At this time of year, everyone is in a panic to lose some extra kilos
before their summer holiday but before you rush out to the local gym
in an attempt to shed those extra kilos, it might just pay to find out
the best way to lose your excess body fat. Gym's have bulging fitness
classes and every treadmill and exercise bike taken, it is easy to
think that this is the right way to go. However you might be surprised
to find that this is not necessarily the most effective way to rid
yourself of your unwanted flabby parts.
The ScienceLosing body fat is simply about creating a negative energy
balance, i.e. expending more energy than we take in. We expend energy
through ? our metabolic rate? the energy required to take in, digest,
absorb and utilise food? physical activity
Your metabolism is the key to effective, long term body fat reduction.
Metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories to sustain
itself. The higher your metabolism the more effective your body is at
burning calories even whilst you are sleeping, sounds good to me.
There are ways to increase your metabolism, however before I get onto
that, a quick tip. Cutting calories can actually cause your metabolism
to get slower, so dieting in the traditional sense will actually cause
your body to go into a survival mode, enabling the body to store more
fat rather than actually ridding yourself of it. So long as you have a
reasonable calorie intake there is no reason to diet, however there is
no substitute for eating good fresh, natural produce (but that is
another discussion)...

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