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Healthy Weight Loss So You Don’t Lose Muscle!

Here is my article published on ezinearticles.com on February 23, 2010. I thought you may find some useful information on healthy weight loss. I hope you enjoy! Don Meyer

Healthy Fat Loss Ensures You Don’t Lose Muscle Mass

People have many questions when it comes to how to have healthy fat loss and how to ensure you don’t lose muscle mass in the process. Always keep in mind and make sure you are following a weight loss program that will keep your health in for front.

The problem with many of the fad diets that are out there are that people are not losing body fat, instead they are losing water weight and muscle mass.

Fat loss is the number one goal of any good weight loss program. Muscle mass is important to burning calories. The more muscle mass, the more calories you will burn. Burning the fat instead of losing water and muscle weight is also very important so you don’t look soft. If you have seen someone who has lost weight and not built up any muscle mass, they take on a soft looking appearance.

In achieving healthy fat loss, you need to add lean proteins, vegetables and fruits in moderate amounts. Let your body get used to eating a healthy diet. Most importantly, stay away from fast food and processed foods, which will destroy any good weight loss program.

Eat 5 to 6 mini meals per day instead of 2 or 3 large meals. This lets your body know that there is no reason to think it is starving. When your body realizes you are eating every couple of hours, it will begin to burn calories again. When we go with out breakfast and then eat 2 meals, we are confusing our body and it actually slows our metabolism down.

To achieve healthy fat loss it is important that we exercise regularly to build our muscle mass. Remember, we don’t want to look soft! Try getting your heart rate up at least 4 to 5 times per week for 30 minutes each work out. Watch your body change as you lose fat and gain muscle mass, you’ll see the change! This will inspire you to do more and you will feel great about yourself.

Don Meyer is the founder of My Rapid Fat Loss, where you can find out the latest information on healthy fat loss tips and techniques and hear the opinions of others on rapid fat loss, nutrition and living a healthy life style.

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7 Secret Tips to Losing Body Fat

If you follow these 7 secret tips to losing body fat everyday, you will melt away your body fat quickly.  Losing weight is one of the hardest things there is to do. What we really want to accomplish is not only losing weight, but we want to lose body fat as well. This is where we will really see the results we have been looking for. When you lose weight, you are losing other thing also; for example, muscle loss and water weight.

1. Eat a lot of protein. This is one of the most important parts of losing body fat. When you are dieting your body will burn carbohydrates to give you energy. When your body runs out of carbohydrates to burn, your body will turn to burn fat to give you energy. When your protein intake is low your body will begin to use muscle as energy. You definitely don’t want muscle loss, this will give you a “soft” look. Eat a protein bar or a protein shake throughout the day to avoid burning muscle. It is recommended that you eat at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight per day.

2. Lower your carbohydrates or you will find it very difficult to lose fat quickly. Your body will burn the carbs for energy and will not need to burn the fat. The problem is that everyone likes carbs. I personally love bagels, but if you eat your carbohydrates early, like at breakfast time, it will help to give you energy to start your day and you will burn the carbs as the day goes on. When the carbs are burnt off for energy then your body can start to burn the fat.

3. Take multi-vitamins to replace the nutrients you are losing during weight loss. These nutrients are essential to a healthy, fat burning body.

4. You have heard this a million times before, don’t eat before you go to bed. Your metabolism is slowing down. You should stop eating 3 hours before bedtime.

5. Do cardio exercises. You should plan on doing cardio exercises 4 times per week for at least 20 minutes per session. Each week plan on adding an extra 5 minutes until you are up to 45 minute cardio workouts. The best time to do this is first thing in the morning and before you eat anything. This will help you burn fat quicker.

6. Drink plenty of water. The importance of this is over looked by many. Our body is 70% water and needs a lot of water to run effectively. Water helps to transport nutrients to your body as well as flushing out toxins. Water also helps to build quality muscle, which will help you in losing body fat.

7. Eat several small meals a day to lose body fat, instead of 2-3 large meals. By eating 5-6 small meals a day you are keeping you metabolism in high gear all day long. When you eat 3 meals a day your metabolism has a lot of time between meals to slow down.

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