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The Five Major Pitfalls That Could Bring Your Fat Burning Progress To A Sreeching Halt!

If weight loss/fat burning has been a problem up until now, you might be making one of the following mistakes. See if this is you. In that case it can be as simple and easy as to fix the mistake(s) and youre right back on track to an attractive and healthy body.

1. Too High Frequency Too many meals per day. Theres many terms for this: grazing" is one of them. They say by eating many small meals you speed up the metabolism and prevent having a calorie surplus with every feeding. First off: the metabolism-thing is a myth. If anything speeds up the rate at which you burn calories, then that is exercise, not eating.

Generally speaking, eating is what makes you fat, not lean.

Aditionally, 6 or 7 meals per day are 6 or 7 opportunities to have just that leeetle bit too much every time. At the end of the day this can add up to a healthy", or shall we say: unhealthy, surplus... straight off to the belly-button, boys!"

Trust me, youre better off with 3-4 meals per day on average.

2. No Lifting most still believe in aerobics for burning fat. Thats a fallacy as we know from research that the hormonal response to most steady state cardio-type work will actually result in muscle breakdown and possible fat storage. High intensity interval training, either in the form of sprinting, body weight circuits or resistance/weights-circuits has proven far superior.

Consider this fact: Marathon runners have a body fat percentage of 10-12 on average, whereas sprinters and 400 meter runners have about 4-6% body fat... how come? They do what basically amounts to high intensity interval work. The hormonal response to that, plus the metabolic cost for this type of training as well as recovery from same burn fat most efficiently.

If you choose the body weight-circuits or weights-cicuits, you will simultaneously tone and strengthen your physique. Guys: you wont get too big", not naturally. And if you feel you do, simply cut back! Girls: theres no way you will become too muscular, unfemininely so. All the training does is make you look more feminine and attractive. If you see a woman looking like a man due to weights-training, then steroids are involved.

3. Snackingyour average snack' food often has a lot more calories than you might think. Two or three snacks a day and all weight loss progress can simply dissapear: almonds for example are great, really healthy and can even help with fat burning ... under the right conditions, meaning on a calorie-deficit. The problem? They also pack a mighty calorie-punch, so if you dont watch it, this calorie-deficit quickly turns into a surplus ... result: weight-GAIN.

4. Not Enough Vegetables and Fruits in the Diet Fruits and Veggies are great Fillers" : they provide satiety, make you feel nice and full. And they have a low calorie-cost, so that means you can eat a LOT of the stuff, like broccoli or cauliflower, and still have relatively few calories on the whole. They have a host of health benefits, amongst them ... weight loss! Because of the specific phyto-chemicals certain vegetables contain, your fat burning efforts will be optimized. The most effective in this regard are cruciferous vegetables. Brocoli and cauliflower are two examples, some more would be cabbage, brussels sprouts and water cress.

5. Eating too much

Yes, yes, its true: eating more calories than are burned off will result in fat gain. I mean, where else is all the surplus energy going to go? It would be awesome if your body could just shovel any extra out of your ears or something: Hold on, hold on! We dont need these calories right now ... what are we gonna do? Alright, lets throw it outta the ears, boys, on three: one, two, heave ... HOOO!"

No, unfortunately not. Instead the body says: OK, heres something for a rainy day, lets put it all into our belly button fat-account!"

So how to avoid that? How NOT to eat too much?

Weel one way is to have a lot of low calorie-cost food, as outlined above. Raddish, soup, beans and lentils, other vegetables, fruit and high fiber grains like oats and oat bran can help there.

Then you might want to simply increase the times in the day where you dont eat, like overnight for example. Try this, my TS 4/3-System: no more food within four hours of bedtime. Then postpone the breakfast by three hours. This increases your natural, overnight fast substantially. Now just try not to overcompensate during the day, and youre rolling.

This is a good place to start.

Good Luck!




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