Weight Loss - What Works and What Doesn't

If you've been trying to lose some weight with no luck so far, you may want to review your weight loss approach. There are a lot of tips on the internet but most of them are not anything near helpful.

Today I'm going to bust some myths and list some tips on weight loss and hopefully that would help you lose that stupid stubborn fat in your belly.

First of all, you may need some science behind this whole thing: why you get fat.

I would recommend you watch this article.

TL;DR; 
Your body need a balance in blood sugar to keep your body function.
When sugar in your blood gets high, your body release insulin. And when fat cells see insulin, they turn sugar into fat and store in their cells. When sugar in blood decrease, insulin goes away and when fat cells see that insulin disappears, they release fat and turn fat into sugar so that your body has enough energy to function. That way, your blood sugar is always balance.
When you eat too much sugar, your body release more and more insulin to tell fat cells to store sugar as fat as fast as possible. After a while, fat cells keep seeing a lot of insulin and begin to think that there's something wrong with insulin and refuse to react with insulin. When this happens, your body has no other way to do than to keep releasing more insulin, and the fat cells become even more deaf to insulin.Now what will happen is that there will always be insulin in your blood, which doesn't let fat cells release fat anymore.
And BAM, you've got fat.

Now that you know the science, you would easily understand why the tips below would work or wouldn't work.

What don't work:

1. Training your abs will give you six-packs

This is the most well-known myth on the internet. Training your abs will surely give you abs muscle. But to make those muscle visible, you must first lose all those belly fat that is covering your abs muscle underneath. Moreover, the belly fat won't melt away if you target your training on the abs. The belly fat will melt away when your whole body fat reduce. And your abs will be visible when your body fat reaches 12% or below.

2. Cardio only will make you lose weight

While cardio will burn you a lot of energy in that one hour training session, your muscle will burn your energy in the rest of the day. When you target on cardio and not your muscles building, your muscles get smaller, and hence burn way less energy during the day, which leads to buring less energy in total. Therefore, muscles training does affect weightloss. I've seen a lot of body builder do zero cardio training and still have six-packs

What work:

1. Try to reduce on sugar/carbohydrates as much as possible

While there's maybe some arguments on this, I personally see that cutting down on sugar as much as possible is the way to go. People may think that we need some sugar so that the body can function. But I myself find out that during the day, sometimes I can't fight the temptation to consume some dessert so I would cut down as much as I can on the main diet so that those occasional dessert wouldn't raise the carbohydrate too high.

2. Do muscles training

As stated above, big muscles lead to more fat burning. So don't depend on cardio only, but also pay muscles building the attention it needs.


Final words, by understanding how you get fat, you know how you can lose them scientifically.

If you have any tips or any thoughts on the article, let us know in the comment.

Cheers!