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Burning Your Stored Fuel!
copyright 2002 by Greg Landry, M.S.

Imagine that you've got a car with a lot of stored fuel in it's tank (your excess fat).. maybe 50 gallons or so.

Your job is to get rid of the stored fuel (fat) quickly, but you can't suck it out of the tank (no liposuction). What would you do?

Here's what I suggest..

1. Drive your car all around town to burn lots of your car's fuel (exercise to burn your fat stores).

2. Use your car for short little errands you need to do during the day (develop an active lifestyle in addition to exercise).

3. Leave your car's motor running (idling) in the driveway when you're not using it, even at night (your basal metabolism burns calories 24 hours a day to keep your body functioning).

4. Have your mechanic increase your car's idling speed so that it's burning more fuel just running in the driveway (increase your basal metabolic rate so that you burn more calories 24 hours a day - even while you're sleeping. You can do this through daily aerobic exercise and weight training three days per week.)

If you want to lose weight (fat), your job is simply to "burn" your stored fuel (fat), without consuming too much additional fuel (food). 30 to 60 minutes of daily aerobic exercise and weight training three days per week is absolutely critical to your weight loss success! Start your engine!

Author and exercise physiologist, Greg Landry, offers FREE weight loss success stories and his "Fast, Healthy Weight Loss" newsletter at his site: Fitness

copyright 2002 by Greg Landry, M.S.

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