Got a great guest article here from my friend Shaun Hadsall about how to literally
"flip the switch" from burning carbs to burning fat.

And I'll tell you right up front, most people are carb-burners and it's the reason they
have such a hard time losing fat.

If your body is used to burning carbs for energy and you GIVE it carbs for energy all
the time, it has very little reason to dip into fat stores

This is also the reason that when most people go on a low-carb diet for the first time,
they're advised not to operate heavy equipment :)..their bodies don't know how to
use fat for energy and their brain goes a bit whack-a-doodle.

What you've got to do is "flip the switch" and make your body adapt....allowing it
time to create the cellular machinery to process and use fats for energy.

Once you do this, fat loss becomes a WHOLE lot easier.

(btw, if you missed my email comparing Shaun's "4 Cycle Solution" program to my
"Metabolic Surge" program, I've posted it on my site here).

Nick

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How to Flip Your Fat-Burning Switch to "On"
By Shaun Hadsall, author of the "4 Cycle Solution"

As a fitness professional, I'd say that well over 90% of the questions I always get
from most people are, "How to get rid of this stubborn lower abdomen fat"...or
the lower "pooch belly" syndrome.

Unfortunately, almost all conventional "diet" plans that claim to accomplish this
goal use foods that "turn off" our fat-burning genes, which forces your body to
burn sugars and carbs, INSTEAD of fat.

Not only that - people who try these trendy low carb diets claim rapid weight
loss don't have ANY knowledge of whether they're losing water and muscle, or
burning fat.

Here's a powerful example. For EVERY gram of active carbohydrates you consume
on a daily basis, your body will hold nearly 3 grams of water.

Read that last sentence once again quickly so it "sinks" in.

So if you just cut carbs, the scale might trick you into thinking that you're losing
a bunch of weight -- and you are. BUT - it's water weight, NOT fat. Sorry. You're
just dropping a bunch of water.

Now you can see how and why almost every person who tries to deplete carbs
ends up messing up their metabolism and forcing rebound weight gain.

But what if you could make most of that water loss mean fat loss instead?

Well, you CAN.

You just have to make sure that you deplete carbs with the RIGHT foods, at the
RIGHT times, for the RIGHT durations.

And that's where my new 4 Cycle Fat-Loss provides the perfect solution.

This carb cycling system breaks down the "science" of burning lower abdomen
and belly fat into a simple one week nutrition technique called, The 7 Day Carb
Depletion Diet.

Here are 3 methods I uses to deplete carbs and flip your fat-burning switch to
"on", creating a short term MASSIVE calorie deficit and achieving extreme fat
loss WITHOUT damaging your metabolism or suppressing the hormones that
burn fat.

1. Try to consume zero starches or fruits for 3 or 4 days in a row during the week.

This will help accelerate glycogen depletion and get your metabolism ready for
the weekend fun. This should equate to a total of 25 to 50 impact carbs for the
day. Consume protein in every meal to help increase satiety and keep your body
in an anabolic high-energy fat-burning environment.

You'll program your body to burn a ton more belly fat by using this approach a
just a few days of the week.

2. Increase your fats and double your servings of green cruciferous veggies on deplete days.

When you lower carbs you'll automatically need energy from other sources. Friendly
fats and cruciferous veggies should be your go to macronutrients to help provide
this needed energy.

Some good examples to use are extra fish or krill oil, olive oil, coconut oil, grass
fed butter and small amounts of raw nuts for fats -- spinach, kale, broccoli,
cauliflower, asparagus and cabbage are great choices for extra veggies.

This will help provide all the fiber, vitamins, and minerals necessary to maximize
fat-loss during the carb deplete. It will also help you with appetite control.

Additionally, the veggies I listed above contain a unique compounds that help control
bad estrogen inside the body, which will indirectly lead to more fat loss.

3. Double your daily water intake on deplete days and the day after a food binge.

I know this technique isn't appealing or "sexy", but it works.

And most folks simply underestimate how effective proper hydration can be for
UNDOING the damage of over-eating, getting rid of post weekend carb bloat and
facilitating other metabolic processes that burn fat.

Remember, if you cheated this past weekend you'll be holding almost an extra 3
grams of water for every gram of carb you consumed. So if you had a few slices of
pizza, some bread and a bowl of ice cream we're talking an extra 700 to 1000
grams of water sitting under your belly skin.

So here are a few fast fluid facts to help you understand how water can help you
look and feel leaner.

First, the more water you "give" your body, the less it will hold onto. So if you feel
like you're holding water or bloated - drink MORE water.

It will help you look and feel leaner.

A good rule of thumb is to consume 60 - 70% of your total body weight in ounces
of water on your carb deplete days. So if you weigh 150 pounds then you should
be shooting for 100 to 120 ounces of water minimum.

Now you can clearly see why a short-term, science based low carb approach can
work - big time. But make sure you don't abuse the carb deplete day strategies
above or they'll backfire - just like exercise and cheating more is NOT better.

That's why I created the 7 Day Carb Depletion Diet. To make sure you're depleting
carbs for rapid fat-loss the RIGHT way. So when you'll literally feel your lower
belly fat start shrinking in as little as 3 or 4 days.

And best of all, you'll "prime" your body to accelerate your fat-loss even FURTHER
with the Macro-Patterning™ Cycle on the second week by purposely eating MORE
carbs.

All you have to do is pick up my 4 Cycle Solution System at HALF off to celebrate
it's new release and the very next time you tear up the family buffet or eat too
many pieces of pizza, you'll be facilitating the fat loss process instead of blocking it.

And when you take action today, you'll also get my 7 Day Ab "TARGETED" Exercise
Bonus - 100% FREE, which is specifically designed to DOUBLE the results of the 7
Day Carb Depletion Diet.

So you'll visually see your belly get flatter in only 7 days when you combine this
sequence with this 7 Day Carb Depletion Diet (Cycle 1 of the 4 Cycle Solution).

All in only ONE short week.

==> Experience a FULL month's worth of fat-loss in ONLY 7 days (Half Off)

Harness the power of carb cycling and Macro-Patterning™ to experience 7 days
of your FASTEST fat-loss ever:

==> 4 Cycle Solution HALF price + 7 Day Ab "Targeted" Exercises Bonus FREE

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