Giving your body no choice but to burn fat daily

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you burn like 50 calories an hour in a hot tub
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Dang it, only 50 calories an hour? That's totally negated by the wine I drink while in the hot tub - well *kitten*, I need to go back to Zumba!

Imagining what the world would be like without condescending *kitten*...

I have been asked a lot on what I do, so I made it easy and posted it. So... if you could kindly exhibit more reasonable behavior and move on, it would be appreciated. I'm sorry I inadvertently triggered your troll button.

Maybe those things you posted work for you, but not everyone.............

I do the complete opposite on some of the things you posted and I am healthier than I have been in a long, long time.

The only way to build muscle and boost your metabolism is through strength training. Cardio doesn't boot fat burning power, but added muscle does as muscle burns more calories.

I do some slow walking with some short bursts of sprints and weight training and at my weight I wear smaller clothes than some people that weigh 30 or 40 pounds less than I do.

I eat a high fat, moderate protein, lowish carb way of eating (carbs from fruits and vegetables).............

This is what I have done to turn myself into a fat burning machine!

1. Nutrition.

When you starve your body of the nutrients it needs it goes into starvation mode. You can be eating like a king yet still starve your body of the nutrients it needs to sustain itself. I suggest adding fruits and vegetables to your daily diet. Fruits should be kept more of a energizing type snack or as a breakfast (which is when lots of us need energy). Vegetables should be at least half of one of your daily meals, but better if it's in two meals. Also lower your animal meat consumption. It's medically proven we ingest too much protein in our diets and it has lead to some awful diseases, but at the very least it contains animal fat. So just think of it as lowering your fat intake.

Starvation mode is a myth when it comes to weight loss, you will have some adaptation but it will be a small amount. Fruits/veggies yum and healthy so Yep. Breakfast could take it or leave it, your metabolism does not run on a 24 hour clock but breakfast can help some start their day off right...zero to do with weight loss. Protein builds muscle, muscle burns more calories at rest. Fat from natural sources also helps keep you feeling full, this helps most not over eat. So meat is a good thing not to mention the iron that you need, takes a lot of spinach to equal a steak.

2. Calorie intake

We hear so much flip flop about the importance of calories, but I would just like to say calorie intake is very important. A woman can take in just 10 extra calories a day and gain a pound a year. This means a 5 lbs a year gain is from eating 50 extra calories a day--which is incredibly easy to do with most diets. An average person needs approx 2,000 calories a day. If you want to promote fat burning, you must take in less calories than what your body needs. If you take in too little of calories, you place your body in starvation mode. There are caloric intake charts and generators all over the internet that will help you figure out what your daily calorie intake should be (https://www.exercise.com/tools/bmr-calculator). Personally I have been easy on myself and gave myself a 1,200 to 1,850 calorie intake limit. I have to take in more than 1,200 but no more than 1,850. This way I am not storing fat and I am forcing my body to burn fat to meet it's caloric needs.

Simple math energy conversion so YES also the reason the above things (paragraph 1) do not matter for weight loss.

3. Build Muscle

Fat is food for muscles. The more muscle you build, the more your calorie intake needs will be. So now all of a sudden a 2,000 calorie need is more like 2,300 but you keep your intake to under 2,000, you will increase your daily fat burning.

Muscle takes protein, and you do not (unless just starting or special snowflake) build muscle in a deficient.

4. Cardio

I hate cardio more than anything! but no one can deny it's fat burning abilities. Adding some cardio a few times a week will also promote extra fat burning, but will not burn fat daily unless performed daily. It is not needed to see results, but will add to the results. If you have a hot tub, try at least sitting in that as often as possible for some light cardio.

Yes I hate cardio but it does work the best for straight weight loss because it burns the most calories at a time BUT it also burns muscle and only burns calories during the time you are doing cardio. Lifting helps maintain muscles when in a deficient and continues to burn calories after you are done working out while the body repairs the muscles.

Your way may work for you, but most of it is just your own beliefs. Can your way give someone the nutrients they need, help them lose weight and feel good? Sure but it is not the only way and does not turn them into a fat burning machine. Weight loss is calorie in vs calorie out. Nutrition is making sure your body has all the nutrients that it needs including protein and fat. Exercise is for fitness and to eat more. You can burn fat and muscle laying in bed 24/7 and eating ice cream at a deficient. <

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Not recommending :noway:

*forehead slap* It's proven we only need 8 grams of protein a day which is in 2 tablespoons of peanut butter. But I'm not arguing with ignorance... it only proves to be mind numbingly annoying.

Where is that proof???? I have never heard such a thing.

That low of protein you will heal very, very slowly from an illness or injury one receives. And that muscle building you spoke about in the original posting...................yeah, not gonna happen with only 8 grams of protein intake.

This is a recipe for skinny fatness all over the place.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/04/animal-protein-diets-smoking-meat-eggs-dairy

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21102327

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/04/285879644/eat-plants-and-prosper-for-longevity-go-easy-on-the-meat-study-says

Okay, maybe I misremembered the grams of protein needed (not that I have been measuring), but the point being is we need a lot less than what we have been led to believe. Not to mention the source of where you get that protein.

http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.php

So most journals of medicine and science will agree about .08 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. I think you mixed the .8 gram with 8 grams total. Understandable mistake. Now about that hot tub cardio...................

EDITED to correct .08 to .8

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For the thread flounce.

Wait a minute, you're saying I can add "hot tub sitting" to my cardio log?? FFS...

How is sitting in a hot tub considered cardio? :huh:

i'm glad i'm not the only one who caught this.

I want to meet the person who sits in a hot tub for 60 minutes for the express purpose of burning 50 calories.