3 Secrets You Never Knew About Losing Belly Fat

Here's the deal, there are so many misconceptions when it comes to weight loss, fat loss, losing fat quickly ect. and the bottom line is you really need to keep in mind a few things in order to be successful and reach your goals. The 3 secrets I am going to tell you, when applied, will help skyrocket your fat loss efforts.

Before we get to our main points, I just want to clarify something quickly. Losing weight and losing fat are two different things. When people say they want to lose weight usually they actually mean they want to get rid of excess body fat. Losing fat and keeping muscle is the ultimate goal. This leads us right into our first secret:

1) Shed body fat by carrying more muscle

I hear the groans and crys: I don't want to be bulky! My response: you don't have to be. However, keeping a lean base of muscle mass allows you to burn more calories at rest and when you exercise; the result, you shed fat quicker.

Use a weight training program 2-3 days a week even if you aren't into weight training, the benefits are worth the effort - trust me.  If you're new to weight training get a personal trainer or do some research and start on a full body or upper lower split. Training alone won't do it for you, in fact, an equally important secret you must apply is thus:

2) Take in less calories than you need to maintain your body weight

What on earth does that mean you ask? Let me answer that quickly for you. Firstly, everybody has what's called a basal metabolic rate - in english - the number of calories you need to take in per day to hold your current weight.

Now, heres the strategy: we want to take in 500 calories less than we need to maintain our weight per day. The general guideline is that there are 3500 calories in a pound, therefore, you reduce your calories by 500 over the course of a week and you will lose a pound - pretty simple huh?

Step 1. Go to google and type in BMR calculator. You can do the calculation long hand however this is a quick way to give you an idea about where you stand. There are many sites that offer this so use a couple and take an average. You will be entering your hight, weight, age, activity level ect. Enter in your info and it will output a number - thats your BMR.

Step 2. Take your number and reduce it by 500. Thats going to be our starting point for how many calories we need to take in. Granted this is only an approximation, you will need to apply your own knowlege about your body and how you respond to calorie reduction.

Step 3. Modify as necessary. If you aren't seeing results - tweek your plan. Reduce your calories, bump up your cardio ect.

Ok, on to the last secret for losing fat.

3) There are no secret foods that will magically make you lose fat

How's that for a secret. Contrary to popular belief, no super magic mega food will instantly make you lose 20 pounds in 20 days. In order to see real results when it comes to losing body fat you need a scientific approach, ie. calories reduction, coupled with a training program (weights and if necessary cardio). This is going to to be your answer - sorry if it isn't what you were looking for.

To summarize real quick, in order to reduce the level of fat your carry you want to put on muscle which helps burn calories, you want to come up with a scientific approach by calculating your basal metabolic rate (number of calories you need to maintain your weight and subtract by 500 - modifying when necessary) and you need to understand that there are no elusive secrets that only a couple people know. You need to work hard and stick to your plan - that is what's going to yield you the results.

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