L-carnitine, taurine, choline, inosine, lecithin, pyruvate, glucagon, methionine, nitric oxide, linoleic acid, creatinine, etc. are just a few of the many fat burners or fat burners that we can find on the market today. How do they sell it to you? One of the common fat burning ads is usually similar or similar to this:
«With this fat burner, don't worry about what you eat, you can eat any type of food. You will see your weight reduced by between 1 and 2 kilograms per week, just with the intake of two capsules of this fat burner a day ».
And no, they are not exactly cheap. Needless to say, as in all kinds of products, there are good ones (more effective) and there are bad ones (totally ineffective for burning fat). Here in this article we are going to ignore the ineffective ones and we are going to talk about those that are useful and that do really serve to burn excess body fat.
The ad we "copied" earlier is what amounts to the first commonly told lie about fat burners. Why?
- Because you will not lose weight by eating everything you want and in the amounts you want, even if you take those fat burners.
- Because to burn fat you have to move yes or yes, if not the fat remains stored and is not destroyed.
Therefore, What is the true function of a good fat burner? What the fat burner does is break down body fat into smaller particles. This involves releasing it from fat cells, where it enters the bloodstream as free fatty acids. These free fatty acids are then transported to the muscle cells where they can be burned, of course, with movement and therefore a daily exercise routine.
There are no pills or "miracle" diets. If what you want is to lose weight, lose fat and tone your body, this is what you have to do:
- To eat a balanced diet. Do you remember the food pyramid? In that pyramid it was said how much of what food we had to eat over the course of a week. Apply it! It is as simple as that.
- Drink at least 2 liters of water. Despite what is believed, water does not make you gain in fluids, but it helps you detoxify your body and improve your digestion, correspondingly eliminating waste substances.
- Move on! Daily exercise is what will get rid of those excess fats from your body. If you are "lazy" to play sports, we assure you that it will only take you a couple of weeks to get used to it. Then your body will need it as much or more as feeding, promised! You just have to find a type of training that not only helps you lose weight and tone your body but also that you like and that motivates you daily to continue in it.
- If you like sweets a lotFor example, have that food as a small weekly "reward". Let me explain: as you well know, sweets cannot be consumed daily, due to their high fat content. Well, we are going to use this food that we like so much to give ourselves that weekly whim, as long as we have complied with the rest of the steps mentioned above. That is to say: we have eaten a healthy and balanced diet, we have drunk our two liters of water daily and we have gone to exercise daily or almost daily. If all this has been fulfilled, eating that little sweet on Saturday or Sunday (just one, no overdoing it) will give us energy and motivation to keep going.
When should we take the fat burners?
Given all the above, surely you are wondering when we have to go to the fat burner then. Well, when we have been doing all of the above for a month and a half or two months (correctly and on a daily basis) and we see that we no longer stagnate in weight loss (this is very relative because possibly with daily exercise we gain in muscles) but in the loss of body volume, it is when will we turn to that fat burner.
The fat burner, as we said earlier, will "break down" the fat into smaller particles that will be transported through the blood to the muscles. With daily exercise, and therefore, with the movement of those muscles is how we will best eliminate excess fat.
Therefore, and as a last point to be recorded: Fat burners are useless if you don't exercise daily. That is in turn its main myth and its great truth.
Recommendations and advice when taking fat burners
From The Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (SEEDO) it is recommended to avoid the following:
- Never follow drug treatments without official registration or in which its quantitative and qualitative composition is not specified.
- Remember that the thyroid hormone It is not used to treat obesity and, in addition, it favors the consumption of proteins and reduces bone calcium, accelerating osteoporosis.
- Avoid using compounding formulas (miracle capsules) in which different compounds are mixed, such as thyroid hormone, diuretics, amphetamines, laxatives, horsetail, etc.
- It has been shown that the use of gonadotropins, diuretics and laxatives has no indication in the treatment of obesity.
- Cheap is expensive. Its health dangers are many: depression, psychosis, anxiety, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, renal fibrosis, thyrotoxicosis, and so on. In addition to the dreaded "yo-yo effect."
- Forget fast diets. Most work at the cost of body water and muscle mass, not fat. Their success lies in the promise of weight loss without dieting and without changing habits.
Remember that first of all the most important thing is your health, so do not play with it. All abuse, in the long run, takes its toll.