Weight Loss

1. Burning Fat Vs Burning Calories
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To lose weightand get in shape you must have a gooddiet and exercise regularlyto burn fat. The
first thingyou must understandabout exercise isthat just because you are burningcalories does
not mean you are burning fat. Your main focus whenyou exercise shouldbe losingbody fat, and
you can’t lose bodyfat just from burningcalories.Whenwe exercise,ourbodieswill start burning
calories,but the caloriesthat are burnedare the caloriesfrom carbohydrates inour system.In
order to burn calories from your storedfat, your body requiresthe presence ofoxygen.There is a
certain amount of oxygenthat your body needsinorder to start burning fat and the only way for
you to measure the amount neededfor your own body is to keepup with your target heart rate
during exercise.Please understandthatif you continue to only burn caloriesfrom carbohydrates,
you will lose mostly “waterweight” which leadsto a decrease inyour metabolism.Also,thinkof
the caloriesthat are burnedfrom carbohydrates as your energycalories.If you lose too much
energycaloriesthen your muscleswill not receive enoughenergyto increase your metabolism
which indirectlyburn fat. Therefore youmust increase your calorie intake whenyou are on an
exercise program to replace your burned energycalories.
Burning Fat Caloriesduring exercise
During aerobic exercise,yourbody goesthrough several stages before it reachesthe pointwhere
you are burning fat. You will hear people saythat you are only burning sugar (carbohydrates) not
fat during the first10 minutesofexercise.Thisis true to a certain extent.I say this because you
will continue to burn sugar past the 10 minute mark if you are not working out hard enoughfor
your body to want more oxygen;or you are working out too hard and you can’t supplyyour body
with enoughoxygenfor fat burning. Whenyou exercise youmust move at a steadypace (not too
fast, not too slow) so your body will utilize yourstored fat (not carbohydrates or sugar) as its
energysource. Alsorememberthat justbecause you reached the fat burningstage does not mean
you will stay there.Staying at the fat burning stage once again dependsonif you are movingat a
pace that isright for your body. Make sure that you are withinyour target heart rate range.
Burning Fat Caloriesat rest
The onlyway for you to continue to burn fat calorieshours after you have finishedworkingout is
through the anaerobic exercise ofweighttraining.Weighttraining isthe key to burning fat at rest.
Weighttrainingis an anaerobicactivity that will cause you to burn more caloriesthan aerobic
exercise.The caloriesthat you are burningduring weighttraining exercisesare mostly calories
from carbohydrates (meaningyou must eat evenmore caloriesper day for energy);but the
caloriesyou burn at rest are mostly caloriesfrom fat. The reason you are burning fat at restis
because weighttraining increasesyour metabolismwhich usesyour stored fat as energy.