How to lose weight as fast as humanly possible (healthily and safetly).

In order to lose weight quickly, you need to avoid and fix both of the two problems below.

If you suffer from these (and most people do!), then nothing you try will work.

Once you understand that, then I can show you exactly how to drop all of that stored fat that your body thinks you need.

I have seen so many clients who are overweight but do not have obvious eating disorders. It’s so easy for people to point the finger, saying “just eat less”. But it’s just not that straightforward.

There is actually societal pressure to be overweight. Just look at this chart! It’s not your fault.

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More and more people are overweight each year across the globe

But to take back control of your life and get the body you want as fast as you can imagine, you need to remind your body of a few things.

Use fat for fuel!

Your body has two major sources of energy. Glucose and fat.

Your body is quite the glucose addict, and pretty damn sneaky about how it gets its fix.

Besides being able to directly use the glucose that you eat in the form of sugar and carbs of all kinds, it can also covert both fat and protein to glucose.

When you eat, your body does a bunch of weird and wonderful things. One of them is to release a hormone called insulin.

The job of insulin is to save stuff for later. Whenever you eat, your body releases insulin to store everything you’re not using right now for a rainy day. And most of this is going to be stored as fat.

The thing is, the bigger your waistline, the more insulin in your blood. This is bad. Now, each time you eat something, you’re more likely to store it as fat.

And when your insulin is high, you don’t have access to your stored fat. If your insulin is always high, you can run, you can walk, you can eat low-carb, you can do whatever you want, but you’re just not going to lose weight!

Well, your issue doesn’t stop here.

Yes, you can’t burn fat because your levels of insulin are constantly jacked. But if you answer the following two questions with numbers greater than 10, then you also have a second problem. Just as big.

Ask yourself these two questions:

1. How many times have I tried to lose weight?
2. How many diets have I tried in my lifetime?

Your answers mean more than you might think.

If your answers to the above questions were more than 10 and you’re overweight, you’re definitely also struggling with this problem.

So let’s remember that equation again and break it down:

A calorie (cal) is simply a measure of energy. It’s 4.184 joules to be precise. A joule is also a measure of energy. When you talk about a light bulb using 10 Watts of energy, you just mean the rate at which it uses energy per second. A 10 W lightbulb uses 10 joules of energy per second. If it’s on for 10 seconds, it’s used 100 joules or 23.9 calories!

The thing is, the unit of measurement we use for measuring food has been slightly confused. It’s actually kilocalories (kcal). One kcal is worth 1000 calories. When talking about food, people always say calorie, but really mean kilocalorie, which is 1000 times more.

Back to our lightbulb. After running for 10 seconds it’s used only 0.0239 kcal. It’s going to have to run for a while to burn off that 50 kcal apple!

Since we’re talking about food and the human body here, I’ll use kcal and the word calorie interchangeably.

This is simply a sum of all the food you eat. All food is composed of carbohydrates, fat and protein to some degree. A gram of carbohydrates or protein contains 4 kcal of energy and a gram of fat is 9 kcal.

Your body is always using energy to carry out vital functions to keep you ticking.

If you were to sleep all day and all night, your body has a base rate of energy that it needs at a minimum to stay alive. This is called your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). You have your own unique value. You can estimate what your BMR is likely to be using an array of online calculators and equations.

But, you probably don’t sleep all day. You also expend energy by moving around, exercising, thinking and even by digesting food. Your BMR and the energy burned from your daily life will sum to give your total energy output throughout the day.

And yes, if the total calories you’re expending are greater than those eaten, you will lose weight. Nobody is debating that.

But this is where this equation is fatally flawed. How many calories are you actually burning?