5 Weight Loss/ Fat Burning Tips

1.Decrease the amount of non-nourishing food
Get rid of anything in your diet that is non-nourishing such as mayonnaise and other condiments, salt (excessive sodium combined with fat can cause your body to retain water which in turn causes weight gain and body fat), vinegar, white flour products, and canned foods. Begin by cutting back on the portions and eliminating all together those that you can. Realize that when you do eat them, they have no nutritional value and will hinder your weight loss goals.

2.Water
Water is your life! Keep your water levels maintained. Water is also used in ridding the body of waste. By having a cleaner body internally, digestion improves, energy levels increase and fat loss can continue.

3.Perform cardio, but in intervals!
Twice a week you should do cardio training in intervals. Interval training is actually a mixture of high-intensity and a more moderate workout intensity within the same training session. Research has shown that people who perform interval training, plus two days of lower intensity cardio training, lose twice as much weight as those who perform cardio at a sustained moderate intensity.

Now, how should you incorporate the interval training into your workout? Perform one minute of walking (3.8 mph to 4.1 mph), then alternate that with a minute of sprinting (approx. 6.5 mph to 9.0 mph) for five to ten minutes. What happens is that your body will be working harder and thus be forced to burn more fat or calories. Set up a total of 25 minutes of workout. 3 days of interval traning and 2 days lower intensity cardio only.

4. Build Muscle, Burn Fat!

To prevent body fat from building up you also need to exercise. You must be active to change your bodies metabolism to burn fat instead of storing it. Fat burning exercises will speed up your metabolism. With a reduction in calories, and this type of exercise, you will reduce body fat.

5. Green is the only way to go!

Let green tea be Your favorite drink. Green tea which originally comes from Japan, has been very popular in the western part of the world the recent years. The reason for this is it has lots of health and weight loss benefits caused by increased fat burning. Although we don't fully know the mechanisms behind it's ability to burn fat, it is proven that green tea increases the amount of calories the body burns. In addition to small amounts of caffeine, it also contains a compound called EGCG. Most scientists believe that this is what causes the increased fat or calorie burning. Read the label when you purchase green tea and make sure it states that the tea used is standardized for caffeine as well as for EGCG.