Published in January 8th, 2009
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Doing fat burning exercises, alone, is not enough. You need a complete plan that includes striving for excellent nutrition, increasing the lean muscle mass on your body, retraining your mind and increasing your resting metabolic rate. Those are some of the keys to long-term success.
No two people are the same. Yet, you often see diet books claiming that their program works for everyone. I know how easy it is to become confused. I spent years on the diet see-saw, reading every new book that came out, trying every pill on the market and nothing worked.
For a few years, I was actually a “skinny-fat” person. I worked out for over an hour every single day. In addition to that, I walked every day, sometimes for three, four, five or more miles. I stuck to an extra low-fat diet, less than 20% of my caloric intake was fat.
I almost never ate meat. I didn’t eat eggs. I didn’t try to eat other kinds of protein, because I did not know how important protein was to your body. I did fat burning exercises and strength training exercises, but there was practically no muscle mass, anywhere on my body.
When it comes to nutrition, remember these things. Dietary fats are not your enemy. Protein is your friend. Calories do count, but they are your body’s fuel. If you don’t get enough calories, your metabolism will slow down and you’ll keep getting fatter and fatter, regardless of how little you eat.
I had a friend that weighed over 300 pounds. He had stores of fat everywhere on his body, but very little muscle. People think of big guys as strong, but most of them are actually pretty weak.
Besides doing some strength building and some fat burning exercises, he should have been eating a minimum of 3600 calories per day. He was eating maybe half that much. When he started losing weight, he should have cut back on calories, but not until he started losing.
A doctor would have given him an 1800 calorie per day diet, which might have helped, because he wasn’t eating that much. I talked to him about his diet and he started to lose fat. I helped him learn how to do strength building exercises and he started to build muscle. Today he’s healthy.
You can’t build muscle if you don’t get enough protein in your diet. If all you are doing is fat burning exercises, you’ll hit a plateau that will keep your from reaching your goal. If there isn’t enough fat (good fats that is) in your diet (about 30%), your body will not burn your fat stores, regardless of how active you are, unless you walked all day, every day.
Your primary goal should be to build muscle, but you need a complete plan to do that. There are lots of plans on the market. Some are obviously better than others. You need to learn more than I can share with you in this article, but just remember that fat burning exercises, alone, are not enough.
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