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T he Top 10 Fat Burning Fat Loss Foods www.bodybuilding.com What does a guy with 3.7% body fat eat? Anytime the topic of discussion in my blogs, articles or newsletters has turned to my own personal grocery shopping list, there has always been a spike in interest. It seems that many people are not only curious about what foods a natural bodybuilder eats to maintain single digit body fat, but they also want to be taken by the hand and told exactly what foods to eat themselves while on fat-burning or muscle building programs. That's why I've created 4 separate "top 10" lists of healthy weight loss foods to feed your muscle and burn fat. Of course, I can't tell you what YOU should eat because I don't know your likes and dislikes, not to mention whether you have any intolerances, allergies or foods you don't eat for ethical reasons, etc. What I CAN do is show you what I eat, which has helped me keep my body fat under 10% all year round and...

The Top 3 Tips For Rapid Fat Loss At Any Age: Advice From The New Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle Champion. If a guy dropped 23 lbs, burned off 8.1% body fat and cut 5.5 inches off his waist... IN ONLY 49 DAYS.. becoming a body transformation contest winner... at age 52...wouldn't you want to know how he did it? I wanted to know how he did it, and so did thousands of our readers, customers and inner circle members, so I grabbed Gary Vollhoffer, winner of the most recent Burn the Fat Challenge transformation contest, earlier this week and got him to spill the beans on how he burned so much fat in so little time... Here's what I asked him: "Gary, when you think back to what you did to get your winning Burn the Fat Challenge results, what were the most effective strategies in each of these areas, that you think were the most important of all in allowing you to get such rapid results: 1) mindset, 2) nutrition and 3)training, and 4) feel free to add any other random...

Metabolic Damage: Why It Happens, How to Avoid It and How to Fix It. Somewhere in your fitness travels (or random googling), you may have come across the topic of “ metabolic damage ” or its close relative, “ starvation mode .” Perhaps both. If so, you probably felt a twinge of fear after hearing a description like this one: star•va•tion mode - noun (stär-ˈvā-shən mōd): a series of metabolic, hormonal and behavioral responses to extreme or prolonged calorie deprivation, which is common during many popular weight loss diets. Since your body can’t recognize the difference between severe dieting and starving, it responds as if you were really starving: Protective mechanisms are activated to decrease your rate of further weight loss, including reduced energy, lower physical activity and increased appetite. Your metabolism also slows down more than you’d predict for the amount of body weight lost. As you self-diagnose your symptoms, you really begin to worry: low energy… hungr...

How Bodybuilders and Fitness Models keep a Low Body Fat . QUESTION : "Tom, on your www.burnthefat.com website, you wrote: 'Who better to model than bodybuilders and fitness models? No athletes in the world get as lean as quickly as bodybuilders and fitness competitors. The transformations they undergo in 12 weeks prior to competition would boggle your mind! Only ultra-endurance athletes come close in terms of low body fa t levels, but endurance athletes like triathaletes and marathoners often get lean at the expense of chewing up much of their lean muscle." There seems to be a contradiction unless I'm missing something. Why do bodybuilders and fitness competitors have to go through a 12 week 'transformation' prior to every event instead of staying 'lean and mean' all the time? If they practice the secrets exposed in your book, shouldn't be staying in great shape all the time instead of having to work at losing fat prior to every compet...

Slow Metabolsm? Is Your Metabolism The Reason You're Not Losing Weight? QUESTION:   Tom, we all know people who eat recklessly yet are very lean. My ex-husband seemed unable to put on ANY bodyfat whatsoever. At first I credited that to him being a very active athlete. But after spine surgery, he had to stay home for a year, did nothing but lay on the couch all day, play video games and eat his head off. He STILL didn't gain a pound! I know more men like this than women, but I do know a few women who seem "blessed" with naturally slim figures, even though they don't watch their diet or exercise. On the other hand, we all know individuals who seem "cursed" and will tend to pack on weight even with a reasonable diet. So here is my question: those real life examples seem to strongly demonstrate a wide gap in metabolism between individuals. Do you accept and acknowledge that? I strongly believe that I have a "slow metabolism" ...

Carb Cycling: Can This Old Bodybuilder's Trick Increase Your Fat Loss? Q: Tom, I've been following your  Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM)  program and using the carb cycling (aka zig zag) method. How long should it take to see results from cycling the carbs? I am just on my fourth day but I am curious as to what to expect. I am starting out with the basic guideline of 3 days low 1 day high and the macronutrient ratios suggested in BFFM. I am wondering how long to give it before knowing if I have to tweak the ratios. I am 5"2" and weigh 124 lbs. My beginning weight, 22 months ago, was 176 lbs. Now I'm trying your carb cycling method to shed the last of the stubborn fat that's "hanging" around. A:  Carb cycling has been a "secret weapon" fat loss trick of bodybuilders for decades. It's one of my personal favorite methods as well. It Works! However, what carb cycling can and can't do and how to use carb cycling most effe...