So now you’ve decided to restrict your fuel intake.  That’s a good thing.  However, if you wanted to lose weight by only restricting the fuel intake, how long would it take to lose weight?  Consider this: a pound of stored fat contains about 3500 calories.  That means that one pound of fat has more than two full days’ worth of “fuel” for a “normal-sized” person.  That means if you’re 10 pounds overweight, you have 20 full days of unburned fuel inside you.

Would you like to speed things up?  I knew you would.  The obvious thing to do is to boost your “burn rate”.  Any level above your “normal” activity is a boost of your burn rate.  If you’ve been sluggish for a while, you will need to start slowly AND under medical supervision.  With a gradually increasing exercise program you will begin to consume more calories from your stored reserves progressively faster.

Then there’s the question of the flab.  It’s one thing to lose the fat.  It’s another thing altogether to increase muscle mass.  A well-designed regimen will increase your muscle mass, which will boost your metabolism, which in turn will accelerate the rate of fuel consumption (i.e. fat burning).  The really cool thing is that once your muscle mass gets to a certain percentage of your body weight, magic begins to happen.  Your metabolism is going so fast that you actually burn fat while you sleep.  How cool is that?

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