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Not that everyone is trying to lose weight and become healthier, but if that is you here are a few things you need to consider so you don’t waste your precious time and energy.

1. Losing weight isn’t a simple math equation!  The good Lord didn’t design your body or allows your body composition to be based solely on burning more calories than you consume. If He die there wouldn’t be so many people, struggling with their weight even though they exercise and watch what they eat. In order to achieve long lasting weight loss you need to make sure your metabolism is burning calories from stored body fat.  Just because you burned 300 extra calories from working out – doesn’t mean you burned stored body fat. I talk about this in “To Burn or Not to Burn – Fat is the Question”

2. Your body burns calories by breaking down carbohydrates, proteins or fats.  Those are the only three choices you have available. People who struggle with fatigue, cravings, irritability, hormonal imbalances and the inability to lose weight or add lean muscle are typically burning calories from the breakdown of carbohydrates and proteins (lean muscle). You’ll never drop those extra inches if you aren’t burning calories from the breakdown of fats.

FYI…He designed your metabolism so that it would prefer to burn fats more readily than carbohydrates, which is why you generate more than two-and-a half times more energy when you burn fats in comparison to carbs and proteins.  This is one of the biggest reasons why fatigue and weight gain always seem to go together!

3. You should be in your ‘fat-burning’ zone 23 hours out of the day.  The proverbial ‘fat-burning’ zone is best known with regards to aerobic exercise.  However, it is something you want happening for the 23 hours of the day you aren’t working out.

If you are reading this now – you should be in your fat burning zone, but because of skipping meals, the wrong diet, the wrong workout program, too much stress and cortisol (this is a big one), along with whatever health issues you are dealing with could be throwing off your metabolism and triggering your body to burn carbs and lean muscle instead of fats.