You probably still hear that same advice being doled out in gyms all over the country even today but the truth is that there are much better ways to attack fat loss and we’ll explore some in this post today.

Folks I can tell you from personal experienece that it is possible to eat what you are currently eating and perhaps even more and still burn fat and come out with a leaner, healthier looking body. There really is no need to starve yourself anymore and there is no need for those marathon sessions on the treadmill anymore.

Ok so without further ado let’s look at how you can burn fat without having to force yourself through a diet that you’re not going to stick with anyway.

Weight Loss Tip #1 Burn Fat With Muscle

Most people don’t realize it but the easiest way to fight and burn fat on your body is to have or build muscle because muscle is high maintenance. Muscle requires a lot of calories to maintain then fat. Unfortunately a lot of people believe that strength training will cause them to gain weight and it will but that’s only because muscle is denser then fat and muscle just weighs more. But your leaner harder body also burns more calories per day then does that of a fat and sedentary person. When you have a lean muscular physique your body is burning a lot of calories even when you are just sitting there doing nothing!

Most people that are intimidated about working out with weights are only intimidated because they don’t know what they’re doing. Here’s how you fix that. Go to the grocery store and pick up a Muscle and Fitness magazine. In that magazine you’ll find several example workout routines. Pick one and take it with you to the gym if you don’t think you can remember it. There you go… now you know what you’re doing.

While you’re in the gym focus on your larger body parts like your legs, your back and your chest as your goal is to build and tone your largest muscle groups. Keep the reps high around the 10-15 range since your goal is to burn fat and build lean muscle. Also keep the rest periods between sets short as you want to keep your heart rate high throughout the workout.

Working out and building lean muscle tissue is important to your weight loss goals because muscle is the only tissue in the body that burns fat. The more muscle you have on your body the more fat and calories you burn. the more muscle you have the higher your metabolism as well so you can see the numerous benefits that some lean muscle can provide.

And here’s my favorite fact about muscle… one pound of muscle tissue burns an extra 50 calories per day! And that’s why i can still eat a lot of stuff that I shouldn’t be eating because my body burns it all of anyway!

Weight Loss Tip #2 Interval Training

Outside of working out with weights interval training has to be the most effective workout for burning fat and burning calories. Interval training is a bit of a hybrid workout in that you do both regular jogging and full blown sprinting and it’s that combination that makes it a pretty effective workout. Interval training is great for busting out of fat loss plateaus and also for giving your metabolism a quick shot in the arm. Do some interval training in the morning and you’ll be feeling the positive effects all day!

The other fantastic thing about interval training is that you can get a great interval training session in in about 20 - 25 minutes. Basically for a 20 minute session you would alternate every minute between jogging and sprinting. One minute jog, one minute sprint, one minute jog, one minute sprint, etc, etc…

Weight Loss Tip #3 Eat More To Burn More

Some thing else you can do to boost your metabolism is eat more. By eating more I mean eating more meals spaced out about 3 hours apart from one another. Ideally you want to eat about 6 meals a day. you do this consistently for about a month and your metabolism will be running at it’s full potential.

The food you eat is important as well. Try to eat at least some carbohydrates, protein and health fats in every meal you eat. Stay away from simple sugars in deserts and sodas and from anything that is greasy or high in fat. It’s ok once in a while but if you do it consistently then you’re going to have a jelly belly.

OK that’s it for the weight loss tips in this article. The three tips above when followed are much more effective then any diet you’ll ever try and far more ffective then any weight loss supplement you’ll sopend your money on any time soon. The three tips above amount to what some would call a healthy lifestyle and the results are a lean and athletic looking physique and it can be yours.

Right off the bat I don’t care how many meal you’re currently eating you have to increase the numbers of meals you eat per day to 6. That’s right 6.

How is increasing the amount of food you eat going to help you lose weight?

Well it’s not because you’re not going to eat any more then what you’re currently eating right now… all you’re going to do is take the same amount of food you’re eating right now and divide it up into 6 nice little small meals that are going to turn your metabolism into a fat and calorie burning furnace.

A funny thing happens when you feed your body 6 meals per day…

Pardon the analogy but your body is like a squirrel in that when you only feed once per day it stores food for the winter. Only your body doesn’t store nuts in a tree rather it takes the ood you eat and it deposits it as fat throughout your body. You probably know where right?

Anyhow so what you want to do is eat a meal consisting of some long or medium chain carbohydrates and protein every 3-4 hours.

After about a month of doing this you body will no longer store anything you eat as fat because your body will trust that you’re going to feed it every 3-4 hours and that’s when your metabolism goes into overdrive!

Next you want to make sure the meals you’re eating are nutritious and good for your body. Like I said above, look for meals that consist both carbohydrates and protein and some healthy fats is possible. Rice, potatoes and oatmeal are perfect for your carbohydrate portion and chicken, turkey or fish would be ideal for the protein portion.

Last but no least, stick to your new “diet” even when you leave your home.

Now this may take extra planning at first but after a while you’ll get used to it and it’ll become second nature. One of the things you’ll have to do is pack some snacks and food for work if you go to work.

The area where most people just lose their weight loss efforts is when they go out to eat. There’s no need to throw your healthy eating sensibilities out the window when you go out to eat. Look for a dish that has something grilled, broiled or steamed and whatever you do, don’t force yourself to eat the entire portion because American portions are ridiculously large!

There you have it 3 quick weight loss tips that you should have already incorporated into your diet and lifestyle if you’ve been reading this Blog.

There are a couple of schools of thought when it comes to weight loss exercises as far as I’m concerned…

First there is the train of thought that says the best way to attack fat and extra weight through weight loss exercises is by utilizing a weight training regimen. This is a kind of indirect approach to weight loss and fat burning because the weight lifting exercises themselves won’t help you lose weight or burn fat but the muscles that result from the workouts will help your body burn more fat and calories throughout the day due to an increased metabolism.

Then there are those that believe the best weight loss exercises are those that burn the most calories right then and there, on the spot so to speak. And if your goal is to burn as many calories as humanly possible in as short a period of time as possible then I recommend you do some pretty rigorous cardio workouts.

The more you sweat, the harder you work, the more calories you burn. Plain and simple. Just keep in mind that when you take your cardio workouts up a notch you lose most, if not all, of the fat burning benefits of your cardio workout but you do give your heart one hell of a workout which is a great side benefit.

People as far as I’m concerned with weight loss exercises there is nothing better then working out with weights. You can start burning a lot of calories today by working out with weights or by doing some strenuous cardio but only the weight workouts will give you the added benefit of a more toned body and an increased metabolism to boot. Remember a strenuous cardio workout will only burn the calories, it won’t replace the fat in your body with muscle. You ever seen all the loose sking on someone who just lost a lot of weight?

Not pretty!

Replace your weight loss exercises today with weight-lifting workouts and start burning a ton of calories, burning a lot of fat, toning your body and boosting your metabolism for tomorrow as well. What could better then just losing weight? Losing the weight and replacing it with a hard, firm body!

Avoid Cravings And Lose Weight

One of the easiest ways you can reduce the amount of calories you consume on a daily basis and lose weight in the process is by cutting out all of the unnecessary snacking you do between meals.

But that’s easier said then done especially when you’re at the office and your stomach starts growling and it’s only 9AM in the morning…

What do you do then?

The best thing you can do today to avoid snacking between meals is prevent the thought from ever crossing your mind.

Huh?

What I mean is the best thing you can do to avoid craving and lose weight is prevent them by eating well-balanced and nutritious meals strategically placed throughout your day.

Now ideally you’re consuming 6 meals a day to stimulate your metabolism but on top of that you want to make sure that you have a meal balanced with good portions of carbohydrates, protein, and fat. You need all three for your body to have sufficient fuel to burn and for it to feel full and satisfied.

Once you know you’re eating good nutritious and balanced meals I would recommend you go ahead and skip the snacks when you get those between-meal cravings and drink a tall glass of water instead.

Avoid cravings and lose weight but before you skip those between-meal snacks, make sure you’re consuming a balanced and nutritious diet.

You may not believe me but it is in fact possible to eat more and lose weight in the process… I call it the eat more weight loss program.

Eating more doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll still get to stuff your face with whatever you want to eat however… If you want to lose weight and eat more you’re going to have to maintain a cleaner and healthier diet. But you will get to eat more…

So how the hell can you eat more and lose weight at the same time?

Well it all begins with the spacing and size of your meals.

First and foremost you’ll want to space out what you eat over 6 meals and you’ll want to feed your body every 3-4 hours or so.

By eating 6 meals a day and eating every 3-4 hours you’re basically forcing your metabolism into overdrive. After a few weeks your body will burn and utilize all of the calories you feed it at meal time and it will “dispose” of any calories that it can’t use right then and there.

Right now if you’re anything like the typical American, you’re eating about 1-2 meals a day and you’re sitting on your behind pretty much most of the day.

You couldn’t do anything worse for your metabolism!

By only eating once or twice per day, you’re forcing your body to store most of the food that you eat as fat. Your body does this because it doesn’t know when it’s going to get fed again and you have to remember that your body’s primary function is to keep you alive and to maintain all bodily functions and not to keep you looking slim and trim.

That’s what happens when you eat 1-2 meals a day…

Would you rather eat 1-2 meals a day, starve yourself and gain weight or would you rather eat 6 meals a day and lose weight?

The eat more weight loss program… try it!

Not just ant beer belly though, it’s got to be one of those beer guts that’s hard as it’s those hard beer bellies that generally harbor the fat that’s been associated with heart disease - visceral adipose tissue.

No need to worry guys, I’m not the Grim reaper and I bring with me good news if you’re one of those guys with one of those hard beer bellies…

The good news is all you have to do is get started on a weight loss routine if you want to get rid of that dangerous belly fat because research has shown us that the visceral adipose tissue underneath your belly is typically the first to go when you just begin to lose weight and you first get started with your weight loss rouine!

That’s right as soon as you begin your weight loss program the first fat to go will typically be the fat tissue known as visceral adipose tissue. So although you may think you’re not making much progress in those first few weeks of weight loss, you’re actually making a lot of progress not in weight loss but in your overall health and sometimes that’s even more important then weight loss.

Start training today. Consume fewer calories and get rid of that fat that’s been linked to heart disease!

First and foremost you have to consume fewer calories. There’s no way around this… you don’t want to starve yourself but you do want to consume fewer calories. Replacing all of the soda and juice and other sugary drinks in your diet with water wll dramatically cut down on the number of calories you consume. Drinking water is the fastest way I know of reducing the number of calories you consume.

Once you reduce the number ofcalories you consume, you now have to focus on burning more calories then your body needs on a dialiy basis so you ca actually start to lose weight. You can accomplsh this by exercising… it doesn’t have to be anything rigorous… you just want to be active 3-5 times a week for 30-60 minutes.

There you have it… that’s the easiest and fastest method for losing weight and those are without a doubt the 2 essential steps for permanent and consistent weight loss.

Here are a few tips so you can start to drink water to lose weight.

1. Drink water between meals to lose weight. Most snacks that we consume between meals aren’t snacks we eat due to hunger but rather we are snacking because we are actually thirsty and we have mistakingly interpreted hunger for thirst. To avoid unnecessarily snacking between meals in the future make sure you drink water between meals.
2. Just by drinking a half liter of water you raise your metabolism by 30%!
3. Drinking water throughout the day keeps you feeling full and keeps you from eating and snacking when you’re not really hungry.
4. Staying hydrated also keeps your metabolism up as individuals that are even slightly dehydrated experience a 2% drop in their metabolism.

There you have it… drink water to lose weight

Stop drinking sodas and soft drinks people.

If you really want to make an impact on weight loss you’ll replace all of those soft drinks and sodas with water. I’ll talk more later about the benefits of drinking water later but for now let’s just have you focus on cutting the sodas and mocha frappuccinos out of your diet…

If you think you’ll have problems transitioning to water i recommend  you try some crystal light  with your water. They have those  little packs every where you go now  and they’re perfect with a 20 oz. water  and they contain  much fewer calories that soda.

That’s it for tip #1 of daily weight loss tips and remember if you want to lose weight... cut out the soda and the mocha frapuccinos and all the other soft drinks you know you shouldn’t be having because they contain like a million calories…