Work With Your Body Not Against It For Effective Weight Loss

     It is easy to think when we go on a weight loss diet that we have to cut way back on our food intake and suffer another 'diet'. This was the way we used to do it but the problem is it does not work. In fact, it is estimated that 95 percent of all diets fail which is incredible seeing people are still trying to get them to work.

What happens is that we work against our body and the resilience of the human body means it has long since been able to adapt to harsh survival conditions and that is exactly what a diet replicates - a famine situation.

The World Health Organization states that any diet of 1800 or less for women and 2200 for men is a starvation diet. Yet many people around the world are cutting back to levels way below this in an attempt to lose weight even though it is fruitless. It is now known that we need to stay under the body's 'famine mode' radar by only 100-200 calories each day so we do not trigger this ancient survival mechanism.

This in affect outsmarts our body to release its stored fat and is the opposite of starving. A proper fat loss diet focus's on eating the right type of foods in the right quantities and at the right time. This has a two fold affect - 1) boosting the metabolism by it having to fire up to process the large amounts of 'clean' foods. 2) Providing strength and energy so some effort can be put into a proper strength training program so more fat burning machinery can be added to the body - lean muscle tissue.

So out goes the refined and processed 'so called' foods, out goes the high sugar and high fat junk and in comes natural whole foods cooked from scratch. A fat burning meal has protein as it central component so this choice should be made first and foremost. Then the rest of the meal is added - complex carbohydrates in the form of vegetables are the best choice. Small amounts of grains and fruit can be used.

These small fat burning meals are eaten every 2-3 hours and need to be prepared the night before so they can be taken whenever you go during the day. As you can see a fat loss diet is completely different in its approach than simply losing weight. After all what sort of weight do you want to lose - muscle tissue or body fluid - don't think so. We want it to be fat so we need to work with the body not against it as that is a lose/lose situation.

Let's go over the basic formula again - 5-7 small meals each with at least 20 grams of protein, just a couple of hundred calories less than you need each day. You may need to drop just 100 calories a day till you start losing fat. Ditch the processed foods, sugar, grains and high fat and start eating natural, whole and some raw foods each day.

Forget what you think you know about exercise and get yourself started on a proper strength training program and put some effort into it so you can boost your metabolism.

How is that for a simple method and guess what? It really works. Your biggest problem with be having to fork out for a new wardrobe for the new strong, lean, slim, healthy you.

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