Monday, November 16, 2009

How to Reduce Weight and Lose Body Fat

By Joen Devenport

1. The weight loss which occurs in those first few days would more than likely be a combination of fat, water and muscle.

2. If you are losing muscle it is as your body has gone into starvation mode and is in reality started to consume itself!!

3. Losing water is often something which happens at the start of the diet especially if you are suffering from any sort of water retention. This is only likely to have such a spectacular effect in the first week of your diet and would finally settle down.

4. Week 2 may not be so easy. You may start to feel hunger stings or even food cravings.

5. The body goes into starvation mode thinking which it isn't going to get enough food and so the metabolism decelerates to counterbalance and the chances of you being able to lose fat becomes more unmanageable.

6. Very soon after the first 7 -14 days you are likely to plateau. Your body needs time to adjust to the spectacular changes it is feeling and you may even feel a small fat gain. This is often the time when people give up. They haven't continued to drop off fat and they think their diet isn't working. They are probably right!

7. If you experience any kind of dramatic weight loss it is extremel likely when you resume normal eating, to find that the fat goes back on just as rapidly and Many people even check that they are now heavier than they were when they began.

8. weight loss is a more exact science than most people understand. The body needs the proper nutrients to alter over the fat into lean muscle, without these nutrients the body, would, as mentioned above, go into starvation mode and continuous weight loss will be very hard.

9. Exercise is a vital part of any weight loss regime, especially if you are to maintain that fat loss.

10. Many people think they just need to do more exercise to drop off weight and start jogging or visiting the gym and doing hours on a tread mill or cross trainer. Again it is more complex than that.|11. Any exercise plan requires to be tailored to your needs. You need to ensure which if you want to lose fat and drop off body fat that you are doing the correct muscle building exercises for which to be possible.

12. I have heard it said by some health gurus that it is 70% nutrition and 30% exercise. I have even heard others say that it is 90 % nutrition and 10% exercise. So although exercise is essential for your overall long term success, you must make Certain that you are sustaining your body with proper good quality nutrition, otherwise you are simply wasting your time, damaging your health and doing nothing to drop off your fat or your body fat.

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