Dr Michael Smith presents ways to supplement your diet and exercise program with innovative nutrients to help you maintain a healthy weight. Designed to support any diet and exercise program approved by your doctor, this lecture series video introduces safe steps to successfully burn fat, lose weight, and keep it off.

There is a lot of information available to you on the Internet on how to burn fat; but not all of it is accurate.

You may have tried the most recent fad diets available on the Internet with varying degrees of success. Some allowed you to drop a few pounds; others were not worth the time it took to download. To burn fat and lose weight successfully, knowledge is more powerful than any diet pill or fad diet.

If you want to burn fat and lose weight, you need to learn a few simple ideas.

First, you need to know how your body and your metabolism works when it comes to burning fat to lose weight.

Second, you need to understand how the foods you eat contribute to weight gain or help your burn fat.

Third, you need combine those first two facts with a realistic plan to allow you to burn body fat and lose weight consistently.  And keep that weight off once you have lost it.

To burn fat successfully, keep in mind some simple mathematics. You have to burn more calories than you take in; it is as simple as that. Calories burned through activity and exercise minus calories taken in from the food you eat will determine whether you gain or lose weight.

If you focus on foods that actually burn fat, or foods that burn more calories through digestion than you take in from eating them, you will see a net calorie deficit.  If you burn more calories than you take in, you will lose weight.

So no matter what the newest diet fat is, or how many promises they make, it all comes down to one thing. To lose weight successfully, you need to be burning calories.

To burn fat, you need to know how your body and your metabolism work when it comes to processing food. And you need to know those foods that are “fat burning compatible”; or which foods kick up your metabolism and burn more calories than you take in.

What is a fat burning compatible food? One of nature’s most perfect foods is one you can get everyday at the store; or out in the yard if you’re lucky. An apple is a perfect example of a fat burning compatible (or “negative calorie”) food.

Why? Because a medium sized apple has about 187 calories that your body takes in when you eat it. However, your body will burn about 300 calories simply by digesting the apple you’ve just eaten.

So if you eat a medium sized apple (red delicious, Granny Smith, whatever) you are burning more calories than you are taking in. And there are dozens of regular foods that are fat burning compatible; and they are foods that taste great as well.

So if you learn a new way of eating fat burning compatible foods in a particular combination over a period of five or six days, you can actually burn fat and lose weight simply by eating.

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