Lose Weight Fast

If your body needs to move in a moderate to high intensity way, it is carbohydrate that is the best fuel for the job. If your body is moving about at low intensity for long periods of time, then fat is the best fuel for sustainability. Protein as a fuel is a bit of a no-no. It is really meant to help keep your body tissues healthy and to repair any damage that might occur. Protein should never be used as a fuel-source for your muscles to use as energy. Your body is not very good at storing ATP - it can usually only keep it for a few seconds at a time - so you are always having to replace ATP during body movements. Making new supplies and using these supplies of ATP is known as metabolism.

From the information above, it doesn't take a genius to understand that, if you exercise for short periods of time at high intensity such as an aerobic workout, you are going to quickly burn off any carbohydrate hanging about in your body and, after a while, your body will start to burn fat. Not just that, but your body can carry on burning fat with low intensity energy for long periods of time. So, take up cross-country running, go jogging for a couple of miles, or take your dog for a five-mile walk uphill. The dogs will love you for it and you will feel much better for it - as well as being a good way to Lose Weight Fast, walking is a sustainable form of exercise and, buying a dog is generally cheaper than purchasing a gym membership!

You will have gathered by now that our food cannot be turned into energy without enzymes - and your body only makes a certain amount of them at a time. As you eat your highly cooked, highly refined meal, all your various enzymes are trying to cope with this deluge of nutrients being poured into your stomach and duodenum. Your enzymes are working overtime, so hard, in fact, that your body has to borrow other enzymes allocated to different jobs in the body, to help in the digestion of your food. The trouble is, these borrowed enzymes might have been allocated to the energy cycles. So, what happens? The metabolic enzymes get diverted to help digest your food and, as a result, your body becomes 'sluggish' and you find you have no energy - the reason behind that feeling of falling asleep in the afternoon, after lunch.

Over time, you will have less overall energy, your immune system will be less effective and you will start to gain weight. You may experience the start of a string of unexplained illnesses, perhaps culminating in a chronic illness and feel you have been caught up in a never-ending cycle. Then, of course, you get into the habit of trying different weight loss programs, losing weight, and then putting it back on again - because you have never addressed the issue at the heart of the problem. While there are many diets which help you to lose weight fast, unless you understand the key points behind them, it is difficult to know how to resolve any problems you might encounter. There are a huge number of fat loss remedies out there, many of them based on quite sound principles - if you discount some of the logic they come up with! Even the poor old Grapefruit Diet has many things to recommend it and, if it works for you, why not? It would certainly be a refreshing weight loss program.

The most important thing to remember when trying to lose weight is that you have to stick to it long enough for it to have any effect. No matter how many weight loss tips you read about, until you actually settle down and begin to diet, you will not lose weight. So, it is up to you. I am not going to tell you the Lemonade Diet is all bad, or the Scarsdale Diet is the best thing since sliced bread. Everybody's lifestyle is different and, if they limit what they eat for long enough, and increase the level of exercise they do on a daily basis, most people will find they will lose weight.

You might find the Lighterlife diet is the diet that works best for you - this combines cognitive therapy with a very restrictive diet of around 550 calories a day in liquid format. For me, this is a total no-no as I am not really a 'joiner' and prefer to go it alone when dieting. Other people swear by it. For me, counting calories works best - for no other reason than I have the freedom to eat exactly what I want as long as it is within my daily allowance. My brother swears by Slimfast - that works for him. We are all different and, despite the fact that our goals are very similar, we all approach that goal from different angles and in our own ways - and that is the way it should be.

Metabolism can take place in two ways: either with oxygen or without it, known respectively as aerobic and anaerobic. They are often used in combination with each other. The anaerobic pathway is often called the Phosphate System. This way of getting energy provides enough power for 10 seconds worth of fierce activity. Any ATP already stored in your muscles is used first. This last 2 to 3 seconds and, after this, ATP is manufactured by creatine phosphate, lasting for around 6 to 8 seconds.

After your body has exhausted this route of obtaining energy is starts using the metabolic pathway. This can be anaerobic, known as glycolysis, or aerobic metabolism. Glycolysis burns carbohydrates to create ATP and this can last for several minutes' of high intensity energy use. The side effect of this anaerobic metabolism is a build-up of lactic acid. After several minutes the body reaches the lactate threshold. This causes us to feel exhausted and to experience appalling muscle pain with a burning sensation in our muscles - most of us have experienced it at some time or other.

Lactate threshold can be roughly translated into 'give up and have a rest' in most people's vocabularies! However, if you do have the stamina to work through this, aerobic metabolism takes over. Our food is converted into fuel and, with aerobic metabolism, all the nutrients from our food are used together - carbohydrates, fats, and protein. I am telling you this so that you don't get taken in by the 'don't combine foods' fat loss remedies. Again, they have taken the concept out of context! To explain further, for long-term sustainable energy, your body can very efficiently take the nutrients from carbohydrates, fats and proteins, together, and convert it very effectively into ATP. The reason this method of metabolism isn't used immediately by the body is because it is too slow. To use this method your body has to allow the oxygen in our blood circulatory systems to take the nutrients to our muscles before your body can convert it into ATP.

As we all know, all the experts tell us that we must exercise to get our hearts pumping and the oxygen flowing through our bodies - well, that is the reason why we are told to do this. When you first start to workout, you have a warm-up session on the bike or the treadmill and, you will notice your heart starts to pump harder and you might begin to feel a bit breathless. As your breathing deepens and your heart rate increases, more blood is pumped around your body, carrying valuable oxygen to the muscles. This continues until you reach the lactate threshold and then, because oxygen can only reach the muscles at a certain speed, anaerobic metabolism kicks back in until lactic acid builds up and your exercise intensity slows down due to fatigue and the awful pain of lactic acid build-up in your muscles.

So, to lose weight fast, or to even lose weight regularly over a period of time, the best weight loss tips I can give you, is to eat sensibly from each of the food groups - carbohydrate, fat, and protein - and exercise regularly. As far as exercise goes, the most effective way to exercise if you are following any healthy weight loss programs is to incorporate short, intense aerobic exercises with lots of low intensity exercise like long walks, or long gentle bicycle rides in the country with the family, or walking the dogs on a regular basis. A combination of different exercises plus a healthy diet will do wonders for your weight loss program.