5 Secrets to Losing Body Fat

Written by Joe Clayton Monday, 06 June 2011 11:43

It very important to understand that...

Less calories  in, more calories out = fat loss

But there are things you can do to influence this balance...

1. Increase your metabolic rate

This could be achieved by increasing CV workout, doing low weight high repetition workout, including cayenne pepper, ginger, garlic and parsley in your diet. Do high explosive workout and taking thermogenics or fat burners. Check out the following fat burners:

2. Reduce High GI carbohydrate

When you eat carbohydrates with a high GI, it sends your blood-glucose level soaring. Because high levels of glucose are dangerous (just like high blood pressure), your body instantly recognises the problem and releases a hormone called insulin, whose job it is to remove the excess glucose and restore levels to normal.

This rapid removal of excess glucose has two effects:

First, the glucose needs to be taken away and stored somewhere. It ends up in your muscles and liver, and, once they are full, it is converted into fat and dumped in your fat cells. Insulin opens the gates of these fat cells to allow this excess in.

Second, the sudden drop in blood glucose (also known as blood sugar) leaves us craving more high-GI food for a further glucose hit.

If you find that you are hungry again soon after eating a bowl of sugary breakfast cereal, or that one biscuit is never enough, you are on the blood-glucose rollercoaster. Your glucose levels soar after eating these foods, subsequently dipping sharply and sparking the need for another sugar rush. However, when you eat a low-GI carbohydrate, your blood-glucose level rises gently, which, in turn, leads to only a small rise in insulin. Substitute the supermarket cereal for a Pro-Brek by ISO2.

Paradoxically, while a big surge of insulin soon leaves you feeling hungry, a small rise in insulin will help to keep you feeling full. It also leads to the release of a fat-burning hormone called glucagon. In a nutshell, high-GI foods cause you to store fat and make you hungry: this triggers overeating.

Low-GI foods help burn fat and keep you feeling fuller for longer: this helps you to eat less, so the pounds drop away effortlessly.

3. Increase your protein intake

When trying to loss weight you would have to reduce your calorie intake which means that you will take in less protein as well. Less protein means less amino acid which is a very important factor in retaining muscles. Try the following products:

4. Have smaller but equal frequent meals

This will allow your body to digest and spend calories before you take on board more food. Eating small meals at frequent intervals will allow your body to maintain a higher metabolic rate because you are constantly digesting food which requires energy and burns your pervious meal to make way for the next meal.

I would recommend having 6 meals a day at equal interval throughout the day.Try to consume most of your carbohydrate earlier in the day and tapper off as the day goes by. Another helpful tip is to include healthy fats example fish oils in your diet, or a CLA supplement.

5. Try to do your CV in the morning

Doing your CV workout in the morning on a empty stomach helps to mobilize more stored body fat and increase their metabolic rate all day long.