Changing food into fat looks very simple for most people. Shaking them off the body is absolutely easier said than done, and to get done with it, you have only four options:

1. Lessen the amount of food that you eat and maintain an active life
2. Boost your activities and maintain the food intake at an unvarying rate
3. Merge both forces by dieting and exercising at the same time
4. Seek obesity treatment and stop the problems

It may all sound too easy. However, when the number of people accumulating more fat that they can burn continues to increase, obesity becomes a serious disease. At this point, it is important to seek some medical help immediately.

The problem is that many people tend to become “professional dieters.” They peel off pounds with the current fad diet, only to put the weight back on after reaching their goals and return to the habits that made them fat in the first place.

But people cannot just blame their fat on food. In one study of the causes of obesity, researchers found that only 3.2% of obese people became fat because of increased food intake. In 67.5% of the cases, inactivity was associated with the onset of obesity.

Obesity Treatment

Today, there are more obesity treatment methods than there are a few years back. That is why people can make better choices. They no longer have to stick with just one treatment just as what their friends have said so because what worked for their friends may not necessarily work for them.

Treating obesity is a matter of choosing the right approach that will work best for one’s body. Many factors must be considered in order to achieve the best obesity treatment possible.

Obesity treatment strategies may range from the simplest to the most complicated method of therapy. Nevertheless, with the right choice, obese people will always find feasible means to end their woes.

Here’s how:

1. Talk to the expert

Always consult your doctor before seeking any treatment. A good obesity treatment lies on how it will be effective when applied on you. Thus, it is important to consult your doctor to analyze and evaluate your condition and come up with a better form of treatment.

2. Know how much weight you want to shed off

Most failed regimen of losing weight is factored in the tendency of most dieters to lose weight without having an ideal amount of weight to shed off. When experts say they should have a goal, they just focus on that — lose weight.

The point is that in order to identify the correct obesity treatment, it is important that you know how much you really want to lose. From that point, you and your doctor can work together in assessing and evaluating strategies that will work best for you.

3. Assess your problems

It is extremely important to know what brings about obesity in a particular individual. Of course, most people would say that excessive intake of food is the ultimate culprit. What they do not know is that there are various underlying problems causing obesity.

If you tend to eat too much calories and you are not even aware of food labels, the types of food, and the different effects they will have on your body, it is best that you go for a dietary treatment.

If you are living a sedentary life and should be exercising more to burn those accumulated and stored fats, then it is time for you to undergo a serious physical activity.

If you tend to binge on foods whenever you are depressed, behavior therapy is the right approach to lose weight. There are many people these days that tend to eat more whenever they are depressed.

All of these things are focused on helping obese people to lose weight — finally. The point here is that the only problem why obesity seems too hard to combat is that wrong approaches of obesity treatment have been employed.

So the next lose-weight prescription that doctors should recommend in order to treat obesity will now be based on these factors and nothing else.

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I had the pleasure of being interviewed recently by a fitness professional from NYC, Geovanni Derice, of 4evertoned.com. The interview is below and I think you’re going to like it…I reveal some of the hardest hitting strategies for getting rid of body fat to uncover those six pack abs that everyone wants.

“GD: Welcome Mike Geary to 4everToned’s Fitness Journal. For those who do not know you, please tell us a few things about yourself.

MG: Thanks for having me, Geo. Well, to go back a little, I have been heavily involved in fitness and sports for about 15 years now, ever since I was a teenager. Being involved in sports in high school got me interested in strength training and conditioning. At that point, once I started feeling more energetic, getting stronger, and looking better, I was instantly hooked for life. I’m 30 now and still addicted to the way living a healthy and fit lifestyle makes me feel energetic, confident, strong, and youthful on a daily basis. I decided earlier in my 20’s that I wanted to make the commitment to help other people experience the excitement of being fit and getting in the best shape of their lives, especially since we’ve reached an epidemic of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, depression, etc. That’s why I became a fitness professional. It just gives me so much satisfaction to help others, who have struggled for years to get in good shape, and show them that it can be done, and it can be fun in the process. I’ve expanded over the years from just reaching local individuals with personal training, into being able to help people all over the globe achieve their fitness goals with the reach of the internet. I only hope that my passion for fitness inspires people to take action and improve how they look and feel for life.

GD: Now Mike, there’s so many things out there as to what works and what does not work…if you had to pick 3 things that work time and time again to get flat abs, what would they be?

MG: The first and most important thing to get control of in order to get flat abs is cleaning up your diet. Exercise is important, but your diet is king when it comes to losing body fat so that you can see your abs. There’s so much confusion these days about what a healthy diet that promotes fat loss really is…after all, we are bombarded by conflicting messages in the media about what is healthy and what is not, and you have all of these gimmicky diet books about low carb, low fat, high protein, vegetarian, fasting, atkins, south beach, liquid diets, and hundreds more. There’s so much conflicting info, that the average consumer doesn’t even know where to start when it comes to eating for fat loss.

The second thing that works time and time again, is to focus on the intensity of your workouts and focus on working the body as a whole in order to get the best metabolic response to lose that stubborn body fat. In order to really get lean, the workouts should have a high intensity, with short rest periods, working the largest muscle groups of the body, instead of trying to isolate specific small muscles like the biceps, triceps, or calves.

For the third thing, let’s talk about actually training the abs specifically. When it comes to training the abs, if you want real results, I always recommend forgetting about the crunches and situps for the most part. They are ok for someone that is really deconditioned, but most people that already have some training under their belt need a much better stimulus for their abs than crunches. Crunches are one of the abs exercises that actually provide the least amount of resistance, and remember that resistance is what develops and tones the muscles. I provide a ton of great abs exercises in my book, but one of THE highest resistance exercises for the abs, is hanging leg raises (but NOT the way you see most people at the gym doing them). The key to doing these and actually working the hell out of your abs is to curl your pelvis up as you raise your legs. Almost nobody ever does this right. To be honest, the majority of people cannot do this at first, but I provide some strategies in my book as to how to progress to doing these correctly.

GD: What are people doing wrong when it comes to developing the coveted “6 pack abs”?

MG: Well Geo, I know this sounds funny to most people, but the MAIN thing that people are doing wrong to get those 6 pack abs is…are you ready for this? They spend entirely too much time focusing on training their abs! Sounds crazy, but it’s true. Remember, having a visible six pack of abs is all about getting down to a low body fat percentage. In order to do that, your workouts must focus on stimulating a fat burning hormonal environment in your body, and increasing your metabolic rate. That just does not happen when you focus too much time training a small muscle group like the abs. Instead, you must use the majority of your time focusing on training the largest muscle groups of the body like the legs, back, and chest. That’s what stimulates your metabolism and the fat burning hormones that will get you truly lean and sporting a sixxer!

GD: Which exercises are the top exercises that people need to do if they are to get maximum defintion with their midsection?

MG: When it comes to developing the abs themselves, I again refer to any kinds of hanging abs exercises, as well as some good floor exercises like lying leg thrusts (all described and illustrated in my book). However, maximum definition in the midsection comes from losing bodyfat, and the most effective exercises featured in my program for that goal are various forms of swings and snatches (unique dumbbell or kettlebell exercises that almost nobody ever does in normal gyms), squats, deadlifts, lunges, step-ups, clean & presses, mountain climbers, sprinting, and other full body exercises and calisthenics. If you want great looking abs, focus on those instead of focusing so much on training the abs directly!

GD: When it comes to diet Mike, people really have tried millions of ways to get one thing…and that is fat loss. What recommendations have you used to successfully help your clients lose fat and keep it off?

MG: I have included a fully comprehensive discussion of this topic in my book, which accounts for almost half of the book, but I’ll try to make some nice simple generalizations to get people started on the right path immediately. The most important thing is that your diet is as natural and unprocessed as possible. It almost always comes back to the overprocessing of food that makes it unhealthy, and makes it totally wreck your metabolism and hormone balance in your body. For example, why eat refined grains, when you can eat whole grains. Why eat refined sugar, when you can get natural sources of sugar from a high nutrient whole food like fruit. Why eat highly processed, refined, and hydrogenated vegetable oils (these are THE worst thing in the modern diet), when you can eat natural sources of healthy fats like nuts, avocados, fish, eggs, coconut milk, organically raised meat, and so forth. The point is to not fall for some gimmick like low carbs, low fat, high protein, or any other combination that has you focusing on one macronutrient vs. another. Your body needs all macronutrients to thrive and obtain a variety of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc. Trying to cut an entire food group out just works against what your body needs. I get into much more detail on this vitally important topic towards losing body fat for life in my book.

GD: Thank you very much Mike for sharing with us all of this great information. For more info on Mike Geary and his internationally popular Truth about Six Pack Abs book, please be sure to visit his site below. Remember 6-7 weeks from now, summer will be here, and if you wait until then, I’m afraid to tell you, but it will be too late!”

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