Five Must Have Supplements For Fat Loss

     Working as a Glasgow personal trainer I often get asked questions about what supplements are best for fat loss. People have a misconception about supplements. They tend to think that they are something you can take instead of doing something else. A supplement is something added to complete a thing; it won't have any effect on its own. If you consume more calories than you use fat loss supplements are useless, you need a state of energy deficit (more calories used than consumed). The idea that you need fat supplements suggests you can't lose fat without them and that the reasons you are fat are out with your control.

I know Glasgow personal trainers that both use and prescribe all manner of supplements to their clients. A lot of Glasgow gyms require their trainers to sell nutritional supplements to their members to increase profit but I have serious philosophical objections to this practice. Suggesting a fat loss supplement will make it easy to lose fat is a lie. The only way to lose fat is to consume fewer calories that you expend and if you are doing this you don't need the supplement anyway. Your body is a direct result of your behavior so changing what you eat will change the way you look. Fat loss is not about supplements; it is about substitutes and accepting that is a huge step toward a flat stomach.

Water is the first thing you need to lose body fat. Dehydration hampers you ability to lose fat because your body becomes less efficient at everything it does, including burning fat. As water is the only fluid you need you should substitute it for everything else you drink. This will save you hundreds of worthless calories everyday which makes achieving energy deficit far easier. Monitoring your hydration status is easy because you will produce copious amounts of clear urine when fully hydrated. The darker your urine the more dehydrated you are and the less efficiently your body is burning off unwanted fat stores.

Sleep is essential to fat loss because fatigue from lack of sleep disrupts hormone levels which increases appetite, lowers metabolism and promotes fat retention. All these hormonal responses are intended to redress your body's energy balance during times of insufficient sleep. If you walk about all day feeling tired it is a fair bet your body is doing everything it can to conserve the energy levels it has left, by lowering your metabolism and by increasing energy intake, by making you crave high energy foods. Getting enough sleep every night has the opposite effect and gives you more energy to exercise.

The addition of lots of raw fruit and vegetables into your diet at the expense of all other snacks gives you a massive energy deficit boost. An apple contains 50 calories plus lots of nutrients; a chocolate bar has around 300 calories and no nutrients. Fruits and vegetables also contain fibre which is essential for a healthy digestive system. This is especially true of vegetables and I would suggest eating two servings of vegetables for every one of fruit each day. You have to make these changes to your diet before you will see changes to your waistline.

The final thing you need to add to your healthy diet is persistence. One day means nothing, neither does a week, a month is a good start but give it a year and you won't recognize yourself.

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