Friday, February 27, 2009

Burn Your Thigh Fat Off Fast With This Approach

By Sarah Josephine Hendrix

Do you have extra thigh fat that you desperately want to get rid of? If so then you are only one of the many millions of people all over the US who have this unsightly problem. There is both negative and positive news to share with you about this issue. The bad news is that there's no easy "quick fix" despite what you may have seen advertised elsewhere. That means there are no diet pills or thigh exercises which are going to magically melt away your thigh fat.

What about the good news? You can get rid of the excess fat on your thighs. The formula is actually quite simple. You must lower your body's percentage of body fat. The fat on your thighs cannot stick around in such a scenario. It will be defenseless! Of course then the question comes up of how exactly you lower your body fat percentage and the answer is to start a diet plan which forces your body to speed up it's metabolism so that it burns more calories so that your body melts away fat at a faster rate.

In order to sufficiently speed up your body's metabolism a diet plan must include two important keys. The first key is that it must include a built-in "day off" from dieting. On this day you can (and must) eat absolutely anything (and everything) that you want. For one day a week you should eat anything you want. Yes that includes cookies, french fries, and glazed donuts. This regular "day off" should not only be recommended, it should actually be required for the diet plan to work most effectively.

This may seem crazy. How could it be possible that eating anything you want can actually help you lose weight faster by boosting your metabolism? Actually it's not crazy at all. It's science. By allowing yourself to eat whatever you want on this one day a week it "tricks" your body into thinking that you are getting plenty of food (too much actually) and this in turn turns the body's metabolism on high so that you burn fat faster. This is the opposite of what happens on starvation diets when your metabolism slows down because your body thinks you are starving to death.

The second key is that the diet plan must not include any sort of calorie counting or food journal keeping. Why? Because such diets are doomed to failure because no one can keep up that sort of thing for very long. Instead you must follow a diet that includes a simple list of foods that you can and cannot eat. For example a "Green Light Foods" list which includes the things you can eat on the other six days of the week other than your "day off."

It's also very important that you do not try to shoehorn in a "day off" into a diet which does not have such a day "built in" as this will most likely backfire. You must start a diet that includes this "eat anything you want day" as a basic component of the diet program. - 16650

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