Dieting Doesn’t Burn Fat
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. If you have a burger at lunchtime, 10 minutes extra cardio later on in the day doesn’t work, and you will end up getting fatter.
Exercise is important when you’re burning fat, and you must eat the right foods to give you the energy to exercise. A diet that has gotten a lot of media attention over the last few years is the low carb diet. And these fad diets have been backed by famous celebrities because of the rate in which they help you lose weight.
Low carb diets burn muscle as well as help you to lose fat from your body, and this muscle loss causes your metabolism to slow down. 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.
Carbohydrates feed your muscles and give them the energy you need to exercise. Carbohydrates also make you feel better mentally. If you leave carbs out of your diet you’ll soon get depressed when you leave carbohydrates out of your diet.
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.