Diet Less, Exercise Less and Burn more Fat
Obesity is a bigger problem in the United States than ever before. Ironically, obesity awareness is also at its highest levels as well. Children are now learning about good fats, bad fats, trans fats and carbohydrates in grammar school but childhood obesity is currently a growing epidemic. Donut shops, coffee shops, bakeries and restaurants are now placing the total amount of calories in all their menu items to help us make smarter decisions. Billions of dollars are spent every year in weight loss products and services that help you lose weight, but with all the efforts being made, the obesity problem is only getting worse. Most people who do successfully lose weigh struggle to keep it off and eventually gain it back plus more. Why is that?
The reason is because most of us don’t understand how our body works and most of us don’t know the difference between losing weight and burning fat. Society teaches us to simply diet and exercise in order to lose weight and if the scale goes down, it’s always a good thing and if it ever goes up, it’s a bad thing. The reason why most of us want to lose weight is because we want to be slimmer, and the only way to be slimmer is by burning fat and only fat. The average person who does try to lose weight loses only 50 percent fat and 50 percent muscle. Muscle loss is never a good thing and only makes burning fat even harder. Muscle loss lowers your metabolism, makes you lethargic and causes bad posture as you age.
When tracking your body fat and making efforts to insure you’re losing 100 percent fat without muscle loss, you’ll burn fat much faster and it’ll be easier to keep it off because your maintained muscle will stlll be in place to burn calories. To maintain muscle, you need to eat more food and not less. Eating more food doesn’t always mean you’ll consume more calories. For example, it takes 6 bowls of broccoli to equal the number of calories in 1 snickers bar. You’ll eat more fiber rich foods and higher amounts of protein. You also must eat small meals often to have a constant pipeline of protein to feed your muscles.
It’s also important to understand how cardiovascular exercise helps you burn fat. Low intensity cardio exercise may burn more body fat than high intensity, but high intensity exercise burns more calories. Your goal in burning more body fat should always be creating a calorie deficit - not trying to target body fat with a specific exercise. High intensity exercise may burn less fat and more sugar during the exercise but as soon as the exercise is complete, your body will begin the regulation process of blood sugar and that sugar will be acquired by metabolizing body fat. This means that your body will continue burning fat even when you’re not exercising and even while you’re asleep. This process also increases your metabolism which causes you to burn fat 24 hours a day. Not just calories, but “fat calories”.
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