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The Truth About Stubborn Body Fat - Page 2
Spot Reduction STILL Doesn't Work
You might have the desire to remove the fat on these concentrated fatty spots first, but unfortunately, that's not how human physiology works. In fitness lingo, we call this spot reduction. It's the idea that you can do certain exercises, rub cream on one part of your body, or take a certain drug, and it will melt the fat off one part of your body and one part only. The idea is wrong - spot reduction is physiologically impossible.
Not only do most people believe in stubborn fat, they also believe in spot reduction. Unethical marketers, without a shred of integrity, have taken advantage of this fact for years by selling worthless gimmicks which claim to remove fat from a specific area.
Every year, promotional articles and advertisements come out claiming that a breakthrough has been made and spot reduction is now possible.
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Other spot reduction scams include abdominal machines, ab rollers, ab wheels, electronic stimulators, pills, soaps, wraps, girdles, and so on, all of which claim to remove fat from the stomach, thighs or other specific areas. Some of the exercise machines are effective at developing the muscles underneath the fat, so they aren't totally worthless, but the claims of local fat loss are where they fail.
No matter how many times we fitness professionals give this speech: "Spot reduction" doesn't work, it's a myth, the public still wants to believe so desperately that it IS possible, that they keep plunking down their hard-earned cashola, scam after scam after scam, hoping that science has finally produced the real McCoy.
I've read the ads for these new topical fat burners and they can be EXTREMELY persuasive. They quote scientific studies and get testimonials from big names, some of whom you would assume are very trustworthy. But ethics often melt quickly in the rays of big money endorsements.
Let me save you a lot of time, money and frustration: "Spot reducing" products are not effective for permanent fat loss and never will be. Do not waste your money!
The good news is that if you learn the physiology of fat loss, which is really quite simple and if you work with your body naturally, you can lose ANY fat. All you need is a little bit of patience, persistence and some good old-fashioned hard work.
The Truth About Stubborn Fat
Here's why these fatty areas appear "stubborn" and why people continue to call it "stubborn" fat: By the time someone loses enough fat overall to be down to that last localized pocket (the place they put it on first), most people have caused metabolic and hormonal damage from overly restrictive dieting. THAT is what makes the last fat harder to lose; Not because the thigh/butt/tricep/ab fat cells themselves are more stubborn, but because you're simply not burning as many calories as you used to.
For example, if a you're a guy with a total daily energy expenditure of 2800 per day and you stay on 1500 calories per day for 90 days (starvation diet), then according to the mathematical calories in versus calories out calculations, you have accumulated a 117,000-calorie deficit. With 3500 calories in a pound of fat, that means you should have lost 33.4 pounds of fat. But you didn't!! You lost maybe 19 pounds and then got stuck at a plateau with that last bit of lower ab flab still defiantly clinging to your waistline. Why,because you're no longer BURNING 2800 calorie per day!!! Your metabolic fire has dwindled to a weak flicker. There is no longer a 1300 calorie per day deficit.
In other words, you hit a plateau, metabolically and hormonally. Your fat-burning hormones and enzymes have decreased. Your metabolic rate is depressed. You've lost lean mass, which has slowed your metabolism even further (and permanently so until you put that muscle back on through weight training and eating like a human being instead of a mouse). Last, but certainly not least, your appetite has gone haywire and you seem to get constant cravings that are practically irresistible.
If you had not slowed down your metabolism and created an unfavorable hormonal environment due to improper dieting and lack of exercise, you would not be stuck and that last bit of fat would just continue to come right off just like the rest of it did, it would be the very LAST place to come off, but it WOULD come right off.
Your solution for losing the last bit of localized fat is to avoid metabolic slowdown in the first place and then to patiently and persistently follow through until you're as lean as you want to be.
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