10 Tips That Really Work For Burning Fat
This article is going to give you very practical tips on where to begin if burning off excess body fat is what your heart desires. If you have will to make a change and and you’re ready to grind out a win over fat, then read carefully, write down what you have to and start busting off that fat!
1. Cut back your carbohydrate intake
The first thing you need to do if you want to burn off excess body fat is consume less carbohydrates. Carbs are in direct correlation with how much insulin your body produces. Insulin is responsible for transporting glucose and amino acids to cells – not only muscle cells, but fat cells also. Another thing you need to know is that when insulin is around no fat will be released from fat cells to be used for energy. In other words, insulin is also responsible for keeping fat where you don’t want it to be.
2. Use cod liver oil
Cod liver oil is the #1 supplement that everyone, healthy or not, should be taking, but barely anyone is. It not only contains omega3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which are crucial for so many different functions, especially to keep your brain healthy, but also fat soluble vitamines A, D and E. To make sure you get the vitamins, make sure you get the cod LIVER oil, not simply fish oil, which does not have the vitamins. How does it help you burn fat? The fatty acids help regulate your hormonal system, which in turn will promote the fat burning hormones. If possible, get a fermented cod liver oil, which will rock your socks off, guaranteed.
3. Use coconut oil
Coconut oil is a miracle oil of which’s amazing properties anyone hardly knows about. People always laugh when i tell them about all the things that i use it for. It truly is amazing for so many things from cooking to skin care. Coconut oil consists of about 50% of lauric acid (a fatty acid), which has been shown in many studies to have positive effects for weight loss for both animals and humans. Make sure you get a cold pressed (virgin) organic version of the oil.
4. Eat butter
High in all fat soluble vitamins, butter is a unique source for both the essential vitamins your body asks for and the widest variety of healthy fatty acids of any food. The fatty acid profile is really what makes butter unique. Not to take anything away from the vitamin content, especially the presence of vitamin K. Butter is yet another food that nourishes your brain, hormonal system and whole body with nutrients that make fat tissue regulation another yard easier. Always prefer butter from grass-fed animals.
5. Eat eggs
Eggs are a great source for fat soluble vitamines, essential fatty acids and highly valuable cholesterol that feeds your brain and cells among other things. The essential vitamines and fatty acids help regulate your hormonal system, which is responsible for regulating hormones that help you burn fat. Remember that it’s the egg yolks that are most valuable in the egg, not the whites. Whenever possible, get eggs from free range happy chicken, not the caged ones.
The best indicator for both butter and egg yolks is the darkness of the yellow of the matter. The darker it is, the better for you.
6. Be happier
Speaking not only from theoretical knowledge, but also from experience, i state that stress is the worst thing for you, period. Stressful junks of our lives make our bodies produce stress hormones, led by king cortisol, which break down our lean muscle mass, store body fat and block our body from using it efficiently for energy. It doesn’t matter whether you have a body weight problem or not – stress is something you need to keep as low as possible at all times to live a healthy lifestyle. It’s that more important in case you do want to burn off body fat or even build muscle mass – both are extremely hard if not impossible to do when stress hormones dominate your body. I urge you to learn about different methods (even alternative) for stress management.
7. Sleep better
During your sleeping hours is when it all happens. That is the time when your body produces the most growth hormone, which is important for your body to recover, but GH is also an extremely potent fat burner. If you want to burn fat or build muscle, you have to make sure you get enough deep sleep each night. In order to do that you need to switch off your mobile phone, wifi router and other devices sending out electo magnetic waves. The EM waves go through your body and interfere with your brain waves, which messes up your restful sleeping pattern. Since your brain is where your growth hormone is produced, it’s clearly not a good thing, right?
8. Don’t eat soy
Among many other negative qualities, soy is very often related to thyroid problems. Your thyroid gland is what regulates your metabolism among other things. If you begin to have problems with your thyroid, you will begin to have problems with your body weight. It is common that the solution for thyroid dysfunction is medication which you will have to take for the rest of your life. It’s a common misconception that Asians, especially the Japanese, eat a lot of soy products. The truth, however, is that they do not and the Japanese, the largest consumers, only eat 20 grams per day on average. The difference, however, is that a lot of the soy that they eat is fermented, which neutralizes a lot of the antinutrients in soy. Us, westeners, get suckered into drinking soy milk, eat soy cheese and even soy “meat” by a lot of marketing money. The profit margins on soy products are like no other. Ask yourself whether it is easier not to eat soy, which holds nothing good for you, not even the taste, or potentially get thyroid problems and start taking medication for the rest of your life. An easy option for me. Be especially wary of added soy to processed foods. As i’ve said in the past – start reading product labels. That’s the only way to identify whether they have tainted your food with it or not. And believe me when i say that they add it everywhere possible.
9. Keep it conservative with alcohol
Alcohol has a few positive benefits for most people, the main one being the psychological relief and mental reseting that it offers. Many alcoholic beverages are safe and even beneficial in small to moderate quantities. The problems begin when you start abusing it and looking for an angel from the bottom of the bottle (she’s not there). Not only will you consume an enormous amount of empty calories, you will also mess with your hormonal system, which will show in water retention and fat accumulation in certain areas of your body. If you are a drinker, remember to keep it to 1 or 2 glasses of red wine.
10. Stay active
Even though i’m not a supporter of the “calories in, calories out” hypothesis, i do urge people to move more and stay active. Many of us have physically rather passive lifestyles, which is why it is important that we move more during our time off from work or school. Whenever possible, take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator, also walk and do not drive if the distance you need to travel is barable and you have time for it. It will begin to show in your waistline shortly.
