When trying to lose weight you should not only be concerned about dropping the numbers on the scale. As this does not necessarily mean that you are losing FAT. Read On for Our Top 4 Tips

Here in lies the difficult question, "How Do I LOSE FAT?"

Many people think that cutting calories is the best and fastest method for fat loss. This is not true since by cutting calories too low you run the risk of your body going into ''starvation", where your body will plateau and not allow weight loss since it does not know when you will be receiving another meal. It holds onto all its calories and stores them. Therefore, you should figure out how many calories a day you are eating by plugging in your daily food log into a free online food journaling service such as thedailyplate.com, or nutritiondata.com. You should do this without altering any food choices. You need to first determine how many calories you are consuming before making alterations. THEN, you can cut this by 500 calories. Making sure not to go lower than 1500 calories a day. Dropping too much weight will increase your risk of gaining more weight back in the long run, take your time, MAKE LIFESTYLE CHANGES.

Consuming 1/2 your body weight in ounces of water will help to flush out toxins, fat, and keep your body properly hydrated for maximum fat loss. Some great benefits of water include, being a natural appetite suppressant, helps the body process during digestion, has no calories, helps to relieve fluid retention from too much sodium, keeps bowels regular, metabolizes stored fat, helps keep muscle, regulates body temperature, keeps our breathe moist, and carries oxygen to our cells.Contact Us for More Info On Our FAT LOSS Programs

Consuming enough protein maintains and increases muscle tone. Whether you prefer to consume protein via a shake and powder, a breast of chicken, or a bar, getting enough protein helps ensure that your body maintains the muscle it already has and allows it to build new muscle. Since muscle weighs more than fat it utilizes more calories. Thus in the long run your body will burn more fat stores. Muscle burns fat, FAT does not burn fat, it just remains stored in the body.Think of muscle in a pack-man like way. The more pack-men you have the more they consume, and the faster they consume. The average person should consume .8g/kg of body weight as recommended by the US RDA. As recommended by the American Council on Exercise, research has shown that athletes may need slightly increased levels of protein supplementation.  (2.2 pounds=1KG). Use this formula:

Your Weight Now___________/ 2.2=__________________Weight in KG

Weight in KG______________* .08= Protein requirement per day for average individual.

To calculate for active exercising individuals: Athletes may need anywhere from 1.2 to 1.7 g/ kg.

Therefore, take your weight in KG and multiply it by 1.2 for moderately active to 1.7 for highly active individuals.

Consuming more than these allowance should be avoided since too much protein can add additional stress onto the body functions.You should try to consume no more than 20-30% of your calories from protein.

Increasing exercise intensity, frequency and duration slowly, and often. Individuals who do the same cardio or weight lifting exercises on a regualr basis, for extended periods of time reduce the benefits of their fitness programs.Therefore, it is important for people to continually change their exercise, rep and set numbers, as well as cardiovascular exercises. This may mean you use different equipment: bike, treadmill, elliptical, arc trainer,  recumbent bike, or other outdoor activity. Or integrate a new type of exercise into your program such a if you always do push ups regular, exchange it for push ups with arm raises forward, thus engaging the same muscles in a different manor. You want to make sure that the body is regularly challenged so that it continues to develop and change into more muscle tone.Do not go and add all three of these components in at once (frequency-intensity-duration) should be added in slowly to help prevent plateaus. If you are only allotted a certain amount of time to exercise instead of increasing the length of your routine add in jump rope in between sets to increase your heart rate and fat burning potential, or do crunches as a "working rest" this will add variety as well as keep you body guessing. Contact Us for More Info On Our FAT LOSS Programs