May 16, 2007
How to Lose Fat Fast
If your goal is to lose fat fast you need to concentrate on just two things, eating right and getting enough exercise. Unfortunately the media, women’s gossip magazines and so on make the idea of how to lose fat fast a much bigger deal than it really is. As long as you keep listening to the media and telling yourself that you can’t lose fat and you certainly can’t lose fat fast than that is what you will get. Start using some positive autosuggestion or positive affirmations instead of telling yourself you can’t lose fat and the moment those positive affirmations filter into your subconscious mind you might be surprised when you start to lose fat fast.
While telling yourself at regular times throughout the day that you can lose fat fast, the first thing you can do is have a long hard look at your regular diet. When considering how to lose fat fast you need to cut back firstly on any of the foods you eat containing sugar. If you eat a lot of sweets, chocolate, ice cream or drink sugary carbonated drinks you will never lose fat fast and probably never lose fat at all. Don’t get down on yourself either and start saying things like “I can’t do it” or “It’s just too hard”. Comments like these will never help you to lose fat fast and will never help you with any of your other endeavors in life.
You don’t need to do everything at once just start by cutting back on the sweets at first and then once you have successfully done that than cut back on the complex carbohydrates like bread and potatoes especially and only eat moderate amounts of other complex carbs like rice, pasta and cereals. If you can do this you are well on your to understanding how to way to lose fat fast. Just remember it’s only one step at a time if you want to lose fat fast. If you try and do everything at once you won’t lose fat fast you will probably get overwhelmed by it all and quit and than you won’t lose fat at all.
After you have successfully cut back on the sweets and complex carbohydrates it’s time for phase 3 to lose fat fast and that is to cut back on your fat intake. Cut back on foods that contain a lot of oil, stop using butter and margarine all together, you simply do not need butter and margarine in your diet at all. Watch the amount of fat in the meats you eat, try to only buy the lean cuts of meat and chicken without skin. If you eat out avoid the fatty foods and only eat junk foods or fast foods as a special treat if you have been sticking to your lose fat fast diet with consistency.
Ok, now you have got your diet under control it’s time to incorporate some exercise to really help you lose fat fast. How to lose fat fast comes down mainly to your diet I believe but exercising will allow you to speed up the process and how much you speed it up is completely up to you and basically depends on how much time you devote to exercising.
The most effective way regarding how to lose fat fast when it comes to exercising is simply walking. Yes walking is the best exercise for losing fat fast. Let me explain why. When you walk it is a generally low intensity exercise for the body so your body only needs a simple source of fuel and the fuel source it will use is fat. If you run it is a much more high intensity exercise and requires a more potent source of fuel than fat can provide so it first uses the available food in your system as energy and than when that runs out it uses amino rich muscle tissue. So in a nut shell if you want to know how to lose fat fast you are better off walking instead of running.
The best time to exercise is in the morning before you eat and at this time your body will use more fat for energy than at any other time in the day. So to lose fat fast it comes down to a simple step by step procedure like I just mentioned. First cut back on the sweets, then cut back on the complex carbs, then lower your total fat intake and lastly you need to exercise as often as you have time. The more you exercise the better you will feel and this will accelerate your quest to lose fat fast and when you do you can reward yourself with a special treat of what ever food you like. If you can get on the track to lose fat fast you need to reward yourself every now and then because you deserve it.
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