Why do many people not 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 there is some truth to those old methods. However, they don’t get you very far. It’s because we all bought a half-truth method to burn fat and lose weight.

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

I have to say 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 switches to a salad diet suddenly, they gain water weight instead of losing weight. Because they don’t have the proper 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 salad diet, try starting with a fruit and vegetable smoothie with healthy fats from bananas, coconut, flaxseed, and avocados, for example.

Healthy fats are there to stop hunger and cravings.

Eat big 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 the metabolism a bit. Keep doing it every day and it becomes a habit. Instead, try cutting down on the size of your breakfast meal or start with breakfast smoothies. 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, but how many days you consistently train.

Try to exercise for an hour every day consistently and see how it works for you.

high interval workouts

In other words, high intensity interval training. This type of training is usually done with an interval timer. Like exercising non-stop the first minute and then resting 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 resting mode. You can also increase the intensity of the exercise by adding more repetitions in 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 sleep deprivation often follows stress. There are two hormones in your body called leptin and grehlin.

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

Grehlin it 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 to sleep more.

Too many healthy fats in a diet

When someone eats too many foods that are 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 tips for burning fat. 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. add toxins to our body and prevent our liver from absorbing vitamins and nutrients from vegetables and fruits when we eat healthy. That said, to lose weight, you need to get rid of 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 drugs. Drinking alcohol also prevents you from losing weight.