General Fat Loss Topics Archive

  • Tom Venuto’s Top 10 Travel Fitness Tips, Part 2

    Tom Venuto’s Top 10 Travel Fitness Tips, Part 2

    By Tom Venuto www.burnthefat.com Continued from part 1 6. Cook portable foods and bring meal replacements or healthy snacks for drives, flights and day trips I love to drive, so for my trip last month I packed everything up in my car and hit the road. Naturally, I cooked for the road trip and my [...]

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  • Tom Venuto’s Top 10 Travel Fitness Tips, Part 1

    Tom Venuto’s Top 10 Travel Fitness Tips, Part 1

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.burnthefat.com I recently read two articles about travel fitness. One said that while you’re traveling, you should keep up with 50% of your normal training and the other said you should keep up with only one-third. Both were written by well known fitness professionals and both said that you should [...]

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  • Body Wraps And Waist Wraps – The Difference Between Losing Fat And Losing Inches

    Body Wraps And Waist Wraps – The Difference Between Losing Fat And Losing Inches

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com www.BurnTheFatInnerCircle.com “Body wraps” have been around for ages in the weight loss and spa industry. Claims include loss of body weight, loss of body fat, and loss of inches. Infomercials for rubber “waist belts” are also back on TV and similar claims are made for these types of wraps [...]

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  • “The Incredible Shrinking Fat Cell”… What Happens To Fat Cells When They’re Burned?

    “The Incredible Shrinking Fat Cell”… What Happens To Fat Cells When They’re Burned?

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Earlier this week someone in our discussion forum wrote, “I haven’t “LOST” any fat… I know EXACTLY where it went! I got a chuckle out of that because I “got” the joke, but truth is, most people really don’t know how fat cells work, how the fat burning process [...]

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  • 3500 Calories To Lose A Pound – Is This Formula All Wrong?

    3500 Calories To Lose A Pound – Is This Formula All Wrong?

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Most fitness conscious people have heard that there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, so if you create a deficit of 3500 calories in a week, you lose a pound of weight. If you create a deficit of 7000 calories in a week, you lose two pounds, [...]

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  • How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat… Even Your Favorite Protein Drinks!

    How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat… Even Your Favorite Protein Drinks!

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com At least 7 scientific studies have provided strong evidence that energy containing beverages (i.e., “liquid calories”) do not properly activate the satiety mechanisms in the body and brain and do not satisfy the appetite as well as food in solid form. Epidemiological research also supports a positive association between [...]

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  • Listen To Maintainers, Not To Losers: 5 Secrets To Keeping The Weight Off For Good

    Listen To Maintainers, Not To Losers: 5 Secrets To Keeping The Weight Off For Good

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight. “Big losers” don’t impress me, for numerous reasons. For example, weight is not fat. “Weight” could be composed of mostly lean tissue, or it could be mostly water weight. In [...]

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  • Avoid This Killer Weight Regain Mistake

    Avoid This Killer Weight Regain Mistake

    By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com If you want to burn off fat and keep it off permanently, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one… Previous research has concluded without a shred of doubt that high levels of exercise are [...]

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  • The 2 Pounds Per Week Rule And How To Burn Fat Faster

    The 2 Pounds Per Week Rule And How To Burn Fat Faster

    By Tom Venuto www.BurnTheFat.com Why do you always hear that 2 pounds per week is the maximum amount of fat you should safely lose? If you train really hard while watching calories closely shouldn’t you be able to lose more fat without losing muscle or damaging your health? What if you want to lose fat [...]

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  • How To Go From Calorie Clueless To Calorie Competent

    How To Go From Calorie Clueless To Calorie Competent

    By Tom Venuto www.BurnTheFat.com Why is it that any time you hear the words “calorie counting” or “food journaling”, people start running for the hills? If creating menus, counting calories and keeping a food journal are research-proven, effective tools for nutrition awareness, education, motivation and accountability (they are), then why is there so much resistance [...]

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