have control over what you drink as well. Having control is very important in changing your diet. Staying away from junk foods was the hardest for me because I have children who like junk food. I had to replace their junk food with healthy foods like fruit and whole grain crackers. That's why it is important to learn about the ingredients in our foods that we buy. If you research some of them, you might be surprised. I did, and that was the motivation for me to change my own diet and stop feeding the junk food to my children.

3. Exercise. You should not exercise too much or too little. Remember, exercise triggers fat burning hormones. However, you also don't want to put your body under too much stress damaging your body and triggering yet more fat making hormones. Too much negative stress triggers fat making hormones. You should choose to do aerobic, low intensity, enurance, low-pulse rate exercise or anaerobic exercise, higher-intenseity, resistance, higher-pulse-rate exercise.

4. Get some sleep!!! Fat burning takes place while you are sleep. You need at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Interrupting one's sleep can interrupt the fat burning process.

5. Finally, sum it all up. Get healthy to lose weight and not lose weight to get healthy!!

Resources

• The 7 Principle of Fat Burning

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on 7/24/2008 great article. 8)

[onehappylassie]

on 11/6/2007 GREAT STUFF! Love yer attitude girl.

[onehappylassie]

on 11/6/2007 GREAT STUFF! Love yer attitude girl.