Nutritional Considerations On How To Lose Arm Fat
Friday, 25 December 2009 08:03 | 
Written by Katherine Crawford M.S. |
In spite all of the good advice on how to lose arm fat, way too many women are still resorting to crash dieting. Why do they do it? Simply put, everybody wants a shortcut no matter how extreme it may be.
In spite all of the good advice on how to lose arm fat, way too many women are still resorting to crash dieting. Why do they do it? Simply put, everybody wants a shortcut no matter how extreme it may be.
In reality, many of the dirty dieting tactics set women up for devastating failure. Learning how to lose arm fat the right way shouldn't be so painful. Here are 6 must do's so that you don't end up hitting a brick wall:
1. Don't try to burn a crazy amount of calories. You are not the energizer bunny, so please don't spend hours and hours in the gym every day. All your arms need to stop jiggling is a short but hard workout (45min. or less), 2-3 times a week.
2. Throw away your food journal. Actually, if you have a food journal feel free to burn it while chanting a victory song. On the surface, the concept of keeping a journal may seem like a good idea, but eventually it will make you feel like a slave.
3. Pay attention to each meal. Instead of micromanaging everything, simply make sure that each one of your meals is balanced. In other words, include a protein, fat, vegetable, and carbohydrate food item in each meal. This is all you have to do.
4. Forget about counting calories. Even worse than the food log, because now instead of pulling out your hair, you'll want to jump off a cliff. The whole calorie counting mumbo jumbo is based on an outdated closed thermodynamic model. In other words, the flawed idea that a 3500 caloric deficit produces 1 lb. of fat loss.
5. Keep eating your pleasure foods. The trick here is to reduce the serving size of the pleasure food and to accompany it with a source of vegetables. The reduced serving size minimizes caloric impact and the vegetable source will slow down digestion (think "glycemic load").
6. Limit alcohol to one serving a day. Despite the common knowledge that too much alcohol is bad for you, too many of my female clients load up on bottomless bottles of wine. Do this, and not only will you get a surplus of calories going to your arm fat, but you'll also shut down the fat-burning hormones in your body.
Ok, now you have 6 tips to follow that should make learning how to lose arm fat that much easier. Be patient and change your eating style piecemeal, day by day. If you diet the dirty way, you'll end up crashing!
And remember that trying to get everything perfect in one shot is unrealistic. You will fall off the wagon from time to time. Expect this, and always get back on track as soon as possible.
In spite all of the good advice on how to lose arm fat, way too many women are still resorting to crash dieting. Why do they do it? Simply put, everybody wants a shortcut no matter how extreme it may be.
In reality, many of the dirty dieting tactics set women up for devastating failure. Learning how to lose arm fat the right way shouldn't be so painful. Here are 6 must do's so that you don't end up hitting a brick wall:
1. Don't try to burn a crazy amount of calories. You are not the energizer bunny, so please don't spend hours and hours in the gym every day. All your arms need to stop jiggling is a short but hard workout (45min. or less), 2-3 times a week.
2. Throw away your food journal. Actually, if you have a food journal feel free to burn it while chanting a victory song. On the surface, the concept of keeping a journal may seem like a good idea, but eventually it will make you feel like a slave.
3. Pay attention to each meal. Instead of micromanaging everything, simply make sure that each one of your meals is balanced. In other words, include a protein, fat, vegetable, and carbohydrate food item in each meal. This is all you have to do.
4. Forget about counting calories. Even worse than the food log, because now instead of pulling out your hair, you'll want to jump off a cliff. The whole calorie counting mumbo jumbo is based on an outdated closed thermodynamic model. In other words, the flawed idea that a 3500 caloric deficit produces 1 lb. of fat loss.
5. Keep eating your pleasure foods. The trick here is to reduce the serving size of the pleasure food and to accompany it with a source of vegetables. The reduced serving size minimizes caloric impact and the vegetable source will slow down digestion (think "glycemic load").
6. Limit alcohol to one serving a day. Despite the common knowledge that too much alcohol is bad for you, too many of my female clients load up on bottomless bottles of wine. Do this, and not only will you get a surplus of calories going to your arm fat, but you'll also shut down the fat-burning hormones in your body.
Ok, now you have 6 tips to follow that should make learning how to lose arm fat that much easier. Be patient and change your eating style piecemeal, day by day. If you diet the dirty way, you'll end up crashing!
And remember that trying to get everything perfect in one shot is unrealistic. You will fall off the wagon from time to time. Expect this, and always get back on track as soon as possible.
About the Author:
Writer Katherine Crawford, a Harvard fitness physiologist and recent arm fat sufferer, teaches women how to lose loose arm fat. Discover how to get sexy arms by exploring her blog about how to get rid of flabby arms rapidly right now!
