GUIDE TO LOOSING FAT

Loosing fat is about burning more calories than you take in. However, Fat Loss can be accelerated if you adopt a Weight Loss Lifestyle. 

If you would like to significantly accelerate your fat loss program, there are a number of changes you need to make to your lifestyle, these are:

a. Give up Alcohol ; Alcohol acts as a prohibitory in your bloodstream, stopping your body burning fat as fuel. Alcohol also leads to muscle loss, which results in the lowering of your metabolic rate.

b. Eat fresh fruit rather than fruit juice ; Although fruit juice is healthy, it is not recommended due to its sugar and the excess calories. Its much less fattening, and healthier, if you got your vitamins and minerals from the actual whole fruit rather than the fruit juice.

c. Stop eating out ; When we eat out, we have very little control over the ingredient used in your order. In addition, we tend to try to finish our plate when we eat out. However, when you cook at home, you not only know exactly what ingredient is used, you also tend to eat smaller portions.

d.Eat food with low Glycaemic Index (GI) value ; Using Glycaemic Index for weight loss is a very safe and effective way of loosing weight. Refined foods such as white bread, white pasta, white rice etc. have high Glycaemic Index (GI) value which means you will feel hungry soon after you have eaten. This means you will get a craving to eat more often which effects your daily calorie intake.

e. Do not eat carbohydrate after 5PM ; Most people tend not to exercise enough in the evening, and considering the metabolic rate slows down in the evenings, eating carbohydrate after 5PM is not a good idea. This is because the energy in the carbohydrates would not be used up (as it would in mid day when you are still active) before you go to bed. This therefore will result in the excess energy being stored as fat.

f. Eat often and a little ; The best and the most important fat loss tip is to eat often but a little. This will result in your body speeding up its metabolic rate and burning the stored fat. So loose weight by eating often and a little! It also puts less of a strain on the digestive system.

g. Eat a healthy breakfast ; Research has shown that the people who skip breakfast tend to find it hard to shift their stored fat. This is because eating a healthy breakfast will help to speed up your metabolic rate.

h. Drink iced water ; Drinking iced water will help you loose weight in several ways. Firstly, your body needs to burn calories to heat up the iced water to your body's temperature. Secondly, quite often people feel hungry not because they are hungry but because they are thirsty. Thirdly, it helps to keep the kidneys functioning properly which stops the liver working over-time to help the kidneys function properly.

i. Exercise before a meal ; By exercising before a meal, you will speed up your metabolic rate, which will result in your body not storing the calories you are about to eat as fat.

j. Drink Green tea ; Research has shown that drinking Green Tea will slightly increase your metabolic rate. Its therefore good idea to drink green tea half an hour before a meal.

k. Relax ; Stress produces the hormone Cortisol, which causes the body to store fat.

l. Exercise often and regular ; Stay away from ready made meals and junk foods which effect weight loss!

m. Eat weight loss foods ; Weight loss foods are foods that promote weight loss by speeding up your metabolic rate.