Why don’t many people burn fat?

Every day we are told that “if you want to lose weight, you have to go on a diet, exercise more, etc.” The truth is that those old methods have some truth. However, they don’t get you very far. It’s because we all buy into a half-truth method of burning fat and losing weight.

Switching from “junk food diet” to “plant-based salad diet”

I have to say that this is all too common. If you want to lose weight, the first thing you think about is to start eating salads, right? wrong.

When someone suddenly switches to a salad diet, they gain water weight instead of losing weight. Because they don’t have the right enzymes to digest the soluble fiber in leafy vegetables that absorbs water.

It takes time for a person to develop the proper enzymes to digest a salad. Instead of switching to a diet of salads, try starting with a fruit and vegetable smoothie with healthy fats from bananas, coconut, flaxseeds, and avocados, for example.

Healthy fats are there to stop hunger and cravings.

Eating large breakfast meals in the morning

Eating a big breakfast in the morning is probably not the best idea if you’re trying to burn body fat and lose weight. First of all, large meals tend to slow down your metabolism a bit. Keep doing it every day and it becomes a habit. Instead, try reducing the size of your breakfast meal or start with breakfast shakes. Think light meals.

Exercising too much in one day

Another common mistake people make is exercising too much in one day at the gym. They think that if they train 3 hours in the gym one day and rest the next two days, they will lose weight. It’s not about the number of hours you spend exercising, it’s about how many days you consistently train.

Try to exercise for an hour every day consistently and see how it will give you results.

High Interval Training

In other words, high intensity interval training. This type of training is usually done on an interval timer. Like exercising non-stop for the first minute and then resting for the next minute and resting after that and so on.

This tends to give people a better chance of losing weight. Because interval training speeds up the metabolism to burn more fat in a rest mode. You can also increase the intensity of the exercise by adding more repetitions to a set or by adding more sets to the interval timer.

Weightlifting Strength Training

Weight lifting or weight training is a great way to increase fat burning in certain places in your muscles. This is a proven method to burn body fat. I recommend it.

Stress and lack of sleep

Being under a high level of stress can affect your ability to lose weight. Because often lack of sleep follows stress. There are two hormones in your body called leptin and grehlin.

leptin controls appetite, metabolism, the ability to burn fat.

Grehlin tells you when to eat, when to stop burning fat, etc.

When more grehlin is produced in your body, you want to eat more and more. When leptin is low due to lack of sleep, ghrelin increases. To produce more leptin you need more sleep.

Too many healthy fats in a diet

When someone eats too many foods high in healthy fats. Like avocados, bananas, nuts, olive oil, salmon, coconut, etc. adds calories and a ton. In general, it’s best to keep healthy fats to a minimum. Enough to keep you full until your next good meal.

Other diets on how to burn fat

There are lots and lots of different fat burning tips. Like intermittent fasting, detox diets, supplements, pills, garcinia cambogia, etc.

The reason these diets claim to work is for one thing. The ability to keep you full until your next meal while still being able to exercise and burn body fat.

comfort food habits

Now, who doesn’t love a bowl of ice cream at night? I know… But eating our favorite comfort foods too often can affect our ability to lose weight, because the chemicals in our cakes, cookies, ice cream, etc. adding toxins to our body and preventing our liver from absorbing vitamins and nutrients from vegetables and fruits when we eat healthily. That being said, in order to lose weight, you need to ditch these comfort foods. This is why I always recommend shake diets, because they are full of vitamins, nutrients and natural sugars instead of artificial sugars.

Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs

If you have bad habits of taking alcohol, tobacco and drugs, that prevents you from losing weight at all. Because of the toxins in the drugs. Drinking alcohol also prevents you from losing weight.