To turn your body into a fat-burning machine, you need to eat to burn fat, exercise to get fit. Many dieters ask, “How do I burn more fat?” This is a common question for many dieters who want to lose weight. So it not just about losing weight, it is about burning fat.
You body type and goals will be a part of determining how much you will need to exercise. Its attractive to think that you could lose weight, and burn fat, without doing much of anything at all. There are products out there claiming that you do not need to exercise, but little evidence to prove that’s true.
To lose weight, the calories you take in daily must be less than the calories you burn each day. This is called a “calorie deficit.” Knowing the best and worst foods for you will help you make wise choices to achieve a healthy balanced diet. This fat-burning diet will most likely include more protien than carbohydrates.
In the process of losing weight you need to avoid losing muscle. The loss of muscle will slow down your fat-burning efforts, not to mention make it more difficult for you to achieve the sleek, toned body. By now, you may be wondering why losing muscle can make it more difficult to lose weight. Muscle is a metabolically active tissue that burns fat. When you create a deficit, the body turns to your stores of fat to fuel muscle activity. So while you are running a calories deficit you need to be eating the proper foods to maintain your muscle.
Burning fat happens when you exercise to a point where all available energy from carbohydrates is exhausted. Based on the research available, for most people having fat as the major energy source only occurs after 20 minutes into a cardio workout. The exercise period at the end of the cardio workout is when you body will be burning fat for energy.
To increase fat loss, you need to build muscle. Contrary to what you may think, you do not have to spend hours at the gym or look like a body builder to build enough muscle to promote higher levels of fat burning. If you are a woman, the thought of bulking up may be holding you back, but don’t let it. One, the female body normally does not contain enough of the hormone testosterone to get large muscles. Two, you do not have to build large amounts of muscle to get the results you want.
If you are crunched for time, you can incorporate strength-training to build muscle into your other daily activities. Lift hand weights or use a resistance band while watching television. On commercial breaks, do a few push ups or crunches. Do squats while supervising children in the bathtub. Unwind from a long day with Yoga or Pilates. They appear deceptively simply, but even those that are in good shape often have sore muscles after their first workout.
If your weight loss efforts have stalled after going smoothly for a while, building muscle can get you off the plateau. While you may not see a result right away on the scale, you will in your clothes and in the mirror. When you replace fat with muscle, it is more compact, which gives you a slim, toned appearance.
With proper cardio, nutrition and weight training, you become a fat-burning machine. To lose weight and get fit you need to eat to burn fat, exercise to get fit.
