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While stumbling through my rss feeds and tweets I stumbled upon Tom Gifford guest post at Josh Hillis’ Fat Loss and Fitness.

Post looks at the anatomy of weight loss and the metaphor that it uses is right on the money.

Fire!

Metabolic camp fire to be exact.

We all have a furnace within us, burning calories every day. Every minute and every second.

How many calories we burn and how much fat we lose depends on the size of this fire.

We can

• build a bigger fire or
• kill the fire all together

Building Metabolic Campfire

• Think of Junk Food as wet logs - they don’t burn! Can’t get the fire going if you life depended on it.
• Raw, nutritionally dense, whole foods are like dry logs - fire eats them up, gets bigger and asks for more(there is a reason why we should be eating every 2-3 hours, you know)

It is also a good idea to throw in some ‘lighter fluid‘. That should get the fire going, right?

Lighter fluid, of course, is exercise. High intensity, fun, powerful and engaging.

Throw the lighter fluid on ‘wet logs’ and what do you get? Not a whole lot. Sure it is exciting at first as flames dance around. Wow, you think… but the excitement is short lived. Lighter fluid(effects of exercise) will burn for a minute or too and die out. Wet logs don’t burn.

Throw lighter fluid on ‘dry logs’(proper nutrition) and fire will be roaring in no time. All you have to do now is to throw in some dry logs every two to three hours and you’re good. Big fire, effective metabolism, healthy and happy you.

Getting started and keeping it going

• Get into habit of collecting dry logs(proper nutrition)
• Throw some lighter fluid(high intensity exercise) 3-4 times a week

How is your metabolic fire doing?

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