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How to Reset Your Body to Burn Fat

Our bodies have developed the capability of storing extra calories as fat for later use when resources are scarce. Thousands of years ago, this was an incredibly important function. Primitive man would have been able to easily tap into stored energy reserves (known as metabolic flexibility).

Fortunately, in the modern, western world, those scarce times never appear.

However, ultra-processed foods and snacking culture have become the norm, and we have become dependent on the sugars in food to fuel us through the day, forgetting about our body’s natural ability to tap into our stored reserves. Every time we have that mid-morning snack, we create a blood sugar spike, which causes the hormone insulin to be released. Excess insulin prevents us from being able to tap into our stored fat. In the short term, this means peaks and troughs of energy, persistent hunger and “hanger” when we miss a meal. Long term, this can lead to type 2 diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. Eating ‘little and often’ or ‘grazing’ has become the social norm with the myth that it keeps the metabolism firing. Unfortunately, we are encouraged to snack in between meals by companies who create “food-like” products which are cheap, nutrient sparse, and highly processed. You can retrain your body to tap into stored energy reserves and improve your metabolic flexibility. RESET your body to burn fat with my FREE Intermittent Fasting Short Course

What is Metabolic Flexibility?

Metabolic flexibility is responding or adapting to conditional changes in metabolic demand.

This broad concept has been propagated to explain insulin resistance and mechanisms governing fuel selection between glucose and fatty acids (body fat), highlighting the metabolic inflexibility of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

What does this mean?

Put simply, it’s your body’s ability to utilise every available fuel source, rather than being dependent on a constant influx of food.

Long-term metabolic inflexibility can lead to metabolic disease.

Intermittent Fasting can effectively improve your metabolic flexibility and increase the chances of tapping into stored energy reserves.

How to Reset Your Body to Burn Fat

Start with a 12-hour overnight fast.

In my opinion, most people would benefit from extending their overnight fast by a few hours. Many people around the world will, at best, go 8 hours without eating (whilst they are asleep). This is not in line with our circadian rhythms (body clocks), and it can cause issues with appetite control, energy levels, and digestion, and it can even improve your sleep quality!

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I advise all my one-on-one coaching clients to incorporate a 12-hour overnight fast; for example, finish eating at 8 pm and start eating at 8 am. This is nothing extreme, and I believe that most people can do this with few side effects.

Eat nutrient-dense meals until you are full.

This may be radical to some of you reading this, but trying to calorie restrict, eating little and often throughout the day will prevent you from tapping into stored energy reserves. In my experience as a coach of 10 years, it will lead to an overconsumption of calories and leave you wanting food all day long.

Eliminate Snacks

Snacking culture has got completely out of hand. In the past 20 years, we have gone from the social norm of eating three square meals daily with nothing in between to eating up to 8 times a day. This is having a negative effect on calorie control, energy levels, focus, mood and overall health. If you are eating nutrient-dense meals, eating until you are full, YOU DO NOT NEED TO SNACK!

Learn to eat when you are hungry

One of the most powerful benefits of Intermittent Fasting is its ability to get you to recognise different hunger triggers and make informed decisions about whether or not they warrant eating. ‘Perceived’ hunger can be brought on by many queues: emotion, boredom, routine, habit, and environment.

None of these necessarily mean you should eat.

Real hunger occurs every 16-24 hours, not every 3 hours.

Understanding that having an empty stomach is normal and you can function optimally without the need to digest food is empowering constantly.

Try my 30-Day Reset

I will guide you through a process which will reset your body to burn fat WITHOUT any of the negative side effects. Lose 5-10lbs in 30 days without calorie counting or cutting out the foods you love. A byproduct of burning fat is improved energy levels and reduce hunger. Best of all, what you learn in 30 days is sustainable in the LONG TERM. So you never need to diet again.

Does fat burning mean fat loss?

Not necessarily. You must combine turning your body into a fat-burning machine with a sustainable calorie deficit of around 500 calories (depending on the individual). The combination of your body behaving the way it should, with a small calorie deficit, can mean effortless fat loss without constant hunger.

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If you fail to address your body’s metabolic inflexibility and the changes in hormone issues that goes alongside it, you can expect to find staying in a calorie deficit much harder. This is my opinion, having coached 1000s to achieve sustainable fitness and fat loss results over ten years, and it may anger some of you reading this who believe that all that matters is the “calorie deficit”.

A Way of Life

It can take time for your body to get used to this way of eating, and it may be difficult for some of you. There is a transition period where your body goes from being a sugar burner to a fat burner. This period is different for everyone but can take between 2-7 days. Once you burn fat for energy, you will quickly reap the benefits of stable energy levels, feeling “real hunger” (every 12-24 hours), dropping body fat, and not being a slave to hunger. This is empowering because you become completely self-sufficient. Not only will you lose weight, but you will also be FULL of energy all day long, no longer reaching for caffeine or nicotine or sugar to get you through the day. Most surprisingly, you will feel less hungry. Fasting teaches you to tune into your body. You will start to understand what “Real” hunger feels like, which occurs every 16-24 hours, not every four hours. Again the best way to reset your body to burn fat without the negative side effects is to try my 30-Day Reset.

A Final Note on Fat Loss

For long-term, sustainable fat loss results, you must take a deep look at your habits, behaviours, mindset and beliefs about yourself and the world around you. Generic fat loss and fitness plans will not consider these. You may have gotten results whilst following instructions but returned to your existing behaviour once you finished. If you would like to learn more about how to get sustainable fitness and fat loss results click here.

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