Here are 15 random fat loss tips that will help you get in the best shape of your life. There is no specific topic for these tips, they cover diet, exercise, rest and anything else that can help you lose body fat.
1) Drink enough water – If you are dehydrated which is very easy to do if you are not careful, your metabolism will slow down. This is because every single chemical reaction that takes place in your body requires water. It also involves burning body fat. To find out how much water you should be drinking, take your body weight in kilograms and multiply it by 0.33. Your answer will be how many liters of water you should drink in a day.
2) Exercise little and often – A long drawn out session will lose its intensity and also leave you with high cortisol levels and low testosterone. This will lead to muscle wasting, which lowers your metabolism and then leads to body fat storage!
3) Don’t be afraid of fats – Your body needs the fats in your diet, they are not only necessary for optimal health but for you to live! We have been eating high fat diets for thousands of years and have been extremely healthy. It is only recently that everyone is reducing fat back in our diets and now degenerative diseases are very common. Eat foods like eggs, meat, raw milk and butter to lose weight
4) Use full body exercises – When muscles work they burn a lot of energy. So the more muscle you work, the more calories you burn. Plus the more muscle you train, the more muscle you will grow, which means your resting metabolism will be higher.
5) Cut down on carbs – Most people are eating more carbohydrates than they need to. Carbohydrates then turn into fat and get stored in the body. Without actually making many other changes to your diet, you may find that you lose weight if you cut down on carbohydrates.
6) Improve your posture – When you have bad posture, you create a lot of stress on your body. This elevates your cortisol and leads to loss of stored fat and muscle mass. Plus, when you have bad posture, you’re more likely to get injured during training, which means you’re unable to train. If you can’t train, you won’t make much progress in getting the physique you’re looking for.
7) Eliminate processed foods and sugar – This one really doesn’t need much explanation. These are not only the two worst things you can do for fat loss but also for your health. Eliminate them from your diet and see the benefits in no time.
8) Protein and fat for breakfast – If you have a breakfast that is rich in protein and fat, you are likely to stay full for longer. If you do this, your concentration, mood and energy will be good and high for most of the day. Your neurological system gets ready for the day when you have a good breakfast. If you opt for cereal and juice you will be hungry, grumpy, sleepy and eventually fat!
9) Sleep till 10.30 – Around 10.30 to 2.30 your body is going through physical repairing. Then you enter into mental repair. So if you are going to bed at 12 or 1 a.m. you are missing out on almost all of your body repair which leaves little chance for your body to burn fat and build some muscle.
10) Cardio training cuts through – To achieve long term fat loss it is important that you build some muscle so that your metabolism is nice and high. If you only do cardiovascular training, you will waste your muscles and lower your metabolism. You will also increase your already high cortisol which can further lead to a physique you do not want.
11) Reduce your stress – This point is very much related to every other tip in this article. Stress is stress! It doesn’t matter if its physical stress, mental stress, stress the body is getting due to poor nutrition or electrical stress. All this stress adds up and throws your hormones completely out of whack. And yes you guessed it, this will result in more fat and less muscle.
12) Don’t do sit-ups to lose belly fat – By now you must have realized that doing hundreds of sit-ups every day will not burn excess body fat from your midsection. Exercising your entire body is one of the fastest ways to burn fat from your midsection. When it comes to abdominal exercises just stick with a difficult exercise that limits you to 8-12 reps because your abdominals respond best to these ranges.
13) Supplement with Cod Liver Oil – Cod liver oil provides us with omega 3 fatty acids which we all are sorely lacking. Not only this, but cod liver oil provides high amounts of vitamins A and D which we are often deficient in. There are so many benefits of taking cod liver oil that it ranks among the most important supplements you can take.
14) Eliminate alcohol – Alcohol is a poison. Yes, there are benefits to drinking red wine in moderation, such as antioxidants. But you can get enough antioxidants from things like berries. Stop drinking and you will be enjoying the results within a few weeks.
15) Stop spending time on your computer! – Yes, I’m serious. Stop reading this article right now. Don’t spend a few more hours on the Internet looking for ways to pass the time. If you’ve just read this article and think you’re inspired to make a change, prove it now! Get up and do some exercise. Just 20 minutes of press ups, lunges, squats, jump squats, burpees etc.
Good luck to you!
Source by James J White
