How Fast Can You Burn Fat?

You can burn fat almost as fast as you like within reason. The question of how fast can you burn fat has frequently been asked by people that want to lose fat and lose weight very rapidly for a specific purpose. Whether that is for a forthcoming even such as a wedding, or whether you have an operation shortly for which you have to lose a lot of weight, there is a limit as to how much fat you can lose safely.

An important concept that you must understand right away is that fat loss does not equate to weight loss. You can lose 4 pounds of fat without losing 4 pounds of body weight. That is because when burning fat, you may also be adding muscle bulk, and muscle tissue contains more water than fat. So you can lose fat, but not lose a lot of weight.

However, if you include more protein in your diet, such as a protein supplement or plenty chicken, then you will be feeding your muscles with amino acids from the protein, and building strength. Your metabolic rate increases because muscles use more energy than fat cells, and you will then begin to see a weight benefit from losing fat. Your fat will continue to break down into glucose and energy, and your muscles will eventually reach a plateau of development.

However, how fast can you burn fat? Generally about 2-3 pounds a week maximum! You can only burn fat when you gave a calorie deficit - you eat fewer calories than you use up in exercise. Two pounds of fat contains 7,000 calories, and that's a lot of calories to lose when you consider your diet already must contain 1300 - 1500 calories to maintain your essential life functions of breathing, digesting and blood circulation just to start with.

How are you going to save another 7000 calories a week let alone over 10,000 to lose 3 pounds? Some claim to help you to lose 10 pounds a week: how do they work that out? That is 35000 calories a week, or 5,000 calories a day to lose. You are only likely eating 2000 calories each day to meet your daily needs, so you are going to have to exercise the rest - you lose 600 calories by jogging an hour, so that's 8.3 hours solid jogging! Nonsense!

Even exercising 1,000 calories a day is jogging for almost two hours. To burn 3 pounds a week you would have to jog 2.5 hours every day. That's why the most fat you can burn in a week is about 2 pounds. That equates to more than 2 pounds weight loss of course, for reasons explained above - perhaps nearer 3 pounds weight loss.

Therefore, how fast can you burn fat? About 2 pounds a week would be my estimate. How would you achieve that? Well, it's unlikely you would want to jog almost 2 hours every single day, so you have to work out some way of either consuming fewer calories or exercising more. You should not try to do without fat completely, because you need some in your diet.

Vitamins A, E and K are all essential for your health, and you could not survive without them. That's the definition of a vitamin - they are essential components of your diet, and these three are fat-soluble. They don't dissolve in water at all, so about 25% - 30% of your diet should consist of fats or you will be in a lot of trouble health-wise.

One way to achieve that without consuming too many calories is to eat some fat and a lot of lean protein. A diet of chicken and green or colored vegetables would give you enough fat plus nutrition in the form of antioxidants and anti-inflammatories without overdoing the carbohydrates.

Your body will get carbohydrate from the protein in chicken, which will also release amino acids to build up your muscle tissue. The more muscle tissue you have the higher your metabolic rate and the more calories you will burn. This will help you to burn even more fat and so on. Keep in mind that losing 2 pounds of fat could be 3 or more pounds in body weight.

So by changing your diet to a protein-rich diet, cutting back on sugars and other carbohydrates and relying on the protein to provide the carbs, it is possible to lose 2 pounds of fat in a week or even slightly less than a week.

Increasing your exercise by taking about an hour of aerobic exercise each day and perhaps 30 mins weight training along with a protein-rich diet will enable you to burn fat, feed your muscles, increase your metabolic rate and burn fat at probably your fastest possible rate of 2 pounds or slightly more each week. That's about how fast you can burn fat and remain healthy.

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