How To Set Up Your Environment For Fat Loss Success
The world is out to get you… fatter! That’s right. Modern society is conspiring against you… plotting and scheming to make you eat more and move less. Scientists even have a name for it: “The [...]
Who Burns The Fat And Keeps It Off And Who Gains It Back (According To Science)
Obesity researchers from the University of Surrey in the UK published a fascinating and enlightening study about fat loss and fat loss maintenance that predicted how likely you are to take the fat off and [...]
Low Carb Intelligence vs Low Carb Stupidity, Revisited
It’s incredible that I’m reprinting this article about low carb diets that I originally wrote in 2004. Yet it’s no surprise either that this has become relevant and worth sharing [...]
How Tracking Your Workout Calories Burned Can Sabotage Your Fat Loss
Tracking the calories you burn from your workouts could sabotage your fat loss? What? Aren't you supposed to do that? Isn't it a good idea to use fitness trackers to monitor your calorie burn? Don't you [...]
Daily Fat-Burning Habits: The Simplest Approach To Getting Lean And Staying Lean
Are you overwhelmed with meal planning, calorie and macro number-crunching, or putting together a fat loss plan for the first time? Or, have you been working at it for a while, but you’re having a tough [...]
Is It Ever Safe To Cut Calories More Aggressively To Burn Fat Faster?
You’re losing fat too slow. You want to burn fat faster. However, you’ve heard that cutting calories too much will kill your metabolism, tank your hormones and wreak all kinds of havoc in your body, not to [...]
The 7 Scariest Weight Loss Diets
Happy Halloween! You think that horror flick you watched or that haunted house you visited was scary? The most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen was not produced by Wes Craven or found in a theme [...]
If Your Goal Is Fat Loss, Why Shouldn’t Your Training Focus More On Cardio Than Weights?
If your primary goal is fat loss, shouldn’t you just focus on cardio and hold off on the weight training? And if they say you can’t gain muscle when you’re in a calorie deficit, why [...]
"Unexplainable" Fat Loss Plateaus… Explained!
Fat loss plateaus and lack of progress are always frustrating. What makes it utterly maddening is when you feel like you’re putting in a superhuman effort in the gym and reducing calories, but still making [...]
Fat Loss Plateaus: 4 Reasons Why Your Progress Stopped
Today’s Burn the Fat Blog post answers a reader question about why his fat loss stopped and explains the real reasons why people hit fat loss plateaus. It happens especially when you get down to that [...]