Some fatloss boosting methods that may work....

Today's Post: Tuesday, 12-21-2010

All such extra strategies work best in people who are following the basics of:

a) no soft drinks or packaged snacks or commercial desserts, limited use of sugar otherwise, and virtually no foods made from refined grains, no MSG, and little or no use of artificial sweeteners;

b) lots of nonstarchy vegetables and health OK protein foods and some health OK fats and oils and whole fruit;

c) some kind of quite moderate but extremely consistent calorie reduction in addition;

d) and abundant regular exercise most days of every week -- including vigorous exercises such as strength training and interval cardio -- and more moderate exercises such as walking in addition.

If you don’t do those, the extras are likely not enough to do much. But some of them may boost your results from following the basics by 5 to 20 %.

Today’s post has some of these extras that may work for most people or may work for you.

Yesterday I spoke of a possible new strategy to add that is said to help lose belly fat. It’s inexpensive enough I can do it for a month or two to see if it actually helps.

I decided to list it today long with three other methods.

The last method listed is not yet available but is clearly a potential blockbuster! The other strategies are readily available currently.

1. In one study, people who were working to lose fat who added 1 to 2 tablespoons of vinegar daily lost more fat as shown by weight loss AND they lost more inches off their belly fat.

Vinegar is relatively cheap & it’s not that hard to just take like a supplement.

But what may work best is to add it to just a bit of extra virgin olive oil in a salad with green and other nonstarchy vegetables such as diced onion and tomatoes.

So my plan is to try this for two months to see if in my case, it seems to help me lose my loss resistant belly fat.

2. Some people have trouble doing the things that help them lose fat because they are mildly depressed or they find they get hungrier for sweets than they should. One thing that may help such people lose more fat and take action more consistently is to take 50 mg of 5htp before meals &/or at bedtime according to one study I read. (It is a precursor to the calmness and feel mellow compound serotonin. Taking it some studies found increased fat loss and belly fat loss. Wikipedia’s article said that it did test as helping mild depression. It’s certainly a much safer and cheaper solution to taking antidepressant drugs to boost your serotonin levels.)

I don’t have the problems it is said to help and, not surprisingly, I found it to have little effect when I tried it. But if you have the problems it helps, it may help your fat loss.

3. Coconut oil’s “saturated” fat is actually made up of medium chain triglycerides and is said to be burned directly by your body instead of going into storage and to increase your metabolism.

Coconut also is stable in cooking at higher heat. This may mean that some kinds of baking with coconut oil instead of butter may help you lose fat.

Apparently people who eat it or cook with it a few times a week are leaner than people who don’t.

Extra virgin olive oil has the best track record of increasing your heart health and overall health. But it doesn’t work for baking pie crusts very well. And, using coconut oil or shredded coconut or coconut milk – which both have the oil – for a different taste and some variety may actually help boost fat loss.

We once tried a recipe that used diced, skinless chicken breasts with diced ginger root that was peeled and minced garlic that was all simmered in coconut milk.

That was unusually good.

Chilled coconut milk would also work as a substitute for cream in coffee.

Lastly, coconut oil is strongly anti-viral and also anti-fungal. So it may help get rid of things like cold sores and colds. And both eating it and applying it topically may help get rid of rashes and fungus infections of your skin.

4. The last method is not yet available and with good reason. It has not yet been worked out how best to use it or if it is safe to use.

But it’s a potential blockbuster!

Today in several news sources was a story about a study that said that injecting a protein called BMP-7 into deposits of white fat caused the white fat cells to become brown fat cells. Because brown fat increases metabolism and directly burns calories instead of just storing them, this would be a great extra help in losing excess fat.

Since this research was done in mice and not yet in people or even other primates, it may not be effective in people OR it may work but not be safe to use for some reason.

It seems that mice that became obese or really fat easily had little brown fat while mice with more brown fat were seldom obese and were much leaner even when eating similarly. So this could be a huge breakthrough.

My guess is that it will work and be safe to use in people when tested.

If so, it would be a dramatic improvement over stomach reduction surgery of various kinds.

Those things prevent you from having a normal life once they are done. Worse, they have a significant death rate in people who get them and rate of nonfatal but obnoxious complications.

The part that appeals to me most is that it may be possible to do as I’ve done and lose fat all over but little off my belly fat and then get a few shots into your excess belly fat which causes it to gradually disappear!