Happy Kat's Blog
My name is Katarina ; I live in Sweden and work as site author here at Health to Happiness.
Healthy living is a passion of mine so that is exactly what I will write about in this blog; health, food and workout, (and of course a little about my everyday life and what goes on here at the office).
My ambition is to share inspiration, motivation, tips and information to all of you interested.
If you have any thoughts or questions about the topics covered, don’t hesitate to write a comment and I will do my very best to answer you.
On my free time I enjoy working out, painting, being around friends and family, shopping, reading and travelling.
Happy reading!
If your goal is to lose weight/fat, you should read this… Fat burning is the process needed to eliminate love handles and other unwanted fluffiness. In theory, the fat burning equation is easy. Weight loss (fat loss) happens as a result of expending more calories than you consume. You must create a negative calorie deficit so that your body digs into its stored fat supply as an energy source. If you create a calorie surplus, you gain fat weight as a result. Two ways to create a calorie deficit: Keep in mind: If you diet and restrict calories too much, you actually force your body to conserve and hold onto stored fat as a defence mechanism. To sum it up… To burn more calories you need to move. Moving your body more will force it to burn more calories for energy. 
1. By not eating all the extra calories in the first place. Gradually reduce your calorie intake.
2. By moving your body more so that you expend more calories. Do cardio/aerobics.
The most productive method is by doing both.
As you also lessen the amount of food you eat by eating less often, you slow down your body’s metabolism as well. Once the body’s metabolism is slowed down, the fat burning process slows down as well.
So, extremely decreasing calories is not a realistic approach.
Also, just doing a whole lot of cardio is not a productive approach to fat loss either.
First of all, you risk over training, where your body can’t keep up anymore. Second, it is not sustainable. To be honest, what are the chances you’re going to want to continue running or cycling every day of the week?
No, the best choice is to increase the intensity of your cardio and also reduce your calories gradually.
It can be done, but it’s very tough to lose a lot of weight and keep it off without some form of high intensity movement.
The good news is it only takes about four sessions a week, 20 minutes at a time to really get the fat burning process going. But whatever form of cardio you do, work very hard at it for those 20 minutes.
