3 Fat loss mistakes you may be making

Now these 3 fallacies are so ridiculous that I cannot believe that people still believe them. However they have been so ingrained into the minds of the general public by gyms/dieting clubs and so forth that when we think about losing weight or becoming healthy we instantly revert to eating less food and going for a run..

Simple

But not very effective!

Let's see if we can try and break these poor habits

1. Eating Fat makes you Fat

This is rubbish... yes some fats are dangerous for you (hydrogenated/trans fats), but even still won't make you fat.

The body 'fat' you are storing is actually sugar, well glycogen to be more precise. And that is created by the over consumption of carbohydrates.

The other thing is that Fat's are required in huge abundance within the body, for things such as lean muscle building, nervous system signalling & metabolism improvements to name just a few. So remove fats from your diet, and look forward to being slow, weak and fat!

2. Calories In vs Calories Out

This links in well with the first point, as both fallacies kind of sprang from the eat less calories theory which so many people use within weight loss and health improvement.

Now where there may be an element of truth to eating less, moving more, it is just too much of an over simplification to really work. One of the major reasons why it doesn't work is because it doesn't take it account the effects that certain food groups have on the body. Proteins (meat/fish) and Carbohydrates (bread/pasta) have completely different effects on the hormones insulin and glucagon which are both highly involved in the storing of fat in the body. Carbohydrates promote the over production of both the hormones whilst proteins do not. Produce more of the hormone and you will store more fat!

The other really bad problem with this approach is that it encourages people to eat & drink nutritionally empty meals just because they are low calorie... ready meals from the supermarkets are engineered to be low calorie to promote sales, but they contain absolute rubbish. The same goes for products like diet sodas which are calorie FREE, meaning you can drink as many of them as you like. If you were to do that I can guarantee that the 'hidden sweeteners' within them will make you fat very quickly!

3. Cardio is the best way to lose body fat

Now we all can see the evidence for this upon every gym floor in the land. However go into any personal training studio or private gym and you will find non!

Why?

Because in the industry we understand what creates not only the biggest initial impact on the body, but also the biggest post effect. What that basically means is that using weights circuits instead of spending an hour on the treadmill will promote a larger level of exertion, promote the development of lean muscle, increase the metabolism higher & create a larger level of post workout oxygen consumption, meaning that even when you leave the gym your body is still requiring more energy to help repair and build muscle, that energy comes from stored body fat.

The other thing is that you can get a better workout in half the time using weights than doing cardio. So you can spend less time in the gym and get better gains!