the best,fastest and easiest way to reduce fat?

Answer 1

First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

well, to lose one pound, you need to burn off 3,500 calories. So determine how many pounds you want to lose and multiply it by the aforementioned caloric amount - that is the total of how many calories you will need to burn in order to lose the desired weight. Then divide that number by the amount of days in which you want to get this accomplished, and you will get a number of calories that you need to burn daily in order to reach your goal. Also, for every pound you lose, your body requires 8 calories less in food/drink intake daily, so that is important to take into account in order to maintain the weightloss afterwards. The reason why so many weight loss programs fail even once a person reaches their desired weight goal is because they continue to eat the way they used to - the smaller a person is, the less calories their body needs, so you will have to cut back on some calories as you burn the weight off to keep it from returning. Also, to burn off one calorie requires about 22 steps, so do any type of physical activity you can in order to burn as many calories as you can daily. Even if you can't exercise or if you have a desk job, you can still incorporate some physical activity - anything from stretching, to moving your legs while you sit and work - even something like the motion of chewing gum burns calories (avoid those with too much sugar though). Basically, as long as you move, you are burning calories, so find a way to move whenever you can - there is no permanent quick weight loss trick out there - and those that do work, many times hurt your health and you end up putting all the weight back on (and some extra) - as old and cliche as it is - consuming less calories while increasing physical activity is a guaranteed way to burn off fat and keep it off. Good luck.

Answer 3

Besides the obvious drink 4oz grapefruit juice before each meal. The acid eats any injested fats. And also drink lots of water. This flushes fats also.

Answer 4

Ignore the diet guides and just learn to eat a balance of all the food groups and excercise to burn off excess fat.

Answer 5

Eat properly, exercise 3 times a week (cardio esp), drink plenty of water.

Or get a personal trainer if you are a millionaire! Which I wish I could afford

Answer 6

go nuts

Answer 7

Diet and Exercise Forsure

Answer 8

lose weight = lose fat - get on a natural and healthy high energy drink (to curve the appetite and increase metabolism) along with a natural and healthy no diet weight loss plan and you will be well on your way to answering your own question

Answer 9

every morning run at least two kilometer
do exercise everyday
or
yoga is best
when you do yoga you can reduce the fat
and you will get more energy

Answer 10

Dont eat food with high saturated fat content and work out every day.

Answer 11

the best is drink more water, it will keep you hydrated and full, be active and dance or whatever activity, you enjoy doing ( and i don't mean sleeping), there are many good tips for easy and fast weight loss in the site www.fitnesshigh.com