How to Lose Fat.

Think of Fat as Famine Anticipation Tissue.  Fat is for your body in times of famine.  Your body is geared to be efficient.  If you go on a starvation diet your body will fight to live.  It will lower your body temperature - burning fewer calories.  You will feel tired - less motivated to burn calories.  Your body may even start using protein or lean body mass for fuel.  That is terrible and counter productive.  So the question becomes how do you burn fat?  In your cells are mitochondria.  These organelles are the cell's powerhouse.  They burn sugar or fat so your muscles can do work.  

You need to do 2 things.  One, have your body produce more   mitochondria and two have them burn fat.  You can produce more mitochondria by doing exercise on a consistent basis. Your mitochondria will burn fat if you exercise.  If you eat a diet low in starch and simple sugars that will help also.  It is a slow process.  Your body wants to hold onto fat in anticipation of starvation.  So do NOT diet by starving yourself.  It will only make getting rid of the fat even harder.  Eat smaller meals but more of them.  Try to not eat after 7 at night.  Have a larger breakfast, a midmorning snack, a smaller lunch, an afternoon snack, and a small dinner.  Make sure the snacks have some protein.  It helps to smooth out the uptake of glucose and your blood sugar levels.  


In the past 4 months my pants got looser, my weight stayed about the same.  I went and got a hydrostatic test. I lost 3 lbs of fat and gained 5 lbs of muscle.  This change will help me a lot.  The muscle burns more calories per day per pound than fat does.