For A Fast Metabolism To Lose Weight You Need These Three Things

     Many people think that a particular exercise routine or a super duper secret diet is the fastest way to burn excess body fat. But it isn't just either of these two things it is actually a combination of three specific components. If all you do is go on a diet chances are you will gain all of the weight back (plus some extra) as diet alone is not the fastest way to burn body fat.

The problem with just a diet is that it restricts calories (usually a lot of calories) and when you do this you do burn some fat but you also burn precious muscle tissue. Losing muscle tissue is a bad thing as it is metabolically active, meaning that this highly active tissue burns fuel (calories) twenty four hours a day just to exist.. So when you restrict calories and lose muscle tissue you lower your overall metabolic rate (the rate your body burns fuel).

So, to continue losing weight you would have to continue to eat less and less which is the one main reason so many people who go on a diet are unable to sustain that weight loss. They simply cannot continue to restrict their food intake that much. Add to that fact that their metabolism (the body's engine) is now lowered so fewer calories are needed to run the body's systems.

When they start eating regularly again they rebound and pile on the body fat at lightening speed, much faster that they did originally. And the worst bit, they are in an even worse situation then when they first started the diet. Because they lost a lot of muscle tissue while dieting and added back a lot of body fat, they now have a lower metabolism and they look worse because they are carrying more body fat and less firm muscle tissue.

Clearly dieting is not the way to go when looking for the fastest way to burn body fat and keep it off permanently. So then, is cardio activity or strength training exercise the way to go? If you do cardio only like the dieting only some of the weight you lose will be muscle tissue causing all of the problems already mentioned above in the same way a diet only program would do. Steady state cardio is so low intensity that it is unlikely to burn enough calories to really chew into those fat stores. You may even gain weight doing long slow cardio activity as the body stores fat in preparation for these endurance type sessions.

Strength training exercise is a step up from dieting or cardio for body fat loss. Why?

Because with strength training, you will burn calories but you will also keep from losing muscle tissue. This eliminates the problem of lowering your metabolism and changing your body composition (muscle/body fat ratio) in a negative way.

You need to be aware that with strength training your body needs high quality nutrition to support the exercise program otherwise you will burn out very quickly. You still need to create a caloric deficit though so you can lose body fat and it is a fine line between eating enough and eating too much.

So let's put the pieces of the puzzle together. We need a proper exercise training program that includes a couple of sessions of interval training each week combined with a proper nutrition plan. The third component we talked about is probably the most important of all. It is your mindset. You need to have a strong and determined mindset if you are to achieve weight loss success long term.

Not having this positive mindset is the biggest reason most people never reach their fat loss goals and continue to struggle forever with them or even quit before they succeed. And it is the wrong mindset that prevents them from even getting started on the journey in the first place.

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