How an Entire Year Can Go By With No Results

By Tom Venuto www.BurnTheFat.com If you’ve been doing the same nutrition, same calories, same cardio, same weight training and the same intensity for the entire past year with no changes, then you shouldn’t be suprised if you’ve continued to get the SAME results (very little).   If you do more of the same, you usually [...]

Top 7 Weight Loss Mistakes

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS www.TurbulanceTraining.com Seven Mistakes People Make When Trying to Lose Fat 1. They fail to consider the consequences of their actions. Alwyn Cosgrove (one of the top trainers in the business) once told me, “I get my clients to think, “Will this help me or not? Is this a positive step [...]

Goal Setting for Fat Loss

By Craig Ballantyne So many people battle with ways to lose fat, but this doesn’t have to be difficult. The single most important part of the process is setting goals. Setting short-term and long-term goals may increase your odds of success. Not only will setting goals keep you on the right track, but it also [...]

The #1 Fat Loss Tip For 2011

by Tom Venuto, Since this is the first Burn the Fat Blog post of the year, I sat down today with the intention of writing a list of the top 10 fat loss tips for 2011, based on everything that we’ve learned from the accumulated experience and new research from the past few years. But [...]

Does Cold Weather Make You Store Body Fat?

by Tom Venuto, Do you get fatter in the cold weather? It’s a good question right now, considering that this year’s farmer’s almanac is predicting a frigid winter. It’s FREEZING here in New Jersey and we just got dumped with 3 feet of snow! Some of my friends up in the great white yonder think [...]

Damage Control For Holiday “Accidents” (Part 2)

By Tom Venuto It’s lunchtime, and you’re trying to decide what to make today. Normally, you would have your regular chicken salad with mixed nuts, but today is different. You’re going to a party in the evening, and even though you’re not quite sure what to expect, you know there will be a ton of [...]

Biggest Loser Feedback

by Lyle McDonald, This piece was originally run in the old newsletter (back when it had content) and I’m re-running it for a couple of reasons today.  The first is that I spent the morning trying to deal with a bronchial infection and it’s faster to re-use something older than write something new.  But the [...]

Complexes 2.0 — Optimize Your Fat-Loss Workouts

If there’s a fat loss buzzword over the past two years, it’s “Metabolic Resistance Training” — which essentially just means using weights to increase your metabolic rate and burn fat like a mofo.  The most bad-ass of all of types of MRT is complexes.  Complexes are fast-paced weight training circuits, the purpose of which is [...]

Suffering from Belly Fat?

by John Romaniello, Like many people, you probably suffer from regional fat storage issues. That is, while you store fat over your entire body, it’s probably most noticeable in certain areas, and it’s from these areas in which we struggle most to lose fat. You know the problem areas. These problem areas are influenced heavily [...]

Avoid This Killer Weight Re-Gain Mistake

by Tom Venuto, If you want to burn off fat and keep it off permanently, there are a few things you absolutely must do, and a new study from Wake Forest University has just uncovered another one… Previous research has concluded without a shred of doubt that high levels of exercise are one of the [...]

Q&A With Tom: Diet Compliance vs Cheating – How Strict Should You Be?

QUESTION: Hello Tom, I’ve been doing BFL for the past year, and did well at first, losing 3 dress sizes and 5% body fat, but then I totally hit a plateau and have had no more results since December. I’m wondering if I’ve been strict enough with my eating I bought your ebook, Burn The [...]

Fighting Hormones with Hormones

by John Romaniello As you’ve may have heard me say before (and if you haven’t, you’re going to hear it now!), when you are breaking through a fat loss plateau or trying to get to the Final Phase of leanness, things get a bit murkier than they do with traditional fat loss. Rather than dieting [...]

3 Hormones you MUST Address for Fast Fat Loss

by John Romaniello It seems like most fat loss programs focus on one main thing: to burn fat, you have to expend more energy than you take in. Such a focus makes sense of course, because if there is a universal truth to fat loss, that’s it. This is what we call “energy balance.” In [...]

Who do You Blame for Being Fat?

Hyo’s note – At first, I thought this article from Live Science was interesting.  Then as I got into it a little deeper, it started to bother me.  The basic premise of the article is that it is not your fault that you are fat.  You can blame it on your folks (mom gets singled [...]

7 Biggest Diet Myths

Hyo’s note – As listed by Live Science, your top 7 dieting myths countdown – Agree or disagree? 7. Juice detoxes, smoothies and diet sodas are effective weight-loss tools. In our hunter-gatherer days, “we didn’t have a lot of liquids with calories, explains Dr. Caroline Apovian, an obesity researcher at Boston University. As a result, [...]