How Can I Lose Weight Fast

In part one of this article, if you want to lose weight fast for your long-term health and fitness success, then avoid diets.

In this second part, here is the way for you to get rid of fat fast by transitioning from your current lifestyle to one that creates a lean, strong body and lasting health.

From a nutritional point of view, you need a healthy balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in your diet.  This will keep your metabolism high, which will allow you maximum fat burning.  

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Fad diets have a coolness factor, like the “Hollywood Diet”, that sometimes makes them irresistible at first.  But in the long run I’ve found it best to go back to the basics of what your body needs and craves for your fitness and good health.

Let’s talk about that… 

Complex Carbohydrates (whole grains, breads, cereals, etc.) are necessary to maintain your energy throughout the day and do a many other things in your body to keep you healthy and feeling full.  I’ll also lump fruits in with complex carbs, because of their high fiber content and slow absorption into the blood stream, controlling your insulin level, which is important for lower fat storage and aid you to losing weight fast.

Simple Carbs, or sugars (candy, soda pop, white processed baked goods, etc) are to be limited and kept to a minimum.  They provide little nutritional value to you and are what I often refer to as empty calories. They just add calories to your body with little or no nutritional value.   

These calories are going to end up in your fat stores if you’re not careful with how much you consume.  So with that in mind I find that limiting yourself to having simple carbs on special occasions is best for losing fat.

If you are eating too many low carb foods you can forget about “losing weight fast” here.  Of course, many people are aware of the blood sugar and insulin connection with eating too many simple carbs.  Our insulin regulates our blood sugar level and takes any excess sugars and stores them as fat.  We then find our self getting far too tired and hungry and repeating this cycle over and over.   The best way to avoid this, I’ve found, is to eat sensible amounts of complex carbohydrates instead.

Proteins (lean meats, fish, poultry, soy, beans and legumes, etc.) are important to maintain the cellular structures in your body.   These proteins provide the building blocks for the lean muscle you’re after, which is essential if you want to burn fat fast.  But as with everything else, don’t go overboard with protein.  Some fitness experts claim that you’ll need a minimum 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight each day. 

There is no real proof that this is this case, but if you ingest more protein than your body needs it will be stored as fat.  It could put a strain on your kidneys and liver.  I’ve found that keeping limiting your protein to a maximum of around 0.5 grams per pound of bodyweight each day is more than sufficient for lean muscle growth. That is the proper amount of protein that my Fat Burning Furnace students need to perform their resistance exercises properly.

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Another important aspect of protein involves whether or not you’re getting your protein from animal or plant based sources.  While the traditional American diet includes most animal based proteins, recent data suggests that a high consumption of animal proteins increases risks for disease.