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Is sex a good way to burn calories? How many calories does it really burn? |
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Check the activities page on the site. We have multiple listings to choose from that will give you accurate information based on your weight and gender. |
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I'm taking a "fat burner" to try to speed up my weight loss. How do I track how many more calories I burned or does it even make a difference? |
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First, we don't recommend that you take "fat burners". They are unregulated and can be very dangerous to your health! In fact, just this week, a professional baseball player who evidently was utilizing the stimulant ephedera died. Plus, the extra calories you burn during the day from the stimulant are just temporary. You can't take the supplement the rest of your life, so when you stop taking it your body will slow again and you will probably gain the weight back. There is no way to quantify how many extra calories your supplement is burning each day so stick with what your natural metabolism burns--and exercise to burn more. |
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I usually skip breakfast? Is this bad? |
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If your question is referring to weight loss, yes. One of the best natural calorie burning tools you have is your digestive system. It takes 6-8 hours to absorb and fully digest a meal. This requires a ton of energy (calories burned). If you eat dinner at 7:00 pm, your digestive track will be functioning until around 3:00 am. Now if you get up and eat again a few hours later the whole process starts over. But, if you don't, two things will occur. First, your digestive system will lie dormant until you eat again, probably a full 9 hours later. This causes you to lose a large part of you basal metabolic rate (the amount of calories your body burns on its own). Second, your body thinks it's starving and will slow the rest of your metabolism down as a survival instinct. The end result is that you burn fewer calories naturally, making it harder for you to lose weight. |
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Is alcohol bad for losing weight? |
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It can be. For more information, check out our article entitled Alcohol's Effect on Losing Weight". |
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I'm trying to lose weight. Is fast food bad? |
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It depends on what kind of fast food you eat and how often you eat there. Fast food is typically high in calories and low in nutrition. But, quite a few fast food chains are incorporating healthy menus. Balance is the key here. If you love fast food and can't live without it, then learn how much of it you can eat and still lose the weight you want. Fatburn.com will help. We have a large database of fast food restaurants that will give you the information to make educated decisions. Under the "Find a food icon" available to fatburn.com members, simply type in a restaurant name like McDonalds, Baja Fresh, or Taco Bell, and that restaurant's entire menu and corresponding nutritional information will appear. Check it out! Thanks for the question. |
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