It is very important to regularly change your exercises, repetitions and your cardio work. This is especially true if what you are currently doing for fat loss in not getting the results you are after. You want to place a variety of demands on your body to ensure that your body is constantly under pressure to loose fat and that it doesn’t get used to the stimulus. Using this approach will help you maintain a steady fat loss.

If you are going through a stage of counting calories, do you weigh and record carefully or do you approximate. Both systems have validity depending on your experience and goals, but is is has been recognised that many people have difficulty in estimating the amount of food they eat. This may mean that you are eating less or more calories than you need to loose bodyfat. Eating less can slow down your metabolism and result in fat gain and eating too much without doing the appropriate amount of exercise can result in fat gain. Either way, it can be the difference between actually reaching your fat loss goals and not.

It is argued that you can exhibit good levels of fitness while being overweight. While this is correct, recent research from the US has found that the health benefits associated with fitness are to some degree mitigated by the excess weight. The study found that although they have a lower risk of heart disease than their sedentary overweight counterparts, active overweight females still have significantly higher health risks than normal-weight active individuals. Although being active (a minimum of 30 minutes of activity most days) is important and does contribute to reduced rates of heart attack in comparison to inactive people, it is unfortunately not enough.