Monday, December 28, 2009

6 Pointers For Losing Loose Arm Fat

By Katherine Crawford M.S.

Extreme dietary restriction when learning how to lose arm fat is cardinal sin number one. Despite all the "don't starve yourself" and "eat six meals a day" advice, many women are STILL dieting the dirty way. And most women simply do not know how to change their eating patterns in a healthy and sustainable fashion.

But the truth is that such guerilla dieting destroys the body's metabolic mechanisms. In other words, it shuts down your body's ability to burn off the arm flab. So here are 6 nutrition tips to follow so that your body (and mind) doesn't shut down:

1. Don't obsess over burning more calories than you take in. We're all busy and don't have all day to exercise or learn how to lose arm fat. You do not need to do both cardiovascular work and weight training to get rid of your flabby arms. All you need is a short (45 minutes or less) and intense weight training workout that will keep you burning an excess of calories days after.

2. Throw away your food journal. Actually, if you have a food journal feel free to burn it while chanting a victory song. On the surface, the concept of keeping a journal may seem like a good idea, but eventually it will make you feel like a slave.

3. Pay attention to each meal. Instead of micromanaging everything, simply make sure that each one of your meals is balanced. In other words, include a protein, fat, vegetable, and carbohydrate food item in each meal. This is all you have to do.

4. Forget about counting calories. Even worse than the food log, because now instead of pulling out your hair, you'll want to jump off a cliff. The whole calorie counting mumbo jumbo is based on an outdated closed thermodynamic model. In other words, the flawed idea that a 3500 caloric deficit produces 1 lb. of fat loss.

5. Keep consuming your guilty pleasures. All you have to do here is reduce the size of your guilty pleasure and accompany it with a fibrous serving of vegetables. Do both of these and the negative impact of your guilty food will be greatly reduced, if not eliminated.

6. Limit alcohol to one serving a day. Despite the common knowledge that too much alcohol is bad for you, too many of my female clients load up on bottomless bottles of wine. Do this, and not only will you get a surplus of calories going to your arm fat, but you'll also shut down the fat-burning hormones in your body.

I hope you aren't feeling intimidated by the process of learning how to lose arm fat. Changing your eating patterns is not that hard as long as you are patient and take a healthy approach. And now you have 6 key things that will make the change that much easier!

One more thing: expect to make mistakes. No one can diet perfectly for extended periods of time. The key here is to get right back on target as quickly as humanly possible. - 29161

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