Are you looking to trim fat, lose love handles, and flatten your belly? We hear a lot about dieting and cutting back our calories to lose weight, but we don't just want to lose weight, we also want to lose fat... and fast!

In a nut shell, without exercising, much of the weight you lose will be muscle, not fat, and your metabolism will slow. The more muscle you have the faster your metabolism burns.  To lose fat, you’ll need to add more exercise to your weight loss program. Try increasing your workout routine to at least 3 days per week for 1 hour each day. Or for faster results up that to even 5 days a week.  Aim to get your heart rate into that cardio fat burning zone of 60% - 70% of your maximum heart rate (max heart rate = 220 - your age) for at least 30 minutes each workout and do a variety of strength training exercises for at least 20 minutes.  You can best accomplish this by combining your resistenence workout with your cardio.  Try circuit training or super setting your exercises.  Concentrate on moving fast between exercises and not allowing yourself to rest. 

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Is there such a thing as a good time or bad time to eat? Will your body add pounds if you feed it at the wrong time, or will you binge if you miss the window of time to stave off a craving? Because everybody has a theory about when and when not to eat, we asked our team of experts to separate the myths from the facts and to define mealtime.

The Theory: Don't eat carbohydrates after 8:00 P.M. because you'll never burn them off.

The Reality: "The rationale here is that, at night, our bodies won't use up the fuel we eat because we're not very active (in fact, we're usually asleep). To some extent this is true. If we don't use the calories we take in, they are temporarily stored in the muscles or liver, whether they come from carbohydrates, protein, or dietary fat. Luckily, the calories in/calories out ledger doesn't close every night and start fresh the next day; you can use the calories the next morning.  You won't experience weight gain unless you consistently take in more calories than you use." Says Dakota Routh, CEO of Body Renew Fitness & Tanning. 

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