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Coming out of the old year 2011, and heading into the new year 2012, some if not most of us will be thinking of the best way to lose fat. Given the amount of food we must have eaten over the end of year break, it’s always a time when new year resolutions tend to focus on losing the pounds of unwanted fat, we unknowingly (or in some cases knowingly!) piled on to our waists and body parts.

Is there really a best way to lose fat? We don’t think there is one best way to lose fat which will work across the board for anyone regardless of body type, age and lifestyle. But there can be many ways which can come close. Often the key in finding the best way to lose fat often comes down to your attitude.

The question then becomes is there a best way to lose fat for you? The answer is of course yes but it’s not going to be easy. To work out the best way to lose fat for you, there are many factors you will need to take into account. Some we have covered above – gender, age, body type, lifestyle, genes, net worth, health and so many others which I cannot think of right now.

However, there are also ways which will bring good results to anyone regardless of those factors. The thing to remember is that, the results you will get if you do only the minimum, without looking deeply into your own individual situation, will vary widely from one person to the next.

Some of us who are blessed with good genes, will be able to get the best results, without doing too much training.

Similarly, those of us without good genes really need to do more work to get the same results as those who have good genes.

By good genes, I meant those who are healthy and are blessed with more fast twitch muscle fibre (even if those are not fully developed), good body type and so forth. These two types of people are really on the extreme end of the spectrum. Most of us will be somewhere in the middle of these two types and that is still okay.

The only thing I can think of right now – is to get into the attitude of trying out different things. You like running? Good – use a program which centres around running and mix it up by varying the distance and the pace used. You like weight training – try that instead and mix it up with exercises utilising your body weight.

Trying new exercises, new habits, new ways of doing things is not only fun. Over time, it will bring you closer (and in some cases faster) to your weight loss goals.  Taking this approach towards your training will help you know what kind of exercises will work or will not work for you, so you can plan your training better.

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Losing Fat Gaining Muscle has got to be one of the easiest topic to write about when it comes to losing weight and losing fat. Sorry let me rephrase that, when it comes to “losing weight fast” and “losing fat fast”.

The reason is that these two things normally go hand in hand. Surprise? I bet some if not most of you, are surprised but I really kid you not. In fact, I am deadly serious. Losing fat gaining muscle is one of the best, if not the best way of achieving your fat loss goals.

In the good old days, muscle building was considered bad for sports performance mainly because our knowledge of muscles in physiology was not properly understood back then.

It was not until a decade or two ago, that through research and advancement in sports development, we came to know that muscles can greatly enhance sports performance for short intensive events such as gymnastics, 100m or 200m races.

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It is now widely known that having more and bigger muscle fibres in your body, will lead to two things :–

(1) Your Internal Metabolism will be Maintained or Raised.

This means that your body will be burning excess energy faster than someone with less muscle fibres. Even when you are resting (i.e. – during rest days when you are not training), your body will still continue to burn excess energy and fat. This effect happens a lot to body builders.

(2) You will Burn your Extra Fat much Faster.

This is mainly caused by the raising of your metabolic rate. Having none or less muscles does not mean that you won’t be able to lose fat, you will still be able to lose fat, it just that it won’t be as fast as when you do have muscles.

So What Does This Mean?

Losing fat gaining muscle means that you should incorporate muscle building routines into your fat loss program. One way of doing that is to join a gym to do strength or weight training or do resistance exercises such as squats, push-ups, pull-ups which utilises your body weights.

This does not mean that you should ignore your cardiovascular training. By all means continue to do cardio exercises as well, but don’t do too much cardiovascular exercises. Do more strength and resistance based exercises instead.

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Note also that the exact opposite will occur when you starve yourself. Your metabolic rate will then slowed down to conserve energy meaning that you will not be able to burn more fat or burn a lot of fat.

Losing fat gaining muscle is one of the most effective ways to get down to that size that you have always wanted. Besides you will look much better with some muscles, than without or not enough.

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In my last post some time ago in Sept 2011, I told you about my fasting and how I managed to lose about 5-6kgs simply by going on a vegetables and fruits fast. I become so fascinated by this that I have tested a way to do intermittent fasting to lose weight. This is what I believe would happen based on my testing and based on my experiences. Unfortunately I cannot lose too many pounds of fat, as I haven’t got much to lose but you can pick out the important information from my post.

I have heard of other people advocating intermittent fasting to lose weight but I haven’t really tried it out for myself to see if it gets me anywhere or if it’s effective for people to know, until now. For those of you who are in the Weight Loss industry, the idea seems sound in theory, even if it takes more will power and discipline to carry out. But does it really work? I was dead keen on finding so I tried intermittent fasting to lose weight.

Intermittent Fasting to Lose Weight Can Do This to You

In reality, intermittent fasting to lose weight, works very very effectively as long as you stick to the basics. For me, I didn’t go as far as not eating anything because I was worried about my metabolism slowing down and during the times I was fasting – we had a lot going in our lives (both at home and at work), so I stick to eating only fruits, vegetables and some nuts (remember nuts have essential oils but they are full of fat).

For each fasting, which lasted a period of about 6 to 7 days, I lost about 4-5 pounds every time. In between the fasting, I gave myself a maximum of 1 day to eat anything I like, which included meat, fish, ice cream and so forth. Because I don’t want to lose too much weight, I only did the intermittent fasting 3 times. In total, I lost about 12 pounds. That means I must have gained back about 3 pounds in between the fasting and I attribute that to my eating during the time when I came off the fast.

My intermittent fasting to lose weight does seem a little too short to get anything conclusive or concrete out of it, but there are some gems in my findings and no doubt, I will keep experimenting on myself, or find someone else to experiment on, during this year 2012. By the way – all the best for the new year, I will write something about that soon.

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