Proper nutrition and exercise is the key to burning fat. With dieters asking, "How do I turn my body into a fat-burning machine", the answer is that you need to eat to burn fat, exercise to get fit. While losing weight is important, its common for most people to focus on burning fat.
You body type and goals will be a part of determining how much you will need to exercise. Its attractive to think that you could lose weight, and burn fat, without doing much of anything at all. There are products out there claiming that you do not need to exercise, but little evidence to prove that's true.
Focusing on a diet that has more protein than carbohydrates is what most people losing weight will need. In addition, taking in less calories than you burn each day will create a "calorie deficit." For you to remain healthy and feeling well, you will need a balanced diet to support your weight loss.
You may know someone who goes on a diet and while they lose weight that also get weaker. This is because they are losing muscle in addition to burning fat. Your body turns to all available energy stores when you run a calorie deficit, that is, when you are burning more calories than you take in each day. Since muscle is the biggest user of calories, losing muscle reduces your body's ability to burn fat.
Burning fat for energy occurs at the end of a cardio workout. Your body burns both carbohydrates and fat for energy and it starts with carbohydrates. Since the amount of carbohydrates available is finite, at some point your body switches to rely more on fat as an energy source. Carbohydrates are the fuel used by your body during the first 15 to 20 minutes based on research available, and thereafter, your body relies mostly on burning fat.
When people find out that building muscle is key to burning fat they sometime get concerned. Some fear that they will have to spend hours at the gym and in the end look like a bodybuilder. Don't let this fear stop you from adding weight training to your workouts. For women you need to know that due to your hormonal makeup, you will not bulk up like a man. Additionally, you want to maintain and tone the muscles you have to support the fat-burning processes of your body.
With weight training as part of your weight loss program, there will be times when your schedule may make it impossible to work out as planned. On those occasions consider some alternatives. Maybe its push ups and crunches in the morning, Yoga or Pilates at the end of the day, or hand weights or resistance bands while you're watching television. Getting some weight-type training in is important even if it's not your usual routine.
If your weight loss efforts have stalled after going smoothly for a while, building muscle can get you off the plateau. While you may not see a result right away on the scale, you will in your clothes and in the mirror. When you replace fat with muscle, it is more compact, which gives you a slim, toned appearance.
You start a weight loss program to get the body you want. The program needs to include the proper nutrition, cardio, and weight training. You eat to burn fat, exercise to get fit.
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