Subscribe RSS FeedEach year thousands of people lose some weight by following a short term fad diet only to put the weight back on again once the diet ends. This is really unsurprising. To maintain a healthy weight you must not eat any more food than your body needs to sustain itself. To lose weight you must eat less.
There are two key factors to losing weight;
- Diet – consuming fewer calories than you need
- Fitness – exercising your body to burn fat and build muscle
Both of these must be done to guarantee weight loss. You can be sure that every single person that has ever uttered the words “I have tried everything to lose weight” has not actually followed a proper weight loss plan, or at least not followed one correctly. Years of research by both scientists and fitness instructors has shown that to lose belly fat and get a flat stomach, a combination of diet and exercise is absolutely vital.
Why is this so? Well, if you just go on a diet all you usually do it starve your body of essential nutrients and cause your muscles to start wasting away. As you eat less your metabolism slows down and you stop losing weight. By exercising you prevent the metabolism slow down.
If you just exercise then in time you become more efficient at exercising. Also the average person is not actually fit enough to lose signifacant amounts of weight through exercise – most people simply are not fit enough.
Professional athletes may consume over 5000 calories per day but they are capable of training incredibly hard. Athletes train for hours every day, often in 2 or 3 sessions. The amount of calories that they burn is just huge compared to what the average person trying to lose weight can do. So, exercising by itself seldom helps people to lose weight.
The answer is simple – you need a full weight loss plan that involves the following 3 essential elements:
- Weight loss diet with nutrition advice
- Intensive cardio workouts to burn fat and get fit
- Weight training workouts to build muscle and increase metabolism
These 3 together almost guarantee weight loss, but each on their own can result in failure. This is why we recommend the The Weight Destruction eBook which provides an excellent introduction to losing weight and getting fit at the same time. With workouts and nutrition advice you should be able to start your own personal weight loss plan as soon as you have downloaded and read the book.
This eBook is free to download from Weight Destruction and contains links to other useful resources on fitness and weight loss.
