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Losing fat is really a simple process. Along with a program of proper diet and exercise, Cytolean(tm) makes it possible for you to acheive your fat loss goals. Using a unique patent pending thermogenic formula, this amazing product promises to burn fat, reduce appetite, increase energy levels and induce a unique euphoric "feel good" effect that is sure to take the industry by storm. The following is a list of tips that break down the basics of burning fat. Use this is a guideline for your own program.
1. Eat 5 - 6 Small Meals Per Day
 The traditional three meals a day simply won't do it for burning fat. Every time you eat, your metabolism kicks in to start burning what you've eaten and you begin to break it down instantly, taking everything it has to offer, from energy to nutritional content.
While eating only three meals a day, your metabolism has time between meals to slow down. This is not very efficient for burning fat. Your goal here is to keep your metabolism going and burning as much fat as possible. This is done by spacing your food out to 5 or 6 smaller meals a day, or by eating approximately every 2.5 - 3 hours. This is not to say eat like a horse 5 times a day, it means simply, to have your three meals, but to eat something small and extra in between. Even eating 4 small meals a day (1 every 3 hours) can make a significant difference over eating only 3 meals!
The advantage of this is two fold. First, it keeps your metabolism going, and second it will allow you to be less hungry during your next meal, in turn causing you to desire less food. Often times it is not practical to prepare yourself a meal in the mid-morning or in between your regular meals at any time.
 2. Drink Water
The importance of drinking water is often overlooked. Your body is 70 percent water, and so it should be treated that way. Give it what it needs. Water is essential when dieting or losing weight. It helps you properly utilize all of your nutrients that you take in through food, which is essential when dieting. You need every nutrient that you take in or what's the sense of eating?
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It will help you transport the nutrients efficiently into your cells and determine how your cells use them. You need them to keep your health and to keep putting on quality muscle.
At the same time, it will help you efficiently eliminate wastes while flushing all toxins out of your body to make you even healthier. Also, it will help make your skin more elastic like so that while your putting on quality mass, you can avoid getting stretch marks all together. It will improve your complexion. Also, water cushions joints. This is important because while losing body fat, you will also lose some of the fat cushion that helps protect your joints. Drinking plenty of water will help you avoid injury. Lastly, drinking generous amounts of water all day will condition your body to expel excess water from under the skin, giving you a slimmer, less bloated appearance.
3. Eating Before Bed
Eating before bed is not a wise decision. While you are sleeping, your metabolism slows down. It is for this reason and this reason only that you do not want to eat within 3 hours of going to bed. The food that you eat will possibly be stored as fat because your body will not be able to burn it off completely. Avoid it whenever you can and you won't regret it!
4. High Protein
 Keeping your metabolism going and burning fat efficiently while retaining as much muscle as possible is dependent on taking in a high amount of protein. Your body will burn carbohydrates first, because this is your main energy source.
Once it runs out of carbohydrates, it will begin to use your fat as fuel. You don't want your body dipping into your hard-earned muscle to use as energy. It is for this reason that it is of prime importance that you eat as much protein as possible while losing the weight. It will keep your metabolism moving! A good rule of thumb would be to consume
5. Lower Your Carbs
Without lowering your carbohydrates, your fat loss will be minimal at best. Lowering your carbohydrates will keep your body burning mostly fat all the time. Since your body burns carbohydrates first, then fat, it will have no carbohydrates to burn and begin burning fat immediately. The trick with carbohydrates is that you want to consume more of your day's carbs earlier in the day (primarily breakfast) and taper them off as the day wears on. When eating breakfast, you want a combination of protein AND carbohydrates to give your body a jump-start for the day. Also, this will supply you with enough energy to get through most of the day.
6. Fats
The foods you eat should be relatively low in fats as foods with higher amounts of fat can become a limiting factor when trying to lose weight. People eating low fat diets may choose to add a few tablespoons of essential fatty acids to their diet (flax, fish oil, evening primrose oil, hemp oil, etc.) in order to remain healthy and aid in proper digestion.
 7. Take A Multi-Vitamin
When dieting, taking a multi-vitamin will keep you strong and healthy. Since you are changing your eating habits in one way or another while dieting, you want to make sure you are getting in a good amount of your essential vitamins and minerals.
8. Cardiovascular and
Weight Training
 Cardiovascular exercise is perhaps one of the most important keys to losing weight. Your diet could be the best in the world, but it will never reach it's fullest potential without cardio.
For best results, there a few key rules to remember that when applied, will keep your cardiovascular exercise program burning fat for you for the long hall. Remember that cardio’ most definitely works for dropping body fat, but the same routine week in and week out will begin to have less impact on body fat as your body gets used to a certain routine. The three words to remember, in succession, for combating this are INTENSITY, DURATION, and FREQUENCY. Let’s say you are a beginner. First choose an amount of time that you wish to perform cardiovascular exercise 3 times per week –let’s say 20 minutes to start (though this can certainly vary). As an easy guide, your proper INTENSITY level can be estimated as the pace of exercise at which it becomes moderately difficult to carry on a normal conversation while performing it.* This may take a week or two before you are comfortable with this pace. Once comfortable with a good intensity level and after a few weeks or as much as a month of doing it, you are ready increase the DURATION of each exercise session. An increase of 5 (or sometimes 10) minutes is typical. This will again stimulate and heighten the fat burning process and can remain effective for weeks. The final phase in keeping the fat burning process going strong is to increase the FREQUENCY of cardiovascular exercise sessions per week (from 3 session to 4). This time tested procedure, when executed, will make a tremendous difference in not only your pants size, but the overall way you look and feel as well. For those who continue to perform cardio’ as part of their lifestyle (and we hope you do), this process can be repeated until reaching 5 or 6 sessions a week for 45-60 minutes per session.
Many individuals will also choose to vary the type of exercise or type of cardio equipment they use. There are many ways to get the job done, such as jogging, swimming, bike riding, rowing, spinning, taking aerobics classes, boxing, or by using a piece of equipment such as a treadmill, stationary bike, stairclimber, elliptical machine, rowing machine or whatever else can consistently get your heart pumping.
Note: For those with difficulty finding time to do cardio, even 20 minutes per session is enough to put your body in a cardiovascular state and help to begin burning fat.
The best time to do your cardio session is when you first wake up in the morning, before you eat anything. The reason for this is because when you wake up, your glycogen stores are low, and thus can be depleted quickly so that your body will have no choice but to use its fat stores as energy rather than the extra calories aquired from an early meal.
*For those who want to more precisely reach their proper INTENSITY level while exercising, this is for you. While doing your cardio, you want to reach a target heart rate of 65% (most efficient fat burning zone) of your maximum heart rate. To determine this, subtract your age from 220 and multiply it by 0.65. This is how many beats per minute that you want your heart pumping out while you exercise for the whole session. This is not as complicated as it sounds. Here is an example. If you are 21 years old, then you would subtract 21 from 220. The difference is 199. Now multiply this number by 0.65. The answer would come to 129.35, rounded off to 129. This is the ideal number of beats per minute that you want when doing your cardio. That means you want your heart to be beating 129 beats every minute during your exercise session.
This is the ideal fat burning zone while you do your cardio. You can measure it by stopping every now and then for a short 10 seconds only and count how many beats during those ten seconds by taking your pulse (use a stop watch). Then continue your cardio. Eventually you will be able to tell where you are at as far as beats per minute go.
It is also important to begin a proper weight training program. This will also help you burn more body fat and increase muscle mass. While weight training only moderately increases heart rate, it increases lean mass which in turn increases your metabolism into burning fat. Even if you are not looking to build muscle like a bodybuilder, a circuit training program of three to four times a week can give you tremendous benefits in strength and increased metabolism. Consult your physician before beginning any weight training activity.
Extra Keys
- To prevent yourself from over eating and eating what you don't really need, wait 15 minutes after eating to see if you really want a second serving. Your body takes approximately 15 minutes to know that it's full.
- Get plenty of sleep. Sleep will provide you with energy the next day, which is vital while restricting your carbohydrates. Make sure to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night. Try for 10 especially if you're a teenager.
- Don't be afraid to eat plenty of fruits or vegetables while trying to lose weight. Just make sure that you are NOT ingesting large amounts of foods with high amounts of starchy carbs such as potatoes, rice, pasta, and other products containing processed flours. But certainly don't hesitate to have an apple or an orange with breakfast, or some green beans with dinner.
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