How To Naturally Lose Weight Fast – Free Diets
Most people don’t have a clue what fat burning really is. They have this vague illusion but don’t know the details. I believe that in order to be successful at burning fat you need to know they way of the fat.
Fat is stored in fat cells that can be found between your skin and your muscles. This is called the subcutaneous fat reserve, this fat exists all over your body but it can also be stored around your internal organs.
It is the fat stored around the internal organ that gives you the ‘belly’ while your love handles comes from subcutaneous fat. You burn fat in almost every cell in your body but the muscles and certain organs burn most of the fat. Hence, fat is stored in one place (the fat cells) and are burnt in another place (muscles and organs).
So the release of fat is one of the most important steps for efficient fat burning, but it is just the first step in a complex process. Once the fat have been released from the fat cell, in the shape of free fatty acids, it is transported from the fat cell to the target. It is delivered by your blood circulation. The absorption of the fat into the muscle is done passively, meaning that it requires no energy. This means that if there are a lot of free fatty acids in your blood and that those will be absorbed in the same extent.
If your body is set to burn a lot of fat, it will release lots of fat into your blood circulation. The more ‘free’ fat you have in your body the more will be absorbed by muscles and burnt. There are some theories that the fat is actively absorbed into the muscle but no matter what, the amount of free fatty acids in your blood flow is important to how much fat you can burn.
Ok, just because the fat have been absorbed by your muscles doesn’t mean that it is ready to be used yet. First the fat has to be transported to the mitochondria (this is the power plant of the cell). In the mitochondria the fat could be burnt for energy for exercising for example. Burning fat is, as you now understand, a complicated process and it is quite slow.
The first thing that is needed is the release of the fat. This can be affected in two (major) ways, exercising that increase the need for energy and it can also be affected from what you eat.
Even if you are completely relaxed you still use some fat for energy, but if you get physically active you will burn several times more fat and your potential to burn fat also increases.
The fatty acids released into the blood must be transported to its target, hence it is very important to drink lots of water to keep your blood flowing easily. This is heavily affected by what you eat but more on that later. Step three in the process is where the mitochondria absorb the fat and burn it.
The mitochondrias isn’t always in the mood for fat burning and this is the most complicated step in losing fat. Following the link below will help you to adjust your diet and make your mitochondrias hungry for fat!
By: Jennifer Olsen
