HPC-UK’s Top Tips for Fat Loss; Tip No.3 - Eat The Right Fats

The only fats you need are the essential fats linoleic acid (omega-6) and alpha-linolenic acid (omega-3). Essential fats in amounts that you need will not put on bodyfat, in fact quite the opposite. With the right fats, you’ll get leaner than ever, easier than ever.

Essential fats regulate or play a part in pretty much all of your of bodily processes, a number of which I’ve described in my articles. But suffice to say without essential fats in your diet, your body will never be in an optimal condition to function or stay lean for life.

Other than essential fats, try to limit the fat in your diet, especially hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats and their progeny trans- fats which usually come via processed foods. Don’t become too meticulous here though, just simple things like trimming the excess fat off of cuts of meat. Aim to keep total fats to 15-20% of your daily intake of food, you’ll get more indirectly in your diet, from unseen sources.

To make sure your body is functioning properly don’t forget to ‘Grease the Groove’.

HPC-UK Top Tips for Fat Loss. Tip No.2 - Stabilise Your Insulin

‘Dieting’, skipping meals, low/ no-fat foods, snacking on bars instead of eating, and the sundry other usual methods of the weight loss industry, all trigger a disruption in your insulin metabolism.

Simplified, all of the above methods destabilise your insulin. When you do eat, you get a big insulin burst. Insulin is a storage hormone. It causes your body to store everything. Not only do you store any extra food, but your liver converts all the excess insulin into triglycerides – fat, - and stores that too. So you can cut calories by skipping meals, yet still increase your bodyfat. Keeping a stable balance between the storage action of insulin and the catabolic action of its opposing hormone glucagon is crucial for being lean.

Aim for insulin stability and insulin efficiency. It’s the main way to affect your fat loss ability.

First, eat five to six small meals per day, each containing some low-glycemic carbohydrates, good quality protein and essential fats. HPC-UK clients are advised to eat every three or so hours using a schedule such as 7 am, 10 am, 1 pm, 4 pm, 7 pm, and 10 pm. They never suffer low blood sugar. Nor do they suffer insulin bursts. Their blood shows a stable balance between insulin and its catabolic partner, glucagon.

As the old saying goes ‘The continuous drip polishes the stone.’

HPC-UK Top Tips for Fat Loss; Tip No.1 - Never Put Your Body Into Fat-Defensive Mode

A large majority of people fail to change their bodyfat permanently because, in their impatience to lose fat, they force the body to defend its habitual level of fat. As I’ve shown in previous articles after a few attempts they admit defeat, blame their parents and console themselves with cake. Obviously, people do differ in their inherited tendencies to accumulate fat. But only a very small percentage can blame their level of bodyfat on their genes, in all honesty this isn’t you. We know now that neither the number of fat cells you carry, nor their size, is genetically fixed. For most of us, bodyfat is a reflection of what we eat and what we do.

Once you trigger fat defense with the usual methods, such as skipping meals or reducing calories, eating really odd diets, or special low-calorie packaged meals, you lose the ability to permanently change your bodyfat. There is no way your body can make the required changes because your body is on high alert fat defense all the time. Leave the latest diet fads for the numpties.

If you have been fooled into fad dieting, and have used any of its many different forms for more than six months, you have put your body in terrible shape to lose fat and maintain the loss. Don’t worry though, follow the HPC-UK Tips for Fat Loss, and within one year you will be able to control your bodyfat for life

Remember, ‘Haste Makes Waist’.