Archive for September, 2009

Holidays are dreaded by those who are trying to lose fat. Everybody around you is eating heartily, while you sit there eating your salad without dressing, since the latter contains a lot of calories.

Eating is as much psychological as it is physical. Peer pressure will easily lead you to break your diet and consume unneeded calories that will end up in your waist.

At this point, you might be tempted to lock yourself in your house and become a social recluse in order to lose those pounds hanging from your belly.

But you don’t have to go to such an extreme. There … read more

No matter what you may have heard, fat loss is simple.

The problem is that people overcomplicate it by reading too much information about losing fat, without implementing anything they read.

As a result, fat loss dieters suffer from information overload, which results in paralysis in analysis that never allows them to lose a single pound of fat.

So I am going to give you here the basics of fat loss that have always worked and will always work in the future.

First, you need to create a caloric deficit. This is an unassailable truth of fat loss. It is the foundation, the basis … read more

Sometimes you just want to lose fat quickly, because you have an upcoming wedding, high school reunion, or even a physique contest!

But experts and fat loss gurus will tell you that you need to take a sensible, slow approach to fat loss. If it took you all those years and months to gain fat, what makes you think you can lose it in a week?

These same experts also tell you that rapid fat loss often results in disaster. You end up losing more muscle than fat, your metabolism crashes to the ground, and you quickly regain all the fat you … read more

Talk to most people about dieting, and they mention words like “sacrifice”, “pain”, “self-control”, “strict”, and other words that are synonymous with deprivation.

But dieting should not be all doom and gloom. Otherwise, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Some dieters think that they need to be strict 24/7, that they can never eat cheat foods, or that they can never miss a workout. Dieting is already stressful on its own, so if you add perfectionism to the mix, you will end up going back to the habits that got you fat in the first place.

As a result, we should carefully … read more

If you go to any online forums on fat loss, you will find heated discussions on the proper exercises to lose fat. You will also find that people take extreme sides: some say that high intensity interval training (HIIT) is the only way to lose fat, while others swear by LSC (long, steady cardio).

But as in any area of life, extremism is not healthy.

The ideal would be to combine both high intensity, short duration exercises with lower intensity, long duration exercises. In this way, you develop both the anaerobic and aerobic systems, and you lose fat while exercising (long term … read more

Overweight individuals say that they want to lose “weight”, so they weigh themselves on a scale to find out whether they are shedding the pounds or not. If the pounds go down, they are elated, but if the scale does not change, they lose their motivation and regress to the behaviors that made them overweight in the first place.

The problem with this way of thinking is that not all weight is made equal. Humans can lose weight through loss of water, loss of muscle, loss of fat, and loss of waste material located in your digestive tract.

Try this experiment today: … read more