Melt Away the Inches & Look Great Naked: 3 Exercises :

Honestly -- you really can lose inches. It’s not marketing hype, and it’s not based on some strange supplement or magic formula. It’s grounded in physiology.

I recently gave a presentation at an eDiets member seminar in Florida and discussed some of the myths and truths related to fat loss. Nothing I promoted promised a quick fix or fantasy machine that has one achieving a fabulous body in six minutes a day. If you’re looking for a quick fix or magic pill, you’ve come to the wrong place. However, if you want the truth about losing inches and looking lean, then stay right where you are and keep reading.

Several months ago, an eDiets employee told me how happy she was because her clothes were fitting loose. She was ecstatic that she had lost inches all over her body (yes, including her thighs, butt and love handles); however, the scale had not gone down!She went on to tell me that when I originally told her how to lose inches, although she respected my opinion, she just couldn’t seem to buy into it. Guess what? She’s a believer now. She knows scale weight will drop in time, but that losing inches and a few dress sizes while maintaining the same weight has an almost magical quality to it.

I want to first explain some things about muscle versus fat and then provide the solution. I promise to keep this short and simple to understand.

If you’ve ever compared one pound of fat to one pound of muscle, you would have found that the fat was much larger in size and volume compared to the one pound muscle. The one pound of muscle may have appeared to be the size of a small compact tennis ball where as the one pound of fat may have been significantly larger in size and actually resembled a blob of cheese Jell-O.

That alone tells us that muscle takes up less space on the body compared to fat.

For every pound of muscle you gain, the body burns 30-50 additional calories per day. If you gain 5 pounds of muscle, that’s 91,000 additional calories per year that you’re burning.Increasing muscle helps to burn fat, stokes the metabolism, increases bone density and makes one look more pleasing to the eye. When fat is decreased on the body and slight muscle gains take place, it creates a more fit and symmetrical look.

I can hear the screams now, "yes, but I don’t want to get bulky -- I don’t want to look like a bodybuilder." Who says you have to? Testosterone is the main hormone for making major increases in muscle. A woman has approximately one third the testosterone compared to a man. So, you have nothing to worry about.

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