So you have tried dieting to reduce weight. You have also poppedall kinds of weight reducing pills you can get your hands on. Toyour delight your effort seemed to work as you begin to losebody fat steadily. Then one day, before you reach your desiredweight, you begin to notice that your weight seemed to stay thesame even though you are still on the diet and popping thoseweight reducing slimming pills. To your horror, you discoverthat the weight you had lost is beginning to pile up once again.Instead of reducing weight, you are now gaining weight. Soundsfamiliar?
What happened? Simply put, slimming pills and fad diets are onlyshort term strategy to reduce weight and keeping body fat atbay. To reduce weight and lose fat forever, your caloricexpenditure must surpass your caloric consumption. Aren't youdoing that in your diet? Yes you are. But when you are on adiet, you go hungry and your body will signal to your brain toconserve fat for energy because your body is built with amechanism to conserve fat during famine and it will not knowwhether it is famine season or that you are on a diet. In thisinstance, your body will consume your muscle for energy insteadof your body fat and this spells trouble because your muscle isa great calorie gobbler. So with less muscle, your fat burningcapability grinds to a screeching halt.
What about those weight reducing pills you are taking? If youare popping appetite control pills, your body will react likeyou are on a diet, so the same thing happened. What about pillsthat help to increase metabolism or reducing starch intake?Sure, they will help to burn a few calories or restrict somecalories from turning into body fat, but are enough caloriesburnt or restricted to reduce weight permanently or are yougoing to take those unhealthy weight reduction pills forever?Obviously not, isn't it?
So to reduce weight and lose fat forever, we need to do 3 things.
* Cardio exercises - Do cardio exercises at 65-85% of yourmaximum heart rate to burn tons of calories
* Lift weight - Train with weights to grow muscle or at leastprevent muscle loss. The more muscle you have, the higher willbe your natural fat burning capability. You will burn fat evenwhen sleeping. In other words, you lose fat permanently.
* Eat small frequent meals - This will signal to your brain thatfood is in abundance and that your body need not conserve fat incase of famine. So eat 5- 6 meals at 3 hourly intervals.However, do make sure that your meals are small and that yourcaloric intake do not surpass your caloric expenditure.
When you incorporate these 3 elements into your lifestyle, youwill not only reduce weight and lose body fat, you will alsokeep the weight from creeping back. That means, you will reduceweight and able to maintain your ideal weight forever.
About the author:Chris Chew is a fitness personal trainer of actors, fashionmodels and male pageant winners. Check out his free articles at:- Reduceweight build muscle FitnessTips
