Sunday, March 30, 2008 Paquiao: The effective way to lose fat By Calixto S. Paquiao fitness & you
SUPPOSE you wake up one morning to find your waistline and hips are bulging out and, when you turn around and wiggle, your butt jiggles looking like two watermelons.
Would you think: “Oh my goodness, what happened to my once sexy body? I’m getting fat.”
Now your usual reaction would be something like: “I’d better go on a diet to get rid of it.”
But most people don’t ask what is causing them to get fat. They only want to get back to normal.
I’m not saying it’s bad to go on a diet if you get too fat.
What I’m saying is that excess fat is not the problem.
It’s only a symptom of the problem. The problem, therefore, is what makes you gain fat easily.
You can call it metabolism, biochemistry, systemic health or just plain fat chemistry.
You can use any phrase you like, but be sure to concentrate on the internal reasons for your fat, and not on the external fat itself.
It’s just like having a common cold, which is more than just a runny nose.
With it may come fever, headache, coughing, nasal congestion—it’s a problem for the whole body. An antihistamine may lessen the symptom of a runny nose, but it doesn’t cure the cold.
Similarly, excess fat is a visible manifestation of an underlying systemic disorder.
You can decrease fat with dieting or with surgery but you actually haven’t changed your metabolism or your tendency to get fat.
To focus on losing fat without doing something about changing your body’s tendency to acquire fat is wrong and useless.
This is because the lost bodyweight will just come back and the worse thing that can happen is that it will increase more of what you lost.
There are lots of products in the market offered by many diet food manufacturers promising rapid weight loss.
Some weight loss gimmicks, such as wiring the jaws shut, stapling the stomach, liposuction, dieting thru juicing and taking laxatives, are so short-sighted and destructive that I won’t waste time dealing with them.
I do not recommend these diets because they ignore the issue of metabolism.
What I recommend is a sensible weight loss program, which must include a heavy commitment to making alterations in fat chemistry.
Here’s a three-pronged approach to fat control:
1. Aerobic exercise to enhance the body’s ability to burn fat.
It has a tremendous effect on the metabolism of fat, on heat production, on fat cells and on practically every other facet of fat chemistry in the body.
2. Balanced dieting to get rid of the symptoms, which excess fat, could be one.
It induces only gradual fat loss but it helps keep muscle from decreasing as fat decreases.
3. Weight training or strength training. Increasing the amount of muscle so that the body uses more calories and helps shape up the body.
So, these are the most effective ways for getting rid of fat.
Do it religiously and you will have very good results within 12 weeks.
Commit yourself seriously and you will never fail.
