You can use the insider secrets of top athletes to turn your body into a lean, hard, fat burning machine. The best thing is that you use your own body to burn the fat away.

Follow the lead of world-class athletes and body builders to lose body fat while keeping all the muscle. Burning fat and building muscle is the healthy way to lose weight.

The trick is that muscle burns more calories than fat, even when you are resting. You can sleep away your unwanted fat. It works even better if you do some exercise.

Eating the right combination of foods can help with fat burning without muscle loss. You do not need those diet pills, supplements or shakes. You do not need any weird foods, or special ingredients.

You can eat more to lose more fat. In fact, if you starve yourself you will not lose weight permanently. You are doing your body damage and gaining fat. You need calories to lose weight.

Foods like chicken breast, turkey breast, very lean red meat and most types of fish are the best for your fat loss, muscle-building diet. Add a green vegetable to a serve of any of these low fat protein foods and you have a healthy meal.

Celery is known to be a dieter’s best friend but it can get boring.  If you are looking for something different, try Romaine lettuce, spinach, arugula, mustard greens, collard greens, Swiss chard, turnip greens, kale and celery, in different combinations.

A healthy eating plan with regular exercise will make you feel more energetic and happier. You would be surprised at the difference a week of healthy living can make to your life.

By Wendy Streater

Your Body Isn’t Fat, It’s Efficient

Your body is a very efficient machine. You should be proud. If we were living in prehistoric times, you would be a survivor. Your body has been designed to keep you alive and functioning in times of food shortage. In ancient times we had to hunt or gather our food, and then clean, prepare and cook it, before we could eat. Not a lot of food came cooked and ready made from the bag or can.

Our bodies, super efficient survival machines that they are, are designed to keep us fit enough to go out and hunt for our food after periods of little or no sustenance. Our bodies have storage areas all over to hold a cache of extra energy for when we need it.

Today we live in an environment of comfort and ease. Our food needs little in the way of preparation and most of it is efficient food. Efficient food is food that provides a lot of energy. A good example of efficient food is chocolate. It is easily converted to energy by our bodies. If the energy is not used immediately, it is stored by our efficient bodies for a time when we may need it for our survival.

In order to become slimmer we first need to change the way we think of our bodies. Instead of feeling your body is fat, tell yourself your body is super-efficient. Get over your mental hang-ups and stop punishing yourself for being a survival machine. Think of your body as super efficient. Understand that your body is doing a great job. It is doing exactly as it was designed.

You must realise your body doesn’t understand abundance. It is afraid you will run out of food. The best way to help your body feel safe is to keep feeding it. Instead of starving yourself, you should eat more often. This tells your body there is no shortage of food. The type of food you eat is important,   too.  Food that takes a lot of energy to chew, digest and convert is the type of food you need.

If you remember your body is a super efficient machine that still believes it is in prehistoric times you will do well. Foods like fresh fruit and vegetables, or very lightly steamed vegetables are excellent. They use energy to digest and convert them to energy. You are not storing as much energy by eating these foods.

Eating fresh, unprocessed foods will make you feel full, they will help clear your system of bad fats and cholesterol and they will help your body work even more efficiently. You will feel great and your body will use up the extra stored energy. You will be slimmer, healthier and proud of the super efficient machine that is your body.