The World’s Best Kept Secrets for Fat Loss

Okay I'm going to go ahead and admit that the title of this article sounds like a late night infomercial you might've caught part of last Saturday night. But the fact is I am going to reveal the world's best kept secrets for fat loss; whether or not you choose to heed the advice is up to you.

When trying to delve into the secrets of fat loss and the way the body works and wants to work, we have to look at ourselves the ways we existed long ago in our past. A few thousand years ago man could not just jump in the car and run down to the local grocery store or fast food joint. In primitive times, if you wanted to eat, you had better have been fast and good with a weapon. These skills were the two most important attributes you needed to possess in order to provide food for yourself and your family.

Once you did track down your prey and prepared the nights meal, there were no low fat versions available on the menu. You ate what you killed and this included a healthy combination of protein, in the form of muscle, and fat which added flavor and provided the needed energy the body required for the next day's hunt.

Did you catch that? I just divulged the world's best kept secrets for fat loss. If it went over your head, let me spell it out for you.

1. Exercise
2. A high fat diet

That's right exercise and a high fat diet. This represents what our bodies were used to many thousands of years ago when man had to hunt and kill for his meals on a daily basis. I want to emphasize the existence of protein in these diets because of course most of the animals eaten were composed of muscle and fat. Protein worked well in the bodies of those who ate animal protein in order to help maintain and build their own muscle. But fat is also a fantastic energy source for our bodies and when we put ourselves into a energy demand state that will allow your body to burn fat for fuel, other fuel types (muscle tissue) will be preserved plus we’ll burn more stored body fat as well. The combination of a consistent exercise plan demanding more energy (calorie burning) with a modified diet that includes high fat foods, lean proteins and significantly less carbohydrates than found in other diets can be a great and very effective combination for fat loss.

The state in which our bodies are burning fat as their main source of energy is called ketosis. It is the principle behind such diets as the Atkins diet and if used properly can be extremely effective at stripping away body fat like nothing else you have ever tried. The fat that you consume is burned for energy and in turn your body will continue to want to burn fat once you've trained it properly and this will lead to your existing stores of fat (yes, I'm talking about your belly and your butt) to be burned off as well.

Now, I'm not suggesting that you go sharpen a broomstick and start tracking deer in order to put food on your table on a nightly basis, but if you can work to mimic the diet of early man through a high-fat high-protein diet coupled with a rigorous and consistent exercise program, you can begin to achieve the streamlined and muscular physique that was so common in our early predecessors. The world's best kept secrets for fat loss may just be entering your body into a state of ketosis and exercising regularly like we did long ago.

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