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TRAINING YOUR BODY TO BURN FAT

Fat cells are the storage bins of the extra energy (digested food) not used by the body. To reduce their size, the body must use the stored fat. The muscles always burn a combination of sugar and fat. When your exercise is aerobic (walking, jogging, swimming, etc.), you are burning mostly fat. When it is anaerobic (sprinting, tennis, weight lifting), you are burning mostly sugar. If your main goals are to burn calories and reduce body fat, aerobic exercise is the answer. In addition to burning fat, it will train the muscles to burn mostly fat for fuel all the time. 

Researchers recently have found that overeating will decrease the ability of the cells to release fat during exercise. Hormones, such as adrenaline, send messages to the fat cells to release fat during exercise. However, adenosine, another hormone, tells the cells to hold onto their fat. Exercise helps the fat cells to ignore adenosine. The most current research indicates that while exercise encourages the fat cells to ignore adenosine, overeating reduces the ability of the cells to do this. Therefore, the fat cells stay fat. In order for the body to give up fat from the cells more easily, it is important to stay on a restricted diet that eliminates overindulgence, inappropriate food choices, or self-reward of food after exercise.