The most important of all fat loss tips is that it must be approached with care. Before following any weight loss tips it is important to consult your medical practitioner. Fat loss is the primary objective of any weight loss program but it is not sustainable unless all the aspects of obesity have been addressed.
**This is the continuation of the physiological Fat loss Tips article**
Fat loss tips are divided into physiological and psychological categories. The Fat loss tips from a physiological perspective ensure that there is a state of calorie deficiency created within the body. Continuation of the fat loss tips:
- Eat food with low Glycemic Index (GI) value
Glycemic Index (GI) is a measure used to show the effect of a carbohydrate on the body's blood glucose and insulin levels. Different foods have different values of Glycemix Index. Foods with simple carbohydrates tend to have lower Glycemic Index, where as foods with complex Carbohydrate are high in Glycemic Index. A low Glycemic Index indicates the foods that will cause a surge in the insulin levels or the blood glucose, increasing the likely hood for the body to store fat. In addition, the surge in the insulin levels also results in a person feeling hungry, which ultimately results in the person consuming more calories than they would otherwise. For a comprehensive list of the foods and their Glycemic Index please visit Glycemic Index foods
- Do not eat carbohydrate after 6PM
Fat loss is achieved when there is a state of calories deficiency within the body. Carbohydrate is used as a primary source of energy by the body, providing it with the calories necessary to sustain a healthy function. However, excess in the energy consumed is stored as body fat. It is therefore important to balance the amount of energy consumed with that used. Most people's lifestyle is such that after 5 pm they tend to decrease their physical activity and spend more time sitting around. For this reason it is highly advisable for weight loss that people not eat carbohydrate after 5 pm. This reduces the any risk of unused energy having been stored as body fat.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT cut carbohydrate from your diet in order to loose weight. This will lead to organ malfunctions and in the long run encourage fat storage.
- Eat little and often
One of the best fat loss tips is to eat little and often. When the body doesn't get regular nutrition and energy, it goes into a survival mode, which is to store as much food as it can to ensure its survival. It is this survival mode that lowers the metabolic rate and increases the ability for the body to store fat. In addition, when large amounts of calories are consumed in one sitting, then the body will store any unused ones as fat.
- Eat a healthy breakfast
Research has shown that the people who skip breakfast tend to find it hard to shift their stored fat. This is because eating a healthy breakfast will help to speed up your metabolic rate after it having been lowered due to a lack of activity during sleep.
- Drink water
Drinking water will help you loose weight because quite often when people feel hungry, they are in fact just thirsty. The brain recognises that most food contain water, so when the body is thirsty, as a last resort it triggers the hunger signals that encourage a person to eat. In addition, drinking often helps the kidneys to function efficiently, which stops the liver coming to its aid and in doing so compromising its role as the primary organ responsible for fat metabolising.
- Go for a 30 min walk before a meal
By exercising within the Aerobic Zone before a meal, the body will burn some of its stored body fat and at the same time increase the metabolic rate. As most people do not own a heart rate monitor to help them determine whether they are exercising within the Aerobic or Anaerobic Zone, it is only advisable that people should walk to ensure their heart rate does not increase into the Anaerobic Zone. By exercising within the Anaerobic Zone, a person uses the Stored Glycogen rather than body fat, which results in extreme craving for carbohydrate post exercise. This craving is to restore the body's Glycogen. It is for this reason that people who exercise hard sometimes complain about their inability to loose body fat once they reach a certain level. It is important to point out that the Anaerobic exercise will increase the metabolic rate far more than the Aerobic exercise does, but unfortunately the amount of calories consumed through craving for simple carbohydrates post Anaerobic exercise is usually far beyond the calories burnt by the temporary increase in the metabolic rate. it is for this reason that when embarking on a weight loss exercise program that the heart rate remains within the Aerobic zone, which is 60% to 70% of the maximum heart rate.
- Drink Green tea
Research has shown that drinking Green Tea will slightly increase the metabolic rate. It is therefore good idea to drink green tea half an hour before a meal.
- Stay away from sugary drinks
It is no secret that drinks high in sugar have excessive calories due to their sugar content, but majority of them also contain a large amount of additives, this puts an excessive load on the Liver as the liver's role is to filter out impurities that enter our body, but in doing so it diverts the liver's focus as a primary organ for metabolising fat.
IMPORTANT: Do not be tempted to resort to using drinks with artificial sugar substitutes as they are shown to have far more serious health consequences (sometime fatal) than obesity.
- Follow weight loss diets
The psychological aspects can be found on the Fat Loss Tips 3 page, where as the physiological as aspects can be found on the Fat Loss Tips page.
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Fat loss tips are designed to help people with weight loss but fat loss must be approached with care. Before following any fat loss tips it is important to consult your medical practitioner. Fat loss is the primary objective of any weight loss program but this fat loss is not sustainable unless all the aspects of obesity have been addressed. A healthy sustainable fat loss is only achievable if the approach adopted addresses the physical as well as the psychological parameters.
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