Train Your Body to Burn Stored Fat by Doing Two Things

These are the preferred type of fuel over protein via your diet or breaking down muscle tissue (which isn't a good option).

The muscles and liver keep glycogen stores for energy and start using it for fuel when your muscles work hard.

An excellent example of this is when you are working out.

When you need more energy than what food provides, your fat cells will begin to break down and release fatty acids.

The more stored fat cells are released for energy, the smaller they get.

That is how you move towards a leaner physique.

How to enhance your fat-burning capabilities

To enhance your capacity to burn fat for energy, you will need to consume fewer carbohydrates (within the 50–75 gram range), with the rest of your nutrients coming from meats, veggies and fats.

The requirement is to consume carbs from your vegetable sources to receive adequate nutrients daily.

Fruits should be eaten moderately, preferably only berries, containing far less fructose.

Highly processed carbohydrates and refined grains and sugars provide no nutritional value. It would help if you opted to eliminate these.

Another great option is intermittent fasting.

Our bodies shift from burning glucose for energy to burning ketone bodies during these periods.

Ketones are created in the liver from the breakdown of fat.

Your body frequently enters a Ketogenic state during periods of fasting, such as when you are sleeping, and can readily shift from relying on carbohydrates for fuel towards fat.

Don't forget to weight train

Lifting weight enhances your body's ability to burn stored body fat due to the metabolic demands of lifting the weight.

Not only does it change our body shape, it enhances our metabolism, allowing for a more significant caloric burn at rest without increasing our fat cells in the process.

Weight training also makes us insulin sensitive, allowing the shuttling of glucose to fuel our muscles instead of attaching themselves to fat cells.

Our bodies become a lot more metabolically flexible, therefore allowing us, at times, to eat more carbs than what we know we should, but utilising them effectively for energy.

It's what the hard work of strength training allows us to do.

I would take advantage of this If I were you - that's coming from my own experience in weight training.

Perhaps you can now understand from reading this why I highly recommend lifting weights - especially for women.

Not only will your body shape become toned, slim and fit, but it also helps increase your metabolism whilst providing your body with the means for burning stored fat.

Weight training in conjunction with fasting provides one of the best alternatives towards staying lean healthy and putting you on the fat-burning machine pedestal.

Summary

To summarise the above outlines, the best way to allow your body to use fat stores is to:

1. First, reduce your carbohydrate intake and get your carbs from veggies.
2. If you find this challenging, carb cycle instead, eating higher carbs on days when you lift heavy-weight or train for substantial periods
3. Introduce intermittent fasting daily or regularly to induce the state of Ketosis. Ketosis will allow your body to burn fat stores for energy. To further enhance this process, consume fewer carbohydrates regularly.
4. Strength train to build muscle, increase your metabolism, and tap into fat reserves for energy.

You can bypass these steps if resorting to an intermittent lifestyle.

Fasting allows you to hit all these points by eliminating one meal per day. That's all you need to do to reap the marvellous benefits that fasting can bring into your life. I urge you to try it out and find out for yourself.

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