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Great Ways to Burn Fat Fast
by Jim O'Neill
Everyone who ever tried to lose
weight has probably tried just about everything they
could to do it at one time or another. With all of the
gimmicks, fad diets, useless pills, and "secret"
exercise methods out there it can be frustrating trying
to get rid of unwanted fat.
Now everyone knows that there really
is no secret method or trick to losing weight. Everyone
knows that proper diet combined with exercise is the
only real way to burn fat but there are a couple of
things you can do to help speed the process up a bit.
# 1) Exercise first thing in the
morning.
Studies have shown that exercising
first thing in the morning can burn as much as 3 times
more fat than exercising any other time of the day.
One of the reasons for this is because your body's main
energy source during the day comes from carbohydrates.
When you sleep for 6 to 8 hours your body uses the majority
of its carbohydrate stores as energy for the various
bodily functions that take place during sleep
In the morning your body doesn't
have any carbohydrates left for energy and so fat becomes
the prime energy source. When you exercise right away
in the morning before you eat breakfast so you don't
give your body any carbohydrates to use as energy, you
will burn mostly fat for energy and that is the prime
goal.
Also when you exercise in the morning
it boosts your metabolism up throughout the day which
means that even during the day you will burn more calories
and lose more weight. Evening exercise will still burn
some fat but you will have a higher carbohydrate store
so you will not burn as much plus when you go to sleep
at night your metabolism slows down and so you won't
burn extra fat for as long after exercise.
One last reason why exercising in
the morning is good is because aside from burning more
fat and having increased energy levels during the day,
you will have your workout out of the way and not have
to do it after a long day at work.
#2) Always eat breakfast.
Eating breakfast will help to boost
your metabolism while skipping breakfast and waiting
until mid morning or lunchtime will make it slow down
considerably. Another thing to consider is that waiting
too long to eat after you wake up will make your body
break down muscle tissue (catabolism) for the protein
it will be looking for.
When combined with morning exercise,
eating breakfast is like a double dose of fat burning
because when your body gets a morning meal, it is like
putting a log on your metabolisms fire. Breakfast kicks
your metabolism into high gear and makes you burn even
more fat than you did during your exercise session.
By eating breakfast you also are
much less likely to have those mid morning doughnuts
or whatever you can get from the snack machine when
you get to work. Breakfast combined with morning exercise
is the best 1-2 punch you can give yourself for maximum
fat burning and energy.
Remember; exercise for at least
30 minutes first thing in the morning and eat a good
breakfast about 15 to 20 minutes after your workout
and you will burn a lot more fat and lose a lot more
weight both during exercise and throughout the day as
well.
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