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Monday, September 21, 2009

Attempting to Lose Fat Quickly? Is It the Best Thing

By Trent Kent

Persistence is a characteristic that individuals who are attempting to shed pounds seem to need more of. The flab can on no account be lost quick enough to suit most folks. The message from society is that losing weight can be successful done rapidly. Television portrays weight loss has been something that can be effectively done fast, it seems to be a breeze and is long term. This assessment by the world is a tad bit skewed from what occurs in real-life.

Sudden weight loss looks like the ultimate rationale of anybody who is overweight and needs to lose pounds, what is that the right approach? The truth is that it isn't the greatest line of attack to tackle weight loss. It is natural to want to lose weight fast, but there are a number of real problems that go with that mindset. There are many problems that can arise from losing weight too fast. What many people don't understand is that when you lose weight, you are losing different types of tissue in your body. Generally this is fat and muscle. The faster that weight is lost, the more muscle is lost, not fat. Muscle loss can create more problems in the future than it helps. The weight will return once the metabolically active muscle is in a lower percentage in the body. In addition, the faster we lose the weight, the faster it will come back. Sounds disappointing? Lose weight slow and you will be victorious. That is how the game of weight loss should be played.

Enduring weight loss ought to be the purpose of anybody trying to lose their love handles. Attempting to attain short term weight loss too fast will encumber your weight loss stability later on in your life once you're not able to exercise as hard or regulate your diet as well. Two pounds is generally the recommended weight loss for individuals in a week. Go past two pounds per week, and you lose muscle tissue and the percentage of fat in your body increases. Muscle is metabolically active tissue in your body and requires more energy. Body fat is less energy demanding and doesn't enhance your metabolism. Consider for a second that you did not gain the weight in a day. Weight gain takes years of neglect to accumulate pounds of fat. That is why it is better to take a slower route to weight loss.

There are indeed exceptions to the hard and fast rule of 2 lbs. of weekly weight loss. The exceptions come for the morbidly obese over 300 pounds. Above that weight, weekly weight loss should be looked at more of a more of a percentage based formula based on starting weight of the individual prior to dieting. Is important that the percentage of weight loss does not go above 1% in any particular week.

Where the real blubber, I mean the rubber, hits the road is and how much fat tissue is lost during the process. It is also recommend that a physician oversees the process. There needs to be any increase in lean body mass ratio as you lose weight.

When you want to lose weight, you should look at adding a weight lifting regime to build muscle in your body. Muscle is a more active type of tissue that will help you keep the weight off.

Looking inside of a muscle cell, they are little components known as mitochondria. If you've taken biology, then you know that mitochondria are known as the powerhouse of the cell. Those little powerhouses are responsible for turning energy in your body to give you the ability to do movements. On the other hand, fat cells are essentially storage cells for future energy needs. Fat cells do not have a lot of mitochondria, therefore they do not use a lot of energy. So it is very important when you are obese to try and lose fat not muscle.

How do I know if I'm losing fat instead of muscle?

There are a number of home testing kits that can help you measure the fat ratio of your body. One of those is the bioelectric impedance analysis body fat scale, but the best tool that you can make use of is what is known as body fat calipers. We will not go into the formula of how you calculate body fat ratio using calipers measurements, but what you do is pinch a loose section of your skin on your various areas of your body and quantify the depth in millimeters. From this you will get the most and most accurate reading for body fat percentage. The calculation that you apply will account for height and weight and sex. Websites that accomplish the calculations for you can be found relatively effortlessly on Google. Just enter the data and you'll get back your fat ratio percentage.

On the whole just reflect about the manner that you gained weight over the years. You didn't gain it overnight, it was a process of over the years at the fat cells accumulated in your body and grew larger. If you'll take the initiative, and lose weight slowly just as you gained it, and stick to it, you will have great success! - 17274

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