Do you know the most phenomenal way to burn fat and become a lean machine?

I used to ask this question over, and over, and over, and over. This vicious curiosity was always in the back of my mind during my days of intense weightlifting and physique focused development.

From an early age, my height played a strong factor in how I began fueling my desire to be bigger, stronger, and more ripped than the  typical man standing at 5’9″. I became hooked on exercise. I was sold on the fact that if I starting looking like a muscular bad-ass then I would finally receive the respect and recognition I was craving.

l used to follow every issue of Muscle Media magazine, scissoring out exercise and supplement write-ups which I eventually began saving in a giant binder. It became my holy grail reference guide. This guide was so chocked full of magazine tear outs, I started having trouble finding specific pages regarding the best way to burn fat or the top three exercises to blast your biceps.

Even though I had hundreds of wellness reference points, I was always wanting more.

I used to be hyper-focused on the fact that there would eventually be another magical finding regarding the best way to burn fat and remaining lean for eternity. When would the next cutting-edge belly fat blasting exercise surface? How long until the next miraculous muscle maintaining supplement showed up?

It took me a hell of a long time to realize that the best way to burn fat does not come from popping a few supplements, being in the gym six days a week, or finding the most amazing abdominal exercises.

The best way to burn fat is to…

• Eat quality food and eat every few hours
• Incorporate metabolic boosting carbs: ripe fruit, root veggies, and honey
• Cook metabolic boosting proteins: gelatin, fish varieties, shrimp, clams, oysters, muscles (shellfish), eggs, organic/raw dairy
• Use metabolic boosting fats: coconut oil, butter, olive oil
• Enjoy coffee in the morning (after you eat or before a workout)
• Boost your thyroid with homemade liver pate one time per week
• Enjoy cheat meals one or two days per week
• Exercise hard, with rest days too (1 hr. 3-4 times per week with intensity)
• Ditch the long hamster wheel type cardio
• Pick a sport or exercise you enjoy
• Get stellar sleep
• Make health and wellness a lifestyle BUT make it fun and doable

Holy Taco Tuesday that’s quite a list! It might seem like a shitload of suggestions, but soak them up one at a time.

Do you find yourself revisiting the vicious thought about which specific suggestion is the absolute best way to burn fat?

After years and years of trying to find the holy grail and the best way to burn fat, I had a lightbulb moment.

There isn’t one specific magic ingredient that will make your body fat go poof!

My 5″5″ height hasn’t changed since my weightlifting days, but my thoughts certainly have. I finally realized that it’s about investing in quality movement and food, creating a consistency of behaviors, and reminding yourself that you are enough.

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