Are you one of those who have tried any and every weight loss supplement and pill without any results? Have you been on several diets such as Atkins and South beach without any results? Have you been told time and again that you may never be able to lose weight and keep it off? Have you even been successful with shedding some of the weight only to add some later? Are you currently finding it hard to maintain the lean sexy shape and weight? Are you thinking of going on another diet?

Truth is, for many people, getting rid of the excess fat and staying that way is only a dream. But it does not have to stay that way. Getting rid of the fat and staying that way is possible if you would only discipline your body and the uncontrollable urge to eat brought on in the first place by the amounts of food you eat. This is exactly what the glycemic index diet tries to do.

The diet is fashioned in a manner that helps you get rid of the excess fat by eating more carbs that are low on the glycemic index and lesser amounts of the high carbs; and in some cases, teaches you how to combine the two forms of carbohydrates to get the best results. The glycemic index diet not only helps get rid of the weight, it also helps keep you in top shape physically. People who follow the diet judiciously have been known to have little or no heart problems.

Examples of foods continuously recommended in the diet are fruits and whole grains. The whole grains which are often in the forms of rice and grain pasta have better benefits when they are eaten in the unrefined form. This is because during the processing, the bulk of the bran and fiber are often wasted away leaving just a tiny amount of it.

For people who have already lost the unnecessary weight and are lean, the glycemic index diet can be a good diet to help maintain that state. In fact, many lean people have been able to keep their body shapes and sizes by making just slight adjustments to the diets. These slight adjustments have resulted in them being able to stay lean. Some of these adjustments include getting some more high GI value carbs in their diet. While this might be confusing, it is important to note that the beginning of the diet often entails keeping off from the high calorie content carbohydrates.

The focus at the time is to burn off as much fat as necessary. This early process often involves the use low GI value foods that will help reduce the hunger pangs. These carbohydrates are often loaded with fiber which can be filling and metabolize at slower rates. Hence, supplying the necessary sugar or glucose needed by the blood gradually instead of suddenly like the high GI value carbohydrates is the key to success. While the GI index diet seems a bit like a no carb diet, it is not. The carbs are extremely important as they supply the needed energy while keeping the individual lean and devoid of unnecessary fat.

Are you one of those who have tried any and every weight loss supplement and pill without any results? Have you been on several diets such as Atkins and South beach without any results?

The secret to fat loss is one that people have been searching for as long as, well, people have been fat. The exercise equipment and fat loss product industries make billions of dollars each and every year from individuals who are looking for a quick fix to super fat loss results. The fact is you don’t need a special piece of equipment that’s offered on late-night TV or a super secret diet plan invented in the Orient in order to get trim and lean.

The only things you need to shed off pounds of fat and get your body in the lean and ripped condition are your two feet and enough motivation to get them moving. There is no question that a simple but effective running workout gets you in the shape that you desire and the only piece of equipment you’ll need is a good pair of tennis shoes. Running can burn more than 500 calories per hour and depending on the intensity and speed of your run, it can burn a whole lot more as well. Some folks don’t know where to begin and assume that a complicated running routine is required in order for them to reach the fat loss goals they are after. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you are looking for a simple but extremely effective running routine that will help you build your cardiovascular endurance and shred pounds of fat from your body than simply follow the routine below and you will get there in no time.

First of all, you have to start slow. If you’ve never run, are out of shape or over-fat and you take off down the road at high speed looking to burn fat before you’ve built up your stamina up, you might risk injury and take your training to a complete halt. Simply start with a walking program for 2-4 weeks to build lower body endurance. Begin each walk at a light to medium pace for about five minutes to get blood flowing through your body to allow your muscles to be properly warmed up for the workout to come. After the initial 2-4week adaptation period, once you have properly established a base conditioning, you may be at a place where you can shift into a light jog. Focus on your breathing and get into a rhythm and jog at a medium pace for about another five minutes.

Once your muscles have been warmed up and your breathing is regular, take off into a light sprint working towards faster jog/sprints as your weight drops and you begin to get into better shape. Jogging sprinting at higher speeds and at all-out intensity will do more for your cardiovascular and fat burning routine than just about anything else out there. No matter what kind of shape you’re in, you will probably only be able to do an all out sprint for about 30 seconds or so. This is fine so, don’t try to overdo it. Once you have completed one jog/sprint combo, slip into a very slow walk/jog once again to allow your body time to recuperate. Once you have walked/jogged for another minute or so switch back to a jog/sprint for another 30 seconds. After about 10 minutes of the sprint and jog intervals, your workout is just about complete. Slow down to a light jog, and then to a walk to allow your breathing to normalize and your heart rate to come back to normal.

This simple workout described above should only take about 30 to 35 minutes but far as fat burning is concerned, it will be one of the most effective routines you may ever do. Simply walk, jog, then run your way to your fat loss goals.

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

Are you overweight? Do you have a big belly or a big butt and you have for most of your life? If you answered yes then losing weight and getting in shape is probably a priority for you. Achieving this goal, however, can be much easier said than done. You see while it is our bodies that will do the actual physical exercise needed to transform them it is our minds that control whether or not that will ever even happen.

Your mind is incredibly powerful and can help you overcome just about any obstacle in life if you let it. Once you truly decide to do something and put all of your mental abilities toward achieving that goal then it will be difficult for anything to stand in your way. This can include overcoming drug or alcohol addiction, smoking, anger issues and yes losing weight and getting in shape. If you are not able to develop the right mindset up front, however, these goals may never be achieved. You see, our mindset is often focused on what exists at any particular time rather than what you want to be. What I mean is if you’re overweight and your mind continues to see your body as being overweight and not as it would look like once you are in shape. It is only through overcoming this negative mindset and allowing you to see or visualize the potential results that can occur through action that you will really achieve results.

Think about it for a second. You saw someone on the beach who was in incredibly good shape or maybe you saw someone wearing clothes that you wish you could fit into. This scenario is probably made you feel less than positive about your body rather than spurred you on to achieve the results you desire. If instead of thinking about how you were at any particular time and focusing on how you could be you could dramatically speed up the results that you achieve from any activities in life. Simply focusing on your goals will help you to achieve them. Your actions and reactions to the things that surround you in your life will help to support your efforts rather than combat them and this has been proven in study after clinical study. If you focus on what you are then you’ll reinforce that, but if you focus on where you want to be you will move toward it. Be the change you want to see!

Overcoming these mental blocks can be just as difficult, if not more so, as simply exercising and eating right. The fact is they represent a critically important step in your achieving your body goals and you must work on changing your mindset first even before developing an effective exercise routine. There are many ways to help you achieve the proper mindset and these can include motivational books, CDs you can listen to in your car or at work, or in person seminars where you could hear from speakers who have used these techniques to great success in their own lives. While some people look at using these tools as foolishness, those that adopt the right mindset and simply use them as an aid in their overall program, the results can be absolutely staggering.

Making the decision to completely change the way you look, feel, and view your body from now on may be one of the most important and positive steps you ever take in your life. Know that changing this mindset can be tough, but if you focus on your goals and use motivational tools to help you along then you can absolutely achieve the positive results that you desire.

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching and previous NPC judging experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

Did you ever feel that no matter what you did inside or outside the gym or how hard you worked out you just couldn’t achieve the fat loss goals that you were after? You could run, lift weights, try to restrict your calories and while you did make some progress, some of the fat was still there. It can be difficult to continue such a rigorous exercise program if you feel that you’ve hit a plateau and just aren’t seeing any more results. This feeling of despair is compounded when you look around and see other people around you who are achieving incredible results that don’t appear to be working any harder than you are. The fact is they just might be doing something a little different than you are.

Let’s check out some of these fat loss secrets of the super lean and ripped:
Eat more often to speed up your metabolism- I know you’ve heard this before but unless you’ve adopted the practice of eating smaller meals at specific intervals throughout the day you’re probably not reaping the benefits that you could be. Eating smaller meals more often will allow your metabolism to constantly be working and therefore constantly burning calories. This practice can be tough because of our schedules and hectic daily life, but preparing the day’s meals the night before and putting them in plastic containers and carrying them in a cooler is a simple but effective way to help you add this fat loss secret to your daily routine.

Eat fat burning foods-obviously we’re not talking about Twinkies and ice cream here, but there are quite a few foods that actually encourage your body to burn fat and making sure to add these in your diet can speed you to your goals while providing your body the added nutrition and energy it needs. The list of these foods can be found online but just a few of them include eggs, beans, oatmeal, olive oil and lean meats.

Have a cup of Joe- Caffeine is a powerful lipolytic agent. I know, you were just about to say the same thing. What a lipolytic agent does is simple… it helps your body metabolize fat and use it as energy. While the research on using caffeine for fat loss is somewhat contradictory, the substance has been shown to increase performance when used before a work out and to speed up your metabolism as well. If you are a regular coffee drinker then 1 or 2 cups may have no effect at all that you use caffeine rarely been adding a safe dosage of 1 to 2 cups before a strenuous workout may help to boost your fat burning efforts.

Adopt the right fat loss mindset-let’s face it, achieving real results through exercise takes hard work. Some people just can’t put up with the stresses and rigors associated with hard consistent physical intense exercise. It is important to adopt the right mindset to keep with you throughout your fat loss process. A strong mental attitude will go a long way to keeping you on the road to fat loss success. Motivational books, tapes and even seminars can be great supplements when you’re on the road to a better body.

As I said before, people that are achieving different results than you are probably doing something different than you are. If you follow the tips of the consistent proactive plan, and best fat loss secrets can be your secrets to fat loss success.

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching and previous NPC judging experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

Some people who are looking to lose weight simply never achieve their goal but it’s not due to their lack of motivation or even the amount of work they do, they simply get lost in the process. What I mean is, there are so many directions that a fat loss program can take it can be simply overwhelming at times. Deciding where you are at any time during your program and making the changes necessary to increase your results, if not organized properly, can lead to failure. One of the best ways to stay on track and properly motivated is to set short-term goals.

Short-term goals allow you to achieve success in smaller bites which added up over time leads to large success. These smaller goals help you to see your progress more easily and can keep your motivational mindset at a very high level at all times. Let’s look at a couple of short-term goals you may use in your own fat loss program:

Eating Habit Goals

Most people are going to have to dramatically change the way they eat if they want to experience dramatic fat loss. Changing everything all at once can be difficult, however. A good idea is to set a few short-term goals to help you reach your target. These goals might include eating one less snack per week or maybe cutting your overall calories by 5% over the course of a month. These goals, when looked at individually, look small but on a day to day and week by week basis they can make a big difference in the fat loss results you achieve.

Exercise Program Goals-here is another area where people get overwhelmed. They want to jump in and begin an incredibly rigorous exercise program but the key is really starting slow. If you have been sedentary for a period of time then running 5 miles and hitting the gym for an hour is not a wise decision. Start slow, maybe walking for 10 to 20 minutes per day and build up the amount of work you do over time. It should only take you about a month or so to get your health and conditioning to a point where you might not be able to do a really intense workout, but if you jump in too fast, you run the risk getting hurt or simply getting burned out too early into your program.

Motivational Mindset Goals

It is important to adopt the right mindset when working to achieve significant fat loss goals. Because there are many books, CDs and DVDs on the market to help achieve these motivational mindsets, a short-term goal may be to review one of these products on a weekly or monthly basis. Feeding your mind with a constant supply of positive mental attitude type training will go a long way over time to support your fat loss goals.

Weight Loss Goals

Want to lose 10 pounds per week? This probably is not a good idea for the majority of people to try this strategy. Fat loss is best achieved in small amounts over time. If you expect to lose a tremendous amount of weight very quickly, first of all, you could get sick because this is not healthy, and second of all you could become discouraged because this is also very hard to do. Setting small goals such as half to one pound or so per week of weight loss are more easily achieved and are healthier for your body.

Working to achieve any goal can be much easier and more successful if broken down into small short-term goals like the ones mentioned above. Organize your routines on a daily and weekly basis and track your results so that you are continually making progress toward your goal. With the right mindset and the right achievable short-term goals, your result will be long term fat loss success.

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching and previous NPC judging experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

What if I told you there was a workout that you could do that would allow you to burn fat more quickly than just about any other exercise in existence, requires no special equipment at all, and it is extremely easy to do? Well, scratch the easy part, but I can help you with the other two. The exercise technique is called high intensity interval training, or HIIT for short and it is one of the most effective fat loss methods known to man.

HIIT is a simple principle to understand and it simply combines short bursts of high-intensity exercise coupled with longer duration low intensity exercise for a brief recovery period. Here is a quick scenario of how you may perform a high intensity interval training workout:

Start by warming up with 4 to 5 minutes of light jogging or doing jumping jacks to get your blood flowing. Then, begin jogging at a light to medium pace for about one minute. Now, break into your first low to moderate intensity jog, then sprint for about 30 seconds and without stopping simply slow down to the jogging pace you were at before. You have now just completed a 90 second higher-intensity interval training session. To complete an entire workout, simply continue doing those intervals 5 to 10 more times and peaking a little higher in intensity with each rep of the workout. More advanced trainers will work up to as many as 8 to 10 interval sessions but either way the entire workout will last no more than about 25 to 30 minutes.

For those of us that are used to spending an hour or more doing grueling cardio workouts, the short duration HIIT sessions may seem like we’re not doing enough work to truly reach the fat loss goals that were after. The fact of the matter is, high-intensity interval training is actually proven more effective than the longer paced workouts because of the amount of work you are performing in that small period of time. It has been shown in clinical studies that after performing high-intensity interval training, your body will continue to burn fat at a rate of about nine times more over the hours following the workout than you would had you just spent an hour on the treadmill at a medium pace. Your body will continue to stay in this fat burning state much longer than with regular exercise thereby increasing the fat loss benefit you receive from a HIIT session.

In addition to the calories and fat that can be burned with high intensity interval training, one of the other positive effects of the exercise is in the building of fast twitch muscle fibers thereby increasing your overall muscle mass. Long-duration aerobic exercise, such as marathon running, will actually work to diminish the amount of muscle that you have. Marathon runners are usually skinny, but if you want to maintain or actually build muscle like a track and field sprinter with your cardio workouts, then high-intensity interval training may be the answer you are looking for.

The perfect combination of shorter duration workouts that not only burn fat but help to maintain and build muscle mass make high-intensity interval training and extremely effective fat burning workout to add to your regimen.

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.