Thursday, January 8, 2009

2 Safe Techniques For Getting Rid Of Thigh Fat

By Luke Rutledge

Do you want to lose that ugly, annoying flab on your thigh? It is possible, but if you think that you can lose thigh fat fast or any fat at all, through the use of weight loss pills or random diet supplements, I'm sorry, but it's not going to happen! And if you've been told that there is some special workout to do in order to lose thigh fat, whoever told you that was severely misinformed.

In reality, whether you want to lose thigh fat, belly fat, neck fat, or any other fat, there is no way for you to target certain areas of your body. You can target certain areas of your body when it comes to weight-lifting and muscle growth, but not for weight loss. Your body will decide which fat comes off first. All you have to do it start the fat burning process.

Therefore, it only makes sense to do things that would help you burn fat from all parts of your body. Basically, you want to follow a healthy diet and do resistance training and cardio workouts! This is the only way to lose thigh fat, as well as all other body fat!

1. Your diet: The diet you choose to follow for the purpose of weight loss is very crucial. Low-calorie and low-fat diets won't help you burn fat because these diets don't increase your metabolism!

Far from boosting your metabolic rate, these diets actually slow down your metabolism! Here is how: with a low-calorie or low-fat diet, your body doesn't get enough nutrition. Consequently it believes that it is going to die out of starvation. It immediately stops the fat burning process by slowing down your metabolic rate, and stores the fat deposits so that it could survive during starvation.

With such diets, you will lose a few pounds initially for sure, but as soon as you quit them and return to your normal eating habits, you gain back all the weight you had lost!

So what types of diets should you choose? You should choose a diet that includes eating fruits and vegetables for sure. Natural fruits and vegetables are not only great for increasing your metabolism; they are also extremely effective at suppressing your hunger!

Choosing a healthy diet plan is just not enough; you should also choose a diet which allows you to cheat at least once per week. On this cheating day, you are free to indulge yourself in your favorite foods. And don't think that taking a little break from your diet would make you fatter; far from it; it will actually help you lose weight by boosting your metabolic rate to a very high level!

Apart from that, it would also satiate you mentally so that you can focus on your diet plan for the rest of the week without any craving for forbidden foods.

2. Exercises: While a diet plan alone is enough for significant weight loss, many people try adding some intense workouts into their routines so they can accelerate the weight loss process! Strength and cardio training are the best ways increase weight loss. With strength training, you will not only burn fat, but you also add valuable lean muscle to your body.

Lean muscle is really important to overall health. It makes your body stronger and also helps you burn fat, even while you're resting. As a matter of fact, you can easily burn around fifty more calories per day for every pound of muscle! This is because muscles need more calories in order to sustain themselves.

Follow these two important steps for weight loss and that thigh fat is as good as gone, along with the rest of that unwanted body fat!

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