What You Need To Know About Fat Loss

I have talked about this a TON lately with my fat loss clients. Right now I want to run down what fat loss is.

Fat loss is the removal of stored body fat from your body. In order to achieve fat loss you need to be in a deficit of energy. Meaning that what it takes to run your body for a day, you need to consume less than. If your body needs 2000 kcal of energy to run and you consume 1500 calories, you are in the negative by 500 calories.

Now let's take away the numbers and think about what that really means.

Your body, in order to function properly, needs a certain amount of energy. One could compare this to say a flashlight. Oh here comes another analogy!!!

A flashlight running on 100% perfect charged batteries shines bright, is lucid, and performs perfectly when needed for a task.

What happens when those batteries start to drain of energy?

The light is less bright, performance is shaky, and the crystal clear stream of light is now muddy.

You know how it is when the batteries are almost dead, you start to bang the flashlight to get those extra jolts of connection just before that moment where the fat lady has sung and no more power.

NOW, imagine your body is that flashlight and as time goes on your batteries are running low. How are you going to feel?

-Less lucid, foggy
-easily emotional -fatigue
-hunger
-harder to wake up in the morning
-muscle soreness
-sadness

These are not symptoms of overtraining...these are symptoms of fat loss.

Think about it folks, you are removing a physical substance from your body. It was once there and you are trying to make it no more. You might say well I put it on easily taking it away can't be that hard.

Well, when is the last time you glued something? How easy was that to get on? How much of a pain was it to get off?

So just fat loss alone doesn't feel good, it shouldn't feel good, anyone that tells you it will either doesn't know, or doesn't want you to know. That doesn't mean fat loss isn't good for you if you are overweight. Just saying it isn't a walk in the park for the body.

This is why I try to get my clients to lose fat as quick as they can, but as safely as they can. So that The Drain Effect doesn't turn into what we are going to talk about in part two.

(*hint it's not adrenal fatigue*)
This article was written in full by Leigh Peele NASM-CPT. You can find out more about Leigh Peele and her articles, products and services at http://fatlosstroubleshoot.com and http://avidityfitness.net.

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So in the last section (Fat Loss Effects Part 1) we talked about how even in the healthy part of fat loss you don't feel so sun shiny great. Now we are going to talk about what happens when you take this effect to another level or allow it to go on for too long.

Some clients have come to me having been in on a diet in one form or another for the majority of their life. They have had short bouts of breaks but for the most part, life for them has been a never ending bulk and a cut cycle, now whether or not during the heavy eating they were lifting that's another story. Still though that "feed and don't feed" pattern is ingrained into their natural habit and activity. Combine this with training and we receive a ticket to overtraining.

Now before I dive right in yes, I am mixing, this is not a conversation about overtraining meaning I am assuming training. Note that most of the following problems can occur by eating a low caloric diet for too long if you aren't training AND some of these problems can present themselves if you aren't taking good training rest even if your feeding is on point.

Good? Moving on.

If you don't feed your body well enough for an extended period of time what do you think is going to happen. What if you decided to drive your car with little to no oil day after day after day? Stuff would start wearing down wouldn't it, wouldn't be functioning right. The concept is really pretty simple people, drive hard, fuel hard. CAN'T CHEAT THE BODY. Go ahead though, defy the law, here is what to look for if you do.

* Sudden inability to complete workouts
* Feeling unmotivated and lacking energy
* Increased susceptibility to colds, sore throats and other illnesses
* Loss in appetite
* Decrease in performance * Insomnia
* Pain in the muscles and/or joints
* Fatigue
* Headaches
* Elevated morning pulse

In short you don't feel so hot and why should you, your running on empty over and over again. Did I mention how horrible for fat loss this is?

So what is the best method to assure yourself that you are training for fat loss, but not burning yourself out? How do we gauge the middle ground that leads us to the ultimate goal we have?

OOOHH NEXT TIME

This article was written in full by Leigh Peele NASM-CPT. You can find out more about Leigh Peele and her articles, products and services at http://fatlosstroubleshoot.com and http://avidityfitness.net.

*You can use this article in Full on your websites as long as you include the above information*