Dieting Doesn’t Burn Fat
Posted on January 18, 2009
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Any successful weight loss/fat burning program relies on a healthy diet. Without a carefully planned diet you won’t be able to burn fat even with a good exercise program. An extra 10 minutes of cardio isn’t go to burn off that burger you had at lunchtime.
You need energy to exercise when you’re burning fat from your body. One diet that has been all over the media on the last few years is the low carb diet. Celebrities have helped the rise of this diet by endorsing it, and recommending it a s a safe way to lose weight.
Low carb diets burn muscle as well as help you to lose fat from your body, and your metabolism will slow down when you lose muscle. While you’re on the diet you’ll be happy at the weight you’re losing, but when you start eating a normal diet again the pounds will pile back on with extra weight as well.
You need to exercise to speed up your metabolism, and you need to eat carbs to have the energy to exercise. Carbohydrates are also a feel good food. Depression soon sets in when you cut carbs from your diet. And a diet is suppose to make you feel good.
Low fat diets are another fad diet. You only need to start cutting down on your fat intake is if you’re suffering from an illness such as heart disease. Fat is as important as any other macro nutrient if your goal is to lose weight.
You don’t get fat by eating too much fat. Your weight loss program will have a massive benefit from eating healthy unsaturated fats. Healthy fats are also important for the regeneration of your body’s cells. Fish oils such as omega 3’s are now well known for being good for the brain because the brain is largely made of fat. many vitamins are fat soluble so your body needs fat to store and transport these to the cells in your body.
Protein is food for your muscles so this a very important for your weight loss program. When you feed your muscles they get bigger, and then your metabolism increases. Your metabolic rate needs to be increased in order for you to burn fat. With a higher metabolic rate your body will burn more calories even while you’re resting.
On top of your food combining you need to introduce a good exercise program into your fat burning regime. Your muscles will start to grow when you exercise, and you also burn extra calories. When your muscles grow you increase your metabolism, and your body burns fat faster then you could have imagined.
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