Positively Fit

Editor's Note: Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. There's stuff you know. Then there's stuff you don't know. But the key to success in anything is the discovery of one other variable: The things you don't know you don't know. Think about that. So many people ask me questions like... -- How can I get rid of my stubborn body fat? -- How fast can I do it? -- What's the best diet plan for me? These are good questions, don't get me wrong. But there are at least 10 questions most people never know to ask. It's the stuff they didn't know they didn't know... make sense? Today we'll cover 3 of the 10... HIDDEN QUESTION 1: "What's The Best Dietary-Fat To Eat To Get Rid Of Bodyfat?" Sounds nutty, doesn't it? The media loves to deceive you when it comes to dietary fats... and I'm here to set the record straight: You absolutely...

By Tom Venuto www.burnthefat.com You may have heard (or, heh, realized), that it's more difficult for women to lose fat than men. Immediately most people think it must be estrogen or hormonal issues. But perhaps the biggest factor is NOT hormones, but the simple fact that women are usually smaller and lighter than men. When you have a smaller body, you have lower calorie needs. When you have lower calorie needs, your relative deficit (20%, 30% etc) gives you a smaller absolute deficit and therefore you lose fat more slowly than someone who is larger and can create a large deficit more easily. For example, if my TDEE is 3300 calories a day (I’m 5' 8" and moderately to very active), then a 20% deficit is 660 calories, which brings me to 2640 calories a day. On paper, that will give me about 1.3 lbs of wt loss per week, rather painlessly, I might add. If I bumped my calorie burn up or decreased my intake by another 340 a day, that's enough to give me a 2 lbs pe...