Diet Information Guide

Extreme dietary restriction when learning how to lose arm fat is cardinal sin number one. Despite all the \”don\’t starve yourself\” and \”eat six meals a day\” advice, many women are STILL dieting the dirty way. And most women simply do not know how to change their eating patterns in a healthy and sustainable fashion.

But the truth is that such guerilla dieting destroys the body\’s metabolic mechanisms. In other words, it shuts down your body\’s ability to burn off the arm flab. So here are 6 nutrition tips to follow so that your body (and mind) doesn\’t shut down:

1. Don\’t obsess over burning more calories than you take in. We\’re all busy and don\’t have all day to exercise or learn how to lose arm fat. You do not need to do both cardiovascular work and weight training to get rid of your flabby arms. All you need is a short (45 minutes or less) and intense weight training workout that will keep you burning an excess of calories days after.

2. Don\’t keep a journal of every piece of food you eat. You are not a machine, so please don\’t act like one. Do this, and you\’ll end up feeling like a slave. Eventually, you\’ll reach a tipping point and throw in the flabby arms towel.

3. Pay attention to each meal. Instead of micromanaging everything, simply make sure that each one of your meals is balanced. In other words, include a protein, fat, vegetable, and carbohydrate food item in each meal. This is all you have to do.

4. Forget about counting calories. Even worse than the food log, because now instead of pulling out your hair, you\’ll want to jump off a cliff. The whole calorie counting mumbo jumbo is based on an outdated closed thermodynamic model. In other words, the flawed idea that a 3500 caloric deficit produces 1 lb. of fat loss.

5. Don\’t eliminate pleasure foods from your diet. The biggest negatives of pleasure foods are high caloric content and fast digestion. You can minimize both negatives by simply having a slightly smaller portion of the food and accompanying it with a serving of vegetables. The fibrous material of the vegetable will slow down the digestion of the pleasure food substantially and less calories (if any) will go to your arm fat.

6. One alcoholic drink per day. Perhaps it\’s the stress of modern day living, but way too many of my female clients are loading up on booze more often than not. If you drink more than one serving of alcohol per day, your body will greatly reduce its production of arm-fat-melting hormones.

I hope you aren\’t feeling intimidated by the process of learning how to lose arm fat. Changing your eating patterns is not that hard as long as you are patient and take a healthy approach. And now you have 6 key things that will make the change that much easier!

And remember that trying to get everything perfect in one shot is unrealistic. You will fall off the wagon from time to time. Expect this, and always get back on track as soon as possible.

Writer Katherine Crawford, a Harvard exercise physiologist and former flabby arms sufferer, instructs women on how to lose loose arm fat. Learn how to get sexy arms by visiting her blog about how to get rid of flabby arms rapidly now!