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"Solving The Mystery of Fat Loss"

By Jimmy Smith

It's that time again

Around this time of year everyone seems to get antsy. The warm weather is here and the hot weather is right around the corner and what does that mean? Fewer clothes, more skin and all eyes on you, doesn't sound like such a bad thing right? It wouldn't be if you had spent all winter dieting and training right so that when the time came you can wear your bathing suit proudly. Unfortunately, you spent your winter eating away on ice cream, pizza and all the other wonderful junk food around. What to do, what to do?

Fat loss is easy really; as a matter of fact it all comes down to one thing. Our body is made up of various hormones that control weight gain and weight loss. So knowing that our hormones dictate our body composition, it is easy to see that they are reason why we look the way we do. The main hormone is insulin, which controls every other hormone in our body. Every time we put something in our mouths, we give ourselves a shot of insulin, how big or small the shot is depends on what we're eating. Now we can see the connection between eating "good" food and eating "bad" food, carbohydrates will have the biggest effect. Carbs with fat will have a bigger effect on insulin levels then will carbs with protein.

If we eat foods like bagels, donuts, pizza, pasta and any other bad food we can think of our insulin levels will fluctuate throughout the day. Think of how you feel about an hour after lunch, this is your blood sugar dropping. Over time this causes your body to gain fat since we need to keep producing more and more insulin when we eat.

How can we control our insulin and drop body fat? Here are the answers

- Eliminate trans/saturated fats in our diet
- Increase Omega-3 fish oil intake
- Decrease our simple carbohydrate intake
- Vary our consumption of complex carbohydrates
- Increase our intake of vegetables
- Increase sleep
- Decrease stress
- Decrease sugar

I highly recommend everyone picking up a copy of Dr.John Berardi's Precision Nutrition. This is an excellent resource that guides everyone through the difficult steps of setting up proper nutrition meals.

About the Author:

Jimmy Smith, CSCS is a fat loss expert who is featured in Maximum Fitness magazine as well as numerous online websites. For more information and to sign up for a FREE newsletter please visit www.jimmysmithtraining.com