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Spot reduction is a myth. You can't lose fat from one area by exercising it. Fat loss comes from overall diet and exercise that builds muscle across your whole body.
Spot reduction is a myth. You can't lose fat from one area by exercising it. Fat loss comes from overall diet and exercise that builds muscle across your whole body.
I hate the back of my arms or how do I get rid of the back fat? Or what's up with my stomach? I get those messages all the time about a specific area you want to change on your body. So here's the good news and the bad news around that. Are you ready? Okay, first, the good news. The good news is we can drastically change the appearance of any area of our body. The bad news is we can't isolate and lose fat in a very specific area. It doesn't work that way. So the way fat loss works is when you lose overall fat that will share the distribution of where you lose it. Now, everyone is made up differently. Everybody's body is very different. So where you might lose weight first in your face or your abs, somebody else might lose it first in their arms or their legs, we cannot control that. But you can control losing overall fat, which will make a difference. And you do that by changing your diet, by eating a lot of natural, unprocessed, real foods and not too much, by staying hydrated and really balancing your portions of food, that's how you'll lose that overall fat. Now the good news is we can drastically change the appearance of any area of our body by creating muscle tone in that area. And you do that by resistance training and doing workouts to develop muscle in that area. Then you get a few benefits from that when you develop the muscle. One, your body uses more calories at rest just just by having more muscle. So that helps you burn that fat and lose that overall fat. Plus it drastically changes the appearance of an area so it looks very different. So it's a combined effort of overall fat loss and muscle development. It's not just wrapping an area or isolating an area to burn the fat. It doesn't work that way. So I hope that clears up some confusion about spot reduction. And do you want my meal plans? Do you want to know exactly what I eat? Fat loss? And would you like my workouts? I've got a special offer for you. For just $10, you can try out my full Aging in Reverse membership, community access, my 10 day dive challenge, plus get two of my best meal plans and the best of my workout DVDs, all for a $10 trial. Are you in? Go to AgingInReverse Me and check out that offer.
