How to Burn Fat Quicker

Your body requires a specific number of calories to complete its daily biological functions, and your metabolism is responsible for converting fat into fuel your body can use. If you take in more calories than you need, your body stores the surplus in fat cells located all over your body. Since famine is no longer a concern for most Americans, you may find you have stored more fat than you need. Losing it quickly can be a challenge because your body is genetically programmed to hold on to fat stores. Shedding fat requires a strategic combination of diet, exercise and time.

Step 1

Exercise each day if possible, since burning calories is the key to burning fat. To lose one pound of body fat, you need to burn 3500 calories. Depending on your fat-loss goals, that may translate to burning through 500 to 1000 extra calories per day, which requires serious effort. According to the Mayo Clinic, a 160-pound individual can burn up to 533 calories in one hour of high-impact aerobics. Running between 5 and 8 miles per hour can burn anywhere from 600 to over 800 calories.

Step 2

Build lean muscle by resistance training three to five times a week. Muscle requires more energy to support than fat, so your body uses more calories when you have a higher percentage of lean muscle. You can build muscle by weight training with dumb bells and weight machines at the gym, or you can practice resistance training with your own body weight. Yoga, Pilates, push-ups, pull-ups and squats all use the power and resistance of your own body to strengthen and tone. These exercises can be done anywhere whenever you have a few minutes to spare.

Step 3

Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables along with lean protein and healthy fats, such as almonds and avocados. Leafy green vegetables such as kale and spinach are loaded with vitamins and nutrients in addition to protein and fiber, which will help you feel satiated and avoid overeating. Health and fitness trainer Jennifer Cohen also recommends including more vitamin C in your diet because it is essential in producing carnitine, a substance essential to converting fat into usable energy.

Step 4

You also may use fat loss drugs. In the last few years Clenbuterol (clenbuterol hydrochloride) has replaced Ephedrine as the drug of choice when it comes to fat loss and contest preparation in general. Clenbuterol is used throughout the world as a bronchodialator for asthma patients.  In terms of fat loss, Clenbuterol is what's known as a "repartitioning agent" - an agent that increases your ratio of lean muscle mass to fat mass.

Another attractive quality of this drug is its extremely long half-life in the body which gives it an active life of approximately 24-36 hours. This makes it easy to maintain steady blood levels with a single or twice daily dosing schedule.