The Law Of Energy Balance And Naturally Losing Fat

If you are not lean enough and want to aim to get a lean body, I believe you'll want to know how to lose fat naturally. People have different reasons for wanting to get leaner. Could be health, fitness, relationships, career or another reason. But it doesn't matter what your specific reason is for your desire to drop the excess fat off your body. The way to achieve any fat loss goal is based on certain fundamental principles that everyone have to adhere to.

The first thing that you should do when you want to lose fat is try to understand the underlying cause of excess fat buildup in the body. The main variable that you have to learn about is calories. They are contained in all foods that you consume and their primary function is to be used up as energy by the body. However, when excess calories are consumed they turn into stored fat.

So to understand fat gain and fat loss you have to understand the law of energy balance. The law of energy balance is scientifically proven, it's not a myth. It states that to lose weight you must consume less calories than you burn daily, to maintain your weight you must consume the same number of calories that you burn and to gain weight you must consume more calories than you burn. So you gained the excess fat that you have because you did not give your body enough time to burn off all of the calories that you consumed at least on some days in your past. Genetics also play a great role in the fat gain process but the energy balance law is universal.

According to the law of energy balance you can reverse fat gain by consuming less calories than you burn daily. This is the fundamental principle that you have to understand to lose fat. It sounds simple in theory, but to put this into practice require proper planning, time and persistence. Creating that negative energy balance by where you allow the body to burn more calories than you are putting in is known as a calorie deficit.

Basically, you can create a calorie deficit in two ways. You can reduce a certain amount of calories from your total daily calorie intake and you can burn more calories by giving the body more work to do so that it can use up more calories. The best way to increase the body's work load for burning additional calories is exercising more than you normally do. So this brings us to our conclusion that you need a diet and exercise plan to create a daily calorie deficit to lose fat.