Fatloss:Frequently Asked Questions

How long will it be before I see results?
Ok I am sure this would be the most asked question if I set up a survey. And guys just because I lost a certain amount of fat in a certain amount of time doesn't mean that you will lose the same amount of fat in the same amount of time. We are all different! That's why you there's that guy/girl you know who eats junk food day in day out and stays thin if not slims down! The best way to answer this question is that it is undetermineable! But it will happen! If you stick to certain rules you make for yourself that are based on information from this page I guarantee it will happen! It maybe at the same rate I lost fat, it maybe slower than the rate I lost fat, or hell it may be even faster then the rate that I lost fat!

How can I be sure that the results of this whole eating/exercising thing you're throwing at me isn't just water-loss?
Ok sure, fair question, you do my routine for who knows...two weeks say, and sure you get on that crappy indicator of fatloss (scale) and you say "oh hey I lost 5 lbs". Sure Ok this may be water-loss. How can you determine that when you do this routine you are losing FAT as opposed to water is simple. Take off your clothes and look at yourself in the mirror, if your reaction is "I look the same but weigh less" then I'm sorry you have lost only water and you may want to re-evaluate your eating habits. If your reaction is "Damn where'd my stomach go?" Then congratulations you have lost enough fat to notice a difference. In essence, water-loss won't alter your appearance whereas a substantial amount of fat-loss will.

Your table of preferable food choices is so restrictive! I crave junk food and as a result binge-eat! How can I stop this?
Ok sure maybe an acquired taste is required for day in and day out of carrots, apples, bananas, and soy products. If you find that you crave junk food and you actually binge eat chips, cake, muffins, chocolate then there is one thing to do. You have to ask yourself if you are committed to losing this fat! It is tough I know, I've been there... but it's a bad deal. Think of this, you exercise on an exercise bike (aerobic exercise) for 45 mins. Guess what? You burnt around 300-350 calories! Then you crave food, junk food at that and sure you have a whole bag of chips. What took you 45 minutes to burn just took you 15 minutes to gain back! The bad deal is that you have to work hard at burning more calories while it's 100 times easier to anull your daily caloric loss by eating! If these cravings are unbearable your only option is to either fight the urge yourself, or throw all junkfood out of the house and not buy anymore! Cruel right? Well it'll pay off if you are committed.

How can I be sure that your so called "routine" works?
Good question, I will answer that with another question, What have I got to lose? If that confused you, think of it this way. Why would I want to lie to you? Why would I want to say "This routine works" if I know clearly it doesn't? I might have motive to do that if I was getting paid, but I'm not! I'm not asking you for any money to see how it was done. I'm telling you how it was done - if I tell you a whole bunch of bogus information then the worst that can happen is nothing will happen to you and nothing will happen to me. (You will either lose weight or you will stay at the same weight - there is no chance of you gaining weight since I'm talking about EXERCISING!). Basically it's a matter of whether you want to trust what i'm telling you. But any nutritionist will tell you that exercise and eating fewer calories, while watching out for fatty foods is the way to go.

Why is water so helpful? It is something everyone is telling me to do, but why/how does it work?
Here's a good question, and to get into the details of how it works I would have to delve into biochemistry and chemical structure of lipids. Let's try and answer this though- We will examine all of water's useful affects. Water's apparent appetite-suppressant feature is no magic. In fact eating ANYTHING is an appetite-suppressant because eating ANYTHING makes you full. True you're not "eating" water but it's filling your stomach up and as soon as that happens, you are not as hungry anymore. This isn't to say that whenever you're hungry-drink water! It means that whenever you eat ANYTHING (healthy or unhealthy) drink plenty of water with it! As it will stop you from over-eating. What about water's ability to metabolize stored fat? - This is the aspect that requires some biochemistry knowledge - the process is known as hydrolysis. (I will try and make a diagram of that here soon.) Water's tendency to correct salt imbalances? - This is simple biology. Get a glass of water and chuck in a hell of a lot of salt in it and dissolve. Pretend this is your body now, you have lots of salts in there from say digested food. How can you correct this hypertonic solution of salts? Chuck in some water to dilute it. Water-being zero calories is also helpful yes, but its usefulness in fat-loss is not only attributed to this feature.