Burning Fat or Losing Fat?

Burning fat or losing fat... what's the difference?

Most diets seem to concentrate on reducing the intake of fat and calories in order to make you lose weight. Simple maths tells you that if you consume less energy than what you spend in your everyday life, you are likely to lose weight.

This rationale works to some degree, but there are a couple of problems with it.

First, it does not take into account that your body goes into "starvation" mode when you limit your intake of fats and sugars. This, in turn, causes your fat loss to plateau. Then, you continue starving yourself (or depriving yourself), but your weight loss speed decreases substantially.

Second, whilst you lose weight, you also tend to lose muscle... and that is not good my friend. Loss of muscular mass may result in serious conditions as we age (brittle bones, etc).

So, losing weight by deprivation is only temporarely effective, and possibly detrimental in the long run.

Burning fat, on the other hand, means to transform the energy stored in the fat to build muscle.

Yes, you may end up gaining some weight, but in muscle. Your flab will become muscle if you do it right.

How do you do it right?

I've found a free 12-part mini course called Big Fat Lies. You may be interested in getting it together with a free ezine called Fat Burning Tips, and a free 40 page report called "Skyrocket Your Fat Loss Success!". The course has been developed by Tom Venuto, who is an expert body builder and specialises on the topic of burning fat.

Just the mini-course alone is worth looking at... and it's free. Check it out by clicking here.

Remember... you've got nothing to lose... but your fat!



Yours in Health,


Skinny Jeff

Do you have a purpose?

Greetings!

I have to ask you this: do you have a purpose in your weight loss journey?

If not... that may be something you may need to find... straight away!

You see... If your goal is to lose weight, and the method is to "diet" and exercise, chances are that you'll lose momentum, lose a few kilos, and get back into your old habits.

In other words, you may lose interest, find it too hard to stick to your regime, and end up quitting your efforts and reverting back to the "big ol' you" pattern.

How do you find a purpose? What sort of purpose should you find? That's where the word "WHY?" comes into the scene.

Why... you have to ask yourself "why am I doing this for?", and you have to give yourself compelling reasons, so that you can reinforce them into your head day after day till you get there.

Why do you want to lose weight? What's compelling to me, may not be compelling to you and vice versa. For some, vanity is the key: they want to lose weight to look good. For others, losing weight is a health necessity: you have to lose weight because you're a walking time bomb (about to have a stroke or a heart attack). Others may want to lose weight because they've been fat their whole lives.

Think about the reasons for you to pursue your goals... make them compelling, and your journey will be a bit easier and "laser beam focused".


Yours in Health,


Skinny Jeff

Low Fat Apple and Banana Bakes

Greetings!

This weekend you may want to indulge in something delicious and sweet... without putting on weight!

Well, this apple and banana bake may be what you want to try. This recipe serves 4, and it takes about 30 minutes to prepare and bake.... Nice and easy! The best part is that each serving is only 3 WW pts.

Ingredients:

• 4 cored apples
• grated lemon zest (one lemon)
• 4 Tbsp of golden syrup
• 1 Tbsp polyunsaturated margarine
• 1 3/4 Oz cornflakes (50 g)
• 1 Oz dried apricots (chopped) (25 g)
• 4 fl Oz (125 ml) low fat plain fromage frais.... yum!

This is what you do:

1. For starters, preheat your oven to 350 F (180 C);
2. Then sliced the apples into 3 pieces each, and dip them into the lemon juice (this prevents them from going brown);
3. After that, melt the margarine and combine it with the golden syrump. Add the cornflakes and stir them till coated.
4. Add the apricots and mix well.
5. Spray a baking tray with spray cannola oil, or use a baking sheet. Then layer the apples with the conrflake mix.
6. Place the tray in the oven, and bake for 20 minutes or so.
7. When done, mix 1 tsp of lemon zest into the fromage frais, and serve with the apples.

Hey, if you can't get fromais, use low fat yogurt (any flavour will do).

Enjoy! (have a nice weekend!)



Yours in Health,


Skinny Jeff