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Some foods pack on the fat and some foods actually help you lose fat. Fat loss foods also contribute to good health, support your immune system, give you more energy to get through your day, and help you look and feel younger.

The foods that help you lose fat are easy to digest, which in turn strengthens and speeds up your metabolism. As your metabolism gets stronger your body is better able to shed stored fat.

The best foods are the obvious – fresh fruits and vegetables. These foods not only support your digestion, but can help strengthen it over time. This can in turn eliminate the need for expensive digestive enzymes.

Eat fresh fruits in the morning when your body is naturally cleansing itself. This cleansing process involves your liver eliminating toxins and metabolizing fats. When this function is supported, your liver gets more fat burning efficiency.

Assist this fat burning process with a squeeze of lemon or lime juice in your water. This helps clear waste as it is released from the fat cells. Be sure to drink six to eight glasses of water throughout the day.

To be sure you get in a sufficient amount of fat burning veggies, start your noon and evening meals with a fresh, green salad. Use a dressing made of olive oil and apple cider vinegar for more fat loss effectiveness.

The raw vegetables in this salad will help strengthen your digestion over time. A stronger digestions leads to a higher metabolism, which burns fat quicker.

Add two servings of fresh, lightly steamed vegetables to these meals, also. These are easy to digest allowing more enzymes so your body can more efficiently digest any protein eaten in your meals. Having these extra servings of veggies ensures you are getting the nutrition your body and digestive processes need.

Be sure to eat lean, fresh, organic proteins throughout your day. If you don’t want to take time to calculate how much you need in grams, follow the simple palm rule; eat a protein portion that is about the size of your palm.

Lean proteins help your body build muscle which burns more calories. They contribute to the lean, cut look of fitness experts, which is why many fat loss routines include eating them anywhere from three to five times per day, depending upon your weight.

Good proteins to choose from include lean, organic beef, organic poultry, free range, organic eggs, fresh halibut, tuna, salmon, legumes and every kind of sprout. But there is a fat loss food that is not only a source of protein, but has other enhanced fat loss and health benefits.

Lean, organic beef is an excellent fat loss food. Organic is the key, however. Organic beef contains Omega 3’s, Vitamin E and CLA, which is not available in non-organic meats.

These three components protect your body from various cancers, free radicals which can cause premature aging, reduce abdominal fat, and reduces the incidence of diseases including heart disease and diabetes.

You can find organic beef, along with your organic vegetables and fruits, at your local health food market. The price may be higher, but keep in mind the portion you should be eating.

Proteins for fat loss can easily turn into proteins that pack on pounds when you eat too much of it. In fact, this is one of the main reasons for weight gain – eating too much protein. So keep your portions controlled.

One more fat loss food is yogurt. Yogurt adds good bacteria to your intestinal tract. This strengthens digestion which, as we now know, speeds metabolism. Yogurt is also an excellent source of protein which can be used as a low calorie, healthy protein snack in between meals. Be sure to get yogurt that doesn’t contain artificial ingredients and sugar including high fructose corn syrup.

Don’t forget to avoid junk foods, sodas and other sugary treats. These foods add fat, trigger cravings and make your fat loss efforts void.

Try making as many meals with fat loss foods as you can. Focus on these foods as the main portion of your diet and fat loss will come easier and stay more permanently.

Q:There are about 6 million fat loss products out on the market right now.  What sets Warp Speed Fat Loss apart from the rest of them?

Mike:  Warp Speed Fat Loss is different from a lot of the other fat loss stuff out there today (even stuff that Alwyn and I have previously made) for a couple big reasons. The most important one that Alwyn and I focused on while building and tweaking this program is that we wanted the diet and exercise to work together in a synergic fashion and not as two separate components. So the Warp Speed Fat loss diet is specifically set up to work with the Warp Speed Training program – calorie manipulation, carbohydrate cycling, etc is all in tune with the program.

The second big difference with Warp Speed Fat Loss is that we tell you EXACTLY what to do. There is no wiggle room. I think a lot of times people don’t give specific instructions because they don’t have 100% confidence that their system works. We have tested and tweaked this enough to know that it works. So in the program we tell you exactly what to eat every single day and exactly what to do for training. It is black and white. Follow this exactly and lose a bunch of weight fast. It is pretty cool.

Q: You make some bold claims about how quickly people can drop body fat with a program like this – but the results thus far seem very promising.  Can you please fill our readers in on them a bit?

Mike: You are correct. We do make bold claims but we didn’t make them up. People went on our program and started losing 15-20lbs in 28 days. So we decided to start saying “Hey – do this and lose 15-20lbs in 28 days”. Here are some examples…we had two guys, Bill Hartman and Mike Robertson, that both used the program with phenomenal results(actually I don’t believe they used Alwyn’s training programs but they used the diet). Bill lost 17lbs in just over 3 weeks; he wanted to lose 10lbs. Mike lost 12lbs in 2 weeks (I emailed him back and called him a liar – but it turned out to be true).

One of the best email’s I’ve gotten is from Paula Gawlas in Scottsdale, AZ this is what she said “Your program rocks!  I’ve exceeded my goals!  I am so happy because whereas before every morning I would have to search for some pair of “elastic” some things to wear, now I know I can wear anything in my closet!  (And there’s a lot in my closet, so I can go weeks without doing laundry now!).

I work out at an LA Fitness here in Scottsdale and a girl was watching me work out and she questioned me about my program.  Thought it was some sort of national challenge!  I told here about you guys–I kind of hate saying “fat loss” at this point because I don’t have any more fat to lose, but I just love the total body workouts!

So thank you, thank you.

Paula”

So yes we do make bold claims but they are based on results people have actually gotten. Not everyone will lose 20lbs. In fact I would say that the average weight loss reported back to me is 12-15lbs (which still is pretty good!).

About the Author/More Info:
Warp Speed Fat Loss is a complete 28 day diet and training system crafted to help you lose 10,15, or 20lbs of body fat in just 28 day. To start losing weight fast visit Warp Speed Fat Loss. Mike Roussell is a nutrition doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania. Mike’s writings can be found in magazines such as Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Testosterone Nation. Mike specializes in fat loss nutrition and diets for busy men and women who need to lose weight fast without it interfering with their lives. Warp Speed Fat Loss is a complete Done-for-You A-Z Fat Loss Blueprint that gives you exactly everything you need to eat to lose weight in record time.

Health is the wealth. Due to development in the field of science, we have simplified our day-to-day work with the help of machines. The victim here is our health. Energy spent is less as we can do strenuous tasks by just pressing the button. But we never tried to reduce the intake. This results in excess energy intake. This excess energy is stored in the body in the form of fat. Hence our weight increases so also the susceptibility to various life threatening ailments. If you want remain healthy and live longer fat loss [weight loss] is the only remedy.

Our body is composed of water, muscle, bone and other organs. Besides this fat is the other important component of the body. The body fat can be classified as fat that is essential and fat that is for storage. Essential fat as the name suggests is most important component of the body and these fats can be seen in muscles, central nervous system, bone marrow and other organs like liver and kidney.

The excess energy intake is converted in to fat and stored in the body as storage fat. Storage fats can be seen under the skin, in the muscle and in specific areas of the body. It is not bad to have some quantity of storage fat in the body. The storage fat functions like insulator [conserves the body temperature], and serves as a source of energy at the time of the poor intake. We must lose this excess fat. This kind of fat loss is must for the healthy normal functioning of the body as we discussed already. While trying for fat loss we should keep in mind that neither too much fat nor too little fat is healthy.

Many people who want to reduce their weight may think why should we know about the body fat? And why should we calculate the body fat? The reason for measuring the body fat is that it is the realistic measurement of fitness of our body. Fat loss is nothing but weight loss. Body mass index is an indicator of the health and fitness of the body. The big disadvantage of the body mass index is that it may conclude that you are overweight. But your body fat may be normal. When the body fat is normal, your health is perfect though you are overweight. Hence body fat calculation is the best method to assess your fitness.

Like the quantity of the fat, the distribution of the fat is also important factor in determining the fitness of the body. Extra fat stored in the hip region is more harm full than the fat stored in buttocks and thighs. Hence fat loss from the hip region is highly preferable. In most cases if the person loses weight by following a perfect, safe, risk free weight loss or fat loss program, he will lose only body fat not the muscle. At times along with fat loss, some quantity of the muscle also will be lost. However the fat loss will be much more than the muscle loss, which is highly desirable. Some people due urgency and ignorance may follow bad diet and wrong diet pills to reduce weight. Those people will be losing body water instead of body fat. As the result there will not be any fat loss, which is of no use as far as the health and fitness of the person concerned.

Did you know that fat loss does not have to be an enormous struggle? If you have had trouble with this in the past then this statement may seem a little extreme, but you must understand that it is true.

This article will outline three common fat loss mistakes with diet and exercise. Please pay attention to the whole article because you should avoid these common fat loss mistakes at all cost!

There is so much information out there that it is time to set the record straight about 5 of the most common mistakes that so many people make when trying to achieve effective and long lasting fat loss.

Mistake #1: Not keeping a food log

Permanent fat loss without keeping an accurate food log is next to impossible. If you were trying to save money, wouldn’t you want to keep a record of where you were spending the most?

The same concept applies to keeping a food log. It is absolutely amazing how much we sometimes underestimate how much food we eat. Fat loss occurs when we consume less calories then we currently do. It really all comes down to that!

By having a record of what foods you are eating and what time you are eating them you are laying a roadmap that you can consistently tweak and adjust until you reach your goal!

If you are trying to lose fat and are not currently keeping a food log, go buy one online or get a notebook you can use as soon as possible. But beware, you may have to spend extra money on new clothes very soon if you do.

Mistake #2: Focusing too much on slow cardio

Did you know that slow cardio can be one of the worst ways to achieve long lasting fat loss? This may seem very counterintuitive but bear with me.

Slow cardio can be effective for burning calories and can work well in the short term. It is in fact very good for your cardiovascular system and for preventive measures. For fat loss, the same principles do not necessarily hold true.

What happens is that when you do the same cardio workout (30-60 minutes) at a slow pace, your body adapts very quickly. If you go too slowly, you will not burn significant calories or even break a sweat. You see, once your body adapts, it becomes more efficient at doing the same workout. Once this happens, you burn fewer calories with each repeated workout.

If you went outside to run a mile right now, it might feel pretty difficult. But if you ran a mile 5 times a week for 2 months, it would get a lot easier. What happens is the same workout becomes less and less of a challenge the more you do it. As a result, you burn less calories due to the fact that the same workout is not as challenging as it once was. For fat loss, this is one of the worst ruts to fall into.

Trying to lose fat with doing the same cardio workout over and over is sure to lead to a plateau and almost all your results will come to a screeching halt.

The solution is to use a different method of cardio called interval training. It is faster, more effective, and burns lots more fat calories than slow cardio.

Mistake #3: Avoiding strength training

Fat loss that is permanent largely depends on your body composition and your diet. One of the best ways to do this is to increase muscle mass!

The more lean muscle mass you have, the more calories you will burn while exercising and at rest. It has been said that every pound of additional muscle burns approximately 60 more calories per day.

If you gained just 3 pounds of lean muscle mass, that would come out to an extra 1260 calories per week! Combine this with reducing your daily calories by 300 and you are losing approximately 1 pound per week!

Many people think that strength training will not help their fat loss efforts because of the myth that is makes you “big and bulky.” This belief is a huge mistake! Unless you are eating and training specifically for huge muscles you will have nothing to worry about. If you are training for fat loss you are training to make your body smaller. It simply cannot respond by getting bigger.

Conclusion

These are just a few of the biggest fat loss mistakes that so many people make. That being said, fat loss does not have to be a struggle. You just need to take in less calories and burn more. Making the right food choices and exercising the right way will help you lose fat faster and easier than ever before!

See if you agree with the following statement. Fat loss and weight loss are essentially the same thing, interchangeable.

If, like many people, you said yes, you guessed wrong. Fat loss and weight loss are not the same thing at all. In fact, they are not even close.

If you browse the diet book section of your local bookstore, or surf the Web, you will see that most books and diet programs contain the words weight loss in their title or subtitle. Most diet programs are about weight loss, which is the incorrect approach to this whole area. As a trainer and author specializing in healthy fat loss and fitness, I recommend you only concern yourself with taking off excess fat.

Here is why. Weight is good, not bad; you do not want to lose weight, and most importantly for your health, you do not want to lose muscle. Our weight is made up of tissue, muscle, bone, blood, fat, water, and the rest of our physical body. Muscle, like every other component of our physical make-up, is most important. And fat is also a necessary, vital part of our physical make-up.

It is excess body fat that is the big problem. Having excess body fat, being fat, increases your risk of heart attack, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and many other serious diseases. And perhaps most serious of all, if you can get more serious than a heart attack or a stroke, is that excess body fat is being linked to many more types of cancers than previously known.

Excess fat is bad news and that is what I urge you to focus on, fat loss. The following is so important it bears repeating: you do not want to lose weight. That is just a convenient way of avoiding the word fat. Fat has ugliness attached to it. No one likes to be called fat or think of themselves as fat, so we say overweight, portly, rotund, chubby and use other phrases like take off pounds, lose weight, or take off inches.

We can play word games, deny it and dance all around the fact that we are fat and we have to lose fat. But it is more effective and realistic to just face up to the job at hand, which is to lose excess fat. And in fact, once they take 100 percent responsibility for doing just that, many people become highly motivated and do the job more quickly and easily.

In my many years working in fat loss and fitness, I have learned what I believe is the best way to take off excess fat fast, healthfully and permanently. And that is through adopting a balanced, plant-based diet of whole, fresh, natural foods, and doing daily exercise.

The type of program I recommend is simple and ferociously effective. It does not include diet foods made with reduced fat. No low carb, no carb nonsense. No fat blaster pills. No processed, packaged foods delivered to your door. No meal replacement shakes or herbal remedies that melt fat away. I strongly urge my clients and readers to stay away from all these bogus and often dangerous weight loss approaches. Unfortunately, they are unending and many people are eager to buy into magic bullets or shortcut ways for losing fat.

It is legitimate to ask why is a balanced, plant-based diet of whole, natural foods so effective at losing fat. The answer is simple and irrefutable: there is no more effective way to lose fat permanently than to cut out all the fat that comes with eating animals and animal food products like dairy and eggs. And permanently eliminating all refined, processed and fast foods from your diet. These are loaded with sugar, salt and added fats, including hydrogenated fats/oil, one of the worst substances you can put in your body. Put even more simply, we are what we eat.

That is the difference between fat loss and weight loss, and the difference between the approach I recommend and all the books and programs touting weight loss.

If you are interested in permanently, healthfully losing all the excess fat you want to lose, I urge you to adopt a balanced, plant-based diet of whole, fresh, natural foods, without meat, poultry, fish, dairy products or eggs.

When you do this, along with getting daily exercise, you will really start to see the excess fat on your body melt away. Healthfully and permanently.