How your body burns fat

Interesting article...

http://www.active.com/fitness/Articles/How-Does-Your-Body-Burn-Fat.htm?cmp=17-7-692

Up to 85% of your calorie burn has nothing to do with your exercise routine! Food choices are KEY to weight loss.
Have a great day everyone...make good choices

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I especially love this ayalysis:

"Fat doesn't just show up at your door one day, rent a room, and live alone quietly. Fat loves company. Fat's organizing a cocktail party where nobody ever goes home and everyone hangs out around your midsection. The more fat you open the door to, the harder it will be to stop even more fat from inviting itself in."

Thanks for posting the link.

This article explains metabolism and how it works very well. Great article. Thanks for sharing.

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Awesome article on how metabolism works. Explains stuff quite simply!

On the other end I emailed the last paragraph to my mom who: a former athlete at 63 yearsold, has the bones of an 85 year old and now weighs 118lbs and doesn't understand why she is so thin. Well the info on muscle loss as we age is the answer! Hopefully it will get her back to looking for a gym.

Sometimes its important to realize that some people need to eat right and exercise for more than just losing weight.

On a side note, she told me the other day she went to her local Curves (because that's where the older ladies in her small town go) and they turned her away saying "it was counterproductive to have her in there because she is what everybody there is working toward."

She left in tears, because she is on the other end of the spectrum. Not trying to lose weight- but trying to build back bone and muscle utilizing medicine as well as her meds. If I had live there....I woulda....

this is awesome! i like this:

"the term "fat and lazy" is pretty accurate from a scientific standpoint. Fat is lazy, on a metabolic level. It barely burns any calories at all. For your body to support a pound of fat, it needs to burn a mere 2 calories a day. Muscle, on the other hand, is very metabolically active.

This is key (and why muscle is your BFF): At rest, 1 pound of muscle burns three times as many calories every day just to sustain itself—and a lot of those calories that muscle burns off come from fat's storage units. That's why fat hates muscle (and why you should love muscle), because muscle is constantly burning fat off. "

Great article and thanks for sharing. I know it came from the Women's Health magazine, but it definitely applies to men as well as most men's 'pot bellies' are nothing more than a mass of visceral fat and leads to high blood pressure, etc. I am going to do some more research on that because my build lends itself to a 'pot belly' or apple shaped body. And at my age I need to work on muscle retention. Thanks again for posting that link.