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The Best Way to Lose Weight
The best way to lose weight is really quite simple. You have to follow
a fat loss nutrition plan and increase your physical activity.
But far too many people try to lose weight the wrong way. They go on a
very low calorie diet and do little or no exercise.
You'll lose weight initially on a very low calorie diet, but you'll
often lose more water than body fat since very low calorie diets tend to
be dehydrating.
A very low calorie diet will also cause your body to go into "starvation
mode." Once your body is in starvation mode, your metabolism will slow down,
you'll lose muscle as your body starts using muscle for energy, and it will
become very difficult to lose body fat as your body tries to hold on to its
fat stores.
The combination of hunger and fat loss becoming very difficult is what
causes people to give up on very low calorie diets. And once the diet is
over, most people go back to their old eating habits and end up gaining back
any weight that they lost - only now they have less muscle and a slower
metabolism.
You have to forget about drastically reducing calories if you want to
effectively lose weight and keep it off. Instead, you have to follow a fat
loss nutrition plan and increase your physical activity. Here's why this is
the best way to lose weight.
A fat loss nutrition plan is based on cutting back on calories, not on
drastically reducing them. It's also based on you as an individual - your body
type, your genetics, your metabolism, and what mix of protein, carbohydrate
and fat works best for you. A fat loss nutrition plan is not a temporary way
of eating like a diet is, it's a healthy way of eating that can be followed for
a lifetime.
Increased physical activity, in the form of aerobic exercise and weight
lifting, is just as important as a fat loss nutrition plan when it comes to
losing weight. Both aerobic exercise and weight lifting burn calories, and
weight lifting also builds and maintains lean muscle mass. Lean muscle mass
is metabolically active tissue, which means that the more lean muscle mass you
have the higher your metabolism will be. The higher your metabolism, the more
calories your body burns to maintain itself.
When you combine a fat loss nutrition plan with aerobic exercise and weight
lifting, each one complements and enhances the others, resulting in maximum
fat loss in a healthy and safe way.
But if following a fat loss nutrition plan and increasing physical activity
is such an effective way to lose weight, why don't more people follow this
template?
It's because there are so many diet programs and weight loss products that
are advertised as being fast and easy - and fast and easy sells. But if there
was such a thing as fast and easy weight loss, there wouldn't be so many
overweight and obese people.
Following a fat loss nutrition plan and increasing physical activity requires
making lifestyle changes, but it truly is the best way to lose weight.
Recommended Resource
Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle shows you how
to create a fat loss nutrition plan and how to use aerobic exercise and weight
lifting in conjunction with it. Read my review of Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle
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