Understand The Fat Burning Basics

If you’re over­weight, you are not a bad per­son. You’re sim­ply over­weight. But it’s impor­tant to lose the extra pounds so you’ll look good, feel health­ier and develop a sense of pride and self-esteem. Once you’ve lost the fat, you’ll need to main­tain your weight.

In the next few days, you’ll dis­cover how to lose 10 pounds a month – a nice, safe loss of about two or two-and-a-half pounds a week – pain­lessly. You’ll feel sat­is­fied and more ener­getic than in the past with­out feel­ing deprived. So stay with us ..

A lot of peo­ple pack on those extra pounds by eat­ing the wrong things (like it writ­ten in the Every Other Day Diet). Chang­ing these poor eat­ing habits is the key to long-term success.

Knowl­edge – along with the right food – is the key.

When humans lived in caves, they didn’t know any­thing about pre­serv­ing and stor­ing food. They spent all their wak­ing time and energy hunt­ing and gath­er­ing food. When they had it, they gob­bled it down fast. Instead of stor­ing food in pantries or cup­boards, they stored energy in their bod­ies in the form of fat to burn dur­ing peri­ods when there was lit­tle or noth­ing to eat.

Each year, it was absolutely vital for them to put on a good layer of fat dur­ing the warm sprint and sum­mer months. That was the only way they could guar­an­tee their sur­vival dur­ing the lean and mean win­ter months.

And since women bore the young, they needed more energy to sus­tain them­selves and their babies, and that meant they were usu­ally heavier.

Even though we no longer live in caves, we have inher­ited and main­tained this basic mech­a­nism for fat stor­age from our hunt­ing and gath­er­ing ancestors.

Each one of us is born with a cer­tain num­ber of fat cells. How many of these fat cells you pos­sess depends on genet­ics. If you have a lot of fat cells, maybe your ances­tors were the biggest peo­ple in the tribe, which was a good thing because they had the best chances of survival.

You can never get rid of fat cells, but – unfor­tu­nately – you can add to them. Sure, it will depend­ing upon what you eat, your body will man­u­fac­ture new far cells. And like those you were born with, they never go away.

That doesn’t mean you’re doomed to be fat once you put on extra pounds. It is pos­si­ble to shrink fat cells. That’s what hap­pens when you lose weight. You burn up the fat stored in those big fat cells. Think of them as bal­loons. Burn­ing off the fat inside them has the save effect as let­ting the air out of a balloon.

A good weight loss pro­gram requires a cer­tain amount of intake restric­tion – the con­sump­tion of fewer calo­ries. You burn off the fat by eat­ing less fat and becom­ing more active.

To guar­an­tee a life­time of weight-control suc­cess, you have to change the type of foods you eat, so that you ingest less fat and still get the vit­a­mins, min­er­als, trace ele­ments, pro­tein, fat and car­bo­hy­drates your body needs to thrive.

Extremely low-calorie diets may help you shed pounds quickly, but they’ll lead to fail­ure in the long run.

That’s because humans are genet­i­cally pro­tected against star­va­tion. Dur­ing food short­ages, our bod­ies slow down our metab­o­lisms and burn less energy so we can stay alive.

A part of our brain called the hypo­thal­a­mus keeps us on an even weight keep by cre­at­ing a “set point.” That’s the weight where we feel com­fort­able. The hypo­thal­a­mus deter­mines this point based on the level of con­sump­tion it’s used to. It seeks to keep our weight con­stant, even if that point is over what it should be.

When we dras­ti­cally cut back our food intake, the brain thinks the body is starv­ing, and in an effort to pre­serve life, it slows the metab­o­lism. Soon the pounds stop com­ing off. Con­se­quently, we grow hun­gry and uncom­fort­able and then eat more. And then the diet fails.

Well, how can you com­pen­sate for this meta­bolic slow-down? The answer is that you have to change the nutri­tional com­po­si­tion of the foods you eat. You will have to cut down on total calo­ries – that’s absolutely basic to weight loss. More impor­tant, how­ever, is reduc­ing the per­cent­age of total calo­ries you are get­ting from fat.

That’s how you’ll avoid star­va­tion panic in your sys­tem. At the same time, you reduce the amount of fat in your food, replac­ing it with safe, low calo­rie, nutrient-rich plant foods. This will con­vince your brain that your body is get­ting all the nutri­tion it needs.

In fact, you’ll be able to eat more food and feel more sat­is­fied while con­sum­ing fewer calo­ries and fats. Plant foods break down slowly in your stom­ach, mak­ing you feel full longer, and they are rich in vit­a­mins, min­er­als, trace ele­ments, car­bo­hy­drates and pro­tein for energy and muscle-building. This allows your body to burn off its excess stored fat, you can learn more by read­ing Every Other Day Diet