Lee Labrada's Tips for Losing Body Fat: Lose Body Fat, Not Your Mind!

•Eat five to six small meals per day. Every time you eat, your metabolism is stimulated, especially when your meals contain protein. Frequent feeding also eliminates over eating, helps in the management of insulin levels (read, “keeps blood sugar steady and insulin levels low”), and provides a steady stream of muscle nourishing amino acids and nutrients. Each meal should contain protein, carbs, and fat in the same ratio as the overall daily ratio of protein, carbs, and fat. A good meal replacement like Lean Body is an ideal way to ensure compliance with a rigorous 6 meal per day program.

•Train with weights, but of course, you are already doing that, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this!

•Be consistent. Dieting for fat loss is not an on again, off again thing. For your program to work, you must be consistent with it. This is where discipline comes in. You must want to lower your body fat strongly enough to stick with your program. Set short term and longer term goals, and measure your body fat composition to gauge your progress and give yourself that invaluable feedback that is necessary to keep you motivated. Unfortunately, they don’t sell willpower in a can yet!

This program comprises the “real deal” that I spoke about before. Exercise and good nutrition are the only way to lower, and more importantly control, body composition and keep body fat in check over the long haul. Simple, powerful, and effective! Of course, there are more details to a complete body fat reduction/management program , but these are the most powerful ideas, and they should serve you well as a foundation to build on.

For a step-by-step, “no-brainer” program to follow in “connect the dots” fashion to achieve and maintain fat loss while preserving lean body mass, please take a look at my Get Lean Kit, which I co-authored with world renowned sports nutritionist Keith Klein.

About the Author

Lee Labrada, is a former IFBB Mr. Universe and IFFB Pro World Cup winner. He is one of few men in history to place in the top four in the Mr. Olympia seven consecutive times, and was recently inducted into the IFBB Pro Bodybuilding Hall of Fame. Lee is President/CEO of Houston-based Labrada Nutrition.