Losing Tummy Fat and Body Fat is Not Just About Calories
Written by man on June 5th, 2009 in Uncategorized.
If you want to know how to lose body fat, you should first understand that there is a difference between losing body fat and losing weight. When you lose weight, you will be losing a combination of fat and muscle. It is not muscle that makes you overweight, so the focus should be just on getting rid of fat.
There are 3500 calories in a pound of fat. So when you see people selling products that suggest that you can lose 5 pounds a week, it means that you will need to reduce 17,500 calories a week. This is a massive number of calories to cut back on. It is also an amount that your body cannot sustain.
This is the reason that diets based on low calories cannot be sustained, and why weight loss tends to slow down after a short time. Your body will reduce its calorie burning abilities because it feels that this sort of weight loss is dangerous. This will entail no fat loss, and a good chance of more fat gain.
Losing around 2 pounds of fat a week is more sustainable and more effective. This means getting rid of a thousand calories a day. Lowering your calorie intake in this way will mean muscle loss as well as fat loss. This is something that should be avoided.
How can you get around this? You need to seperate this 50/50. This means that you cut 500 calories from your daily diet, and lose the other 500 calories through physical activities (exercise). Fat is just a method your body uses to store energy, you get rid of energy by using it up. So if you exercise you will start to lose not only tummy fat, but all over body fat.
A good idea would be to reduce calories that you get from fatty foods, and foods high in carbohydrates, and take a few more calories from foods high in proteins. This will cut back on any muscle loss, and focus more on losing fat. Because you have cut back on fat and carbohydrates, there will be less chance of them being stored as fat.
Your exercise workouts should not just contain cardio work, it is important to incorporate some weight training. This enables you to hold onto muscle and increase the rate your metabolism works at , which equals to more effective fat burning.
Your requirement for more calories will increase after a month or so because of the exercise you are doing. This is fine because all it means is that your body is asking for more calories to cope with the exercise that you are doing. You will not gain fat by doing this. So at the end of the day, not only will you know how to lose fat, you will also after a short time go back to eating more calories.
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