Diet and exercise both play a major role in fat loss. However, the specific roles of each and their respective contributions to the process remain largely misunderstood by most exercise and healthcare professionals and the general public alike. When the fat loss process is correctly understood and the required principles properly applied the removal of excess fat from the human body becomes a fairly straightforward task. The following article will provide you with the essential information and tools necessary to successfully rid your body of excess fat and dramatically improve your physical appearance.

The Facts of Fat Loss
Within the fields of fat loss and exercise there exists a tremendous amount of misinformation, ridiculous claims, and outright hogwash. The damage is done when the perpetrators of this bogus information con a gullible public. Millions of people have been led astray by erroneous information and frustrated by failed attempts to lose body fat. This is sad because in reality fat loss doesn’t require any magic pills, potions and devices and it isn’t even all that difficult a task.

Misinformed health care practitioners and the charlatans would both have you believe that fat loss requires some magical formula. The facts indicate otherwise. There is only one very basic event that must transpire for fat loss to occur. This one event is a CALORIE DEFICIT. Or, if you prefer a different name, a NEGATIVE NET ENERGY BALANCE. Which by any name you want to choose means very simply that you must consume less calories in a day in food than the total amount of calories your body expends in that same day.

Generically speaking, calories "in" must be less than calories "out". If this doesn’t happen nothing else matters. Furthermore, no amount of hoping and wishing it were so is going to change this. In the absence of a calorie deficit, the type of food you eat doesn’t matter; the relative proportions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates you eat don’t matter; the time of day you eat doesn’t matter; the fact that you ate chicken or fish instead of red meat doesn’t matter; the amount of calories you expend during exercise or activity doesn’t matter; and most importantly, the type and amount of energy substrate (fat or carbohydrate), used during exercise or activity doesn’t matter. Some of the foregoing things may contribute to the creation of a calorie deficit, but none directly cause fat loss. Is there a calorie deficit or is there not a calorie deficit? That is the only question the body cares about.

This fundamental requirement of fat loss is not an opinion, and it is not subject to debate. It is FACT — A fact that is firmly supported by the laws of science.

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