How To Get Your Body To Burn Fat For Fuel
Everyone with a desire to lose weight or even maintain their ideal weight wants to know how to increase metabolism so that their body will burn fat calories for energy. If you want to know how to burn fat fast keep reading because in this article we are going to cover several different ways that you can use to burn fat fast so that you can have lean scuplted body that you've always wanted.
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Why Does The Body Burn Fat?
Your body needs calories to get through each day, the amount of calories varies based on your age, weight, percentage of lean body mass, and your level of activity. If you consume more calories than your body requires, it will store the excess calories for later use. Take in 3,500 calories above your needs over time, and you will gain one pound.
The process also works in reverse. If you are active enough to use more calories than you eat, you will create a calorie deficit. To get the needed fuel, the body will turn to its energy stores and depending on the type of activity it will burn glycogen (carbohydrates), fat, or protein broken down from the muscles. When you burn 3,500 calories more than you take in over time, you will lose one pound. This sounds simple enough, but here is how it works.
The body absorbs the food from a typical meal in approximately 2 to 4 hours. This is known as the “absorptive state” and during this time the pancreas releases insulin into the bloodstream. Insulin promotes the synthesis of glucose (a sugar that is the body’s most abundant energy source), amino acids (the building blocks of proteins), and triglycerides (the body’s storage form of fat).
During the absorptive state, glycogen is created and stored by the liver in its own cells from the calories of carbohydrates you have eaten. The liver can hold about 100 grams worth of glycogen, or about 400 calories. All the body's tissues can use the glycogen in the liver. But once its stores are full, it passes extra carbohydrates into the bloodstream. Muscle tissue will then absorb them and stores them as muscle glycogen. Depending on your body and how much muscle you have, your muscles can store between about 200 and 400 grams of glycogen. Once the glycogen storage capacity of your liver and muscle is full, the liver removes the excess carbohydrates from the blood and turns them into fat.
At the same time all of this is going on, the liver is also building triglycerides, or fat molecules, from absorbed dietary fat and delivering them to other tissues, in particular to fat and muscle cells which store them for later use as fuel in the right conditions.
What are the right conditions for fat to turn into fuel?
When the body gets enough calories, glucose broken down from muscle glycogen is the primary fuel for muscles to do their work. As long as you eat enough, your muscle energy will come from this source. Of course, the more you move your body, the more you use up your glycogen. And once you deplete the glycogen, the muscles begin using fat.
So for muscle tissue to burn fat, you must first exhaust the glucose circulating in the blood and the glycogen stores in muscle. That’s why one of the best times to perform aerobic exercise is in the morning on an empty stomach. The body has been fasting for hours, glycogen and glucose levels are low, and the potential to burn fat is high. The benefits rise even more if you stop eating carbohydrate-rich foods in the late afternoon. And they’ll further compound if you go for a walk in the evening. The best aerobic exercise in the morning, in my opinion, is a fast-paced walk of at least 45 minutes. Fast walking is true aerobic exercise which utilizes fat for energy when conditions are right, as in the morning before breakfast, and when done for at least 45 minutes.
The following tips will help your body burn fat more effectively:
Fat Burner #1: Build Muscle. The absolute number 1 way to burn fat fast is to build up your muscles. Your body's muscles are metabolically active which is to say that they require energy to be sustained. One pound of muscle burns about 45 calories of energy per day. So by adding 10 pounds of muscle you boost your metabolism by 450 calories per day. Lifting weights as part of a well rounded strength conditioning program is the best way to build muscle. In the Magnetic Diet a method of strength conditioning (Energization Exercises) is described which does not require any equipment and is very effective.
Fat Burner #2: Aerobic Exercise. Cardio is another great way to speed up metabolism naturally. Whether it is walking, running, a cardio class at the gym, or playing with your family getting your heart rate up will burn calories and increase metabolism by virtue of what has become known as the after burn effect. To calculate how many calories you can increase metabolism by for over 72 different activities use this exercise calorie calculator. It will calculate how much you can speed up metabolism by based on weight and duration of the activity.
Fat Burner #3: Sip a Gallon of Water Each and Every Day. While most fitness experts advocate drinking 8 glasses of water a day, the magnetic diet teaches that we should instead sip a gallon of water over the course of a day to help our bodies burn fat. Sipping a gallon of water will insure that our body is able to detoxify itself, remain properly hydrated and keep our liver functioning properly which is the key to the body's ability to burn fat. Every single day fill a one gallon jug full of water in the morning and keep it with you throughout the day using it as your water supply. You want to finish all of it by the end of the day making sure that you sip it. DO NOT DRINK THE ENTIRE GALLON QUICKLY ALL AT ONE TIME. In addition to its ability to help the body burn fat this practice also helps to control the appetite and act as an food craving suppressant. The Magnetic Diet covers the most powerful method to control food cravings ever developed.
Fat Burner #4: Meditation. How does meditation help to burn fat? Stress both the physical and emotional kinds activate the release of cortisol, a steroid which actually slows down the metabolism. Meditation is one of the most effective methods of relieving stress. By incorporating meditation into your daily routine as is taught in the Magnetic Diet you will calm the mind and the entire physical system. This will help your body burn fat by virtue of a decrease in the release of the steroid cortisol which not only slows metabolism but is also responsible for an increase in belly fat.
Fat Burner #5: Food Magnetism. All foods have one of two types of magnetism. Learn about invigorating magnetism and contaminating magnetism and learn to leverage the field of food magnetism by putting to use the principles and concepts of the magnetic diet in your own life. The Magnetic Diet is the most comprehensive weight loss success manual ever written. How does food magnetism increase the body's ability to burn fat? Foods with invigorating magnetism speed up metabolism naturally by virtue of the nutritional compounds, components, and phytochemicals. Eat the foods on the magnetic diet shopping list and the seven day success plan to burn fat naturally.
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