In order to get your body into "fat burn" mode, it is necessary to
understand how your body metabolizes or uses food and fat.
Your body requires fuel for simply staying alive, but it also requires
fuel for any activities in which you engage. Normally your body burns a
mix of fat and carbohydrates in glucose form, for its fuel.
The proportion of fat to glucose burned depends on the type of physical
activity as well as what your intake has recently been. As long as your
intake is ample, your body will normally burn fuel derived from your
intake and never resort to consuming its fat stores.
Naturally, when you expend more energy than your food intake provides,
then the body turns to its stored fat to fuel your activities.
This is basically the same thing that happens when people are faced with
starvation. The body begins to consume itself for energy to keep the life
sustaining organs functioning. It begins to burn the fat and even moves
into consuming your muscle to sustain life.
So when your goal is to burn fat for weight loss, your diet and exercise
activities must be geared to turn your body into a "fat burn" mode. This
may be difficult to achieve at first, but once your body gets into the
mode, it becomes easier.
If you presently have excess body fat, then obviously your present
diet/activity combination has not been adequate to prevent your body from
storing fat. Weight gain or weight loss are basically simple math: Input
minus usage equals calories left over to go to fat storage.
Although there are a number of factors that have bearing on the amount of
fat storage or depletion, ther are basically two steps to fat burn:
Number one is of course diet. First of all total calories eaten must be
limited to what is required for maintenance and normal activities.
Secondly, the foods eaten must be lower in fat content and simple
carbohydrates. You should consume higher amounts of the following to
maintain your muscle content and burn calories during digestion:
Lean Beef, fish, poultry
Skim milk
Whole grain cereal
Oats
Low fat yogurt
Eggs
Beans
Peppers
Coffee, green tea
Fruits with vitamin C
Nuts
Raw vegetables
Number two is exercise. You must engage in longer duration aerobic type
exercises which cause the body to burn more fat instead of sugar. These
exercises include:
Jogging
Walking
Bicycling
Swimming
Treadmill and elliptical training routines
Do exercises that involve more muscle groups. Gear your exercise to a
moderate pace for longer periods of time. This will keep your body burning
calories long after your exercise ends.
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