The basic formula to lose weight is simple: move more, eat less & keep your metabolism up while doing it. How we go about accomplishing these things gets a little more complicated, but in all cases, that’s how it works. Move more to burn calories & strengthen the body, eat less and eat cleaner foods that the body can USE efficiently, and keep your metabolism up by eating enough to keep your body going strong.

Millions of people lose weight each day and can give you every detail about how they did it. But very few would be able to answer the question “where did the weight go?”

So… where does fat go when we burn it off?

Well, it doesn’t really ‘go’ anywhere - rather it gets used. And to understand how that happens, I’ll explain a wee bit more about calories & fat.

CALORIES & FAT CELLS

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