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In a previous post How To Ski 90 km In Just One Day I listed weight loss as one of the tasks to do before the race. I was weighing 104 kg at that time and now I’m at 99 kg, after one month. The weight loss didn’t happen accidentally, there were three things I did differently in January: I started exercising 3-4 times a week, I ate small portions during the day (I even started eating breakfast!) and I only ate sweets on weekends. After losing 5 kg I felt good!

Two weeks ago, I was googling for losing weight and I came across Tom Venuto’s site called BurnTheFat. I signed up for the free report called Big Fat Lies just to get more information about losing weight. Although I think I knew a thing or two about exercising, this report presented me something I hadn’t thought about - at least enough…

Lose Fat, Not Weight

This may sound obvious, but the key is to lose fat, not weight. Tom points out many times how the dieting industry is marketing weight loss, but what people should be concerned about is the amount of fat they’re carrying on their waist.

When you are losing weight by dieting, you’re losing muscles and body fluids.

Weight loss by dieting (= starving) seems to be effective if you just look at the reading your scale is giving. But if we look dieting from an exercising point of view (there’s 90 km to ski ) dieting is not even close to be thought as a good solution.

• The muscles go first. When our body doesn’t get enough fuel, it starts saving energy by cutting out the unnecessary energy eaters. Unfortunately muscles are in the ‘unnecessary’ category.
• Human body is 70 % water. Its easy to lose fluids with moderate exercising and if you don’t fill up your reserves, you lose weight. But if you’re body dries up, it can cause severe damages during an extreme sports activity.
• Recovering slows down or stops. If the muscles don’t get the energy they need after exercising, the recovery stops and the exercise has a negative effect. Instead of gaining more strength you’re losing it, since your body takes the needed energy from other muscles.

When taken the fact that muscles weigh more than muscle, its easy to lose weight by dieting but the results are not the preferred ones. So instead of losing weight we need to be losing fat.

Now how do you lose fat?

The Simple Tricks To Lose Fat

There are two simple tricks to lose fat. First, you need to do cardio and weight training. Second, you need to keep eating, not starving yourself. Thats all The beauty in these tricks are that

• They work for everybody.
• They’re the natural ways of losing fat.
• They produce results that will last longer.

The simple trick list doesn’t include magic pills you see on TV. That’s what the ‘weight loss’ industry is selling, because people like to have easy solutions and what could be easier than lying on the sofa, taking a pill every now and then?

But hey, don’t take my word for it, listen to the expert. There are lots of myths and mis-information going around in the weight loss market. Tom is the man to tackle each of these ‘ducks’. Go get the free Big Fat Lies report from his site.

I can say that the report cleared my head and now I’m a fat loser, not a weight loser

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