Healthy Eating Plan

Fat burning workouts are pretty easy, as long as you have the perseverance to stick with them.  Combined with eating in a way that helps speed fat burning, they result in a leaner, meaner you.

Every day, seven days a week, do some sort of aerobic activity.  Aerobic exercise is any activity that gets your heart pumping faster but not so fast that it struggles or you’re gasping for breath.  Walking, running, swimming, even some forms of yard work are aerobic exercises.  For another step towards better health, add intervals to the aerobics.  These are bursts of higher activity that help boost the metabolism even more.  That means run between periods of walking, or burst to speed while swimming at an steady pace.

The health guides that say to perform aerobic exercise three times a week or even five times a week are steering you wrong.  The body needs this work every day.  For an activity to perform every day, make sure it’s something not too hard.  The best time for aerobic activity is before breakfast, so the body burns stored fat.  In addition to this aerobic exercise add a 10-30 minute after lunch or dinner walk to your daily routine.  Finally, look for opportunities to move.  This can mean anything from parking further from the office so you have to walk further to the door, to using the stairs instead of the elevator, to raking leaves instead of blowing them.

Build muscles with weight training at least three times each week.  Bigger muscles make your metabolism speed into overdrive.  A faster metabolism will burn more calories even when you’re not moving.  You’ll also feel better and look better just because of the toned muscle.  

Never skip breakfast, lunch or dinner.  If you do your body gets a message that it’s starving, and breaks into slow metabolism mode.  A slow metabolism is not a friend of fat burning.  Another way to avoid slow metabolism is to make sure to eat enough every day.  For most people this means at least 1200 calories each day.  Any fewer and your body drops into starvation mode, working against your efforts to use up fat.

Fat burning workouts combined with healthy eating can have amazing results.  They don’t have to be hard.  In fact if it’s too hard you’ll lose motivation and drop the program.  Too many people get gung-ho on working out after Christmas, or just before the summer beach season, but don’t even make it for a month before the difficult workouts ground them into quitting.  Don’t be one of these start and quit health enthusiasts.

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