There is an obesity epedimic in the U.S. today. It has even attracted the attention of many top governemnt officials. Many people want to know the best way to lose weight. Thanks to the age of free and easy information, available in the Internet, on TV, and in books and magazines, weight loss information is all too easy to find. Unfortunately, much of it is confusing, innacurate or both, such as the prolific low fat diet advice. In the end though, there is only one way to lose weight, burn more calories than you use every day.

The answer that most people are looking for in this busy day and age is how to do that without redoing their entire daily routine. Fortunately , there are many things you can do to help lose that excess weight . If you're really serious you want to know the fastest way to lose weight with the minimum effort.

You may think you could just cut way back on your eating and the pounds would melt away. Indeed, that strategy will work  well in the beginning, but for the long term your body would fight back. The human body is a wonderful thing, with an amazing capacity to adapt. It would see the sudden decrease in calories as a starvation danger. As a defence mechanism, it would just cut way back on your metabolism. Form that point on , you'd just be condemned to being on a horrible diet forever and your weight loss would slow down to almost nothing.

If just being on a highly restrictive diet isn't the way to go for weight loss, what is?   While the proper diet is certainly part of the equation , many people err on the side of too few calories when trying to lose weight. That kills their efforts in two ways. First it is hard for all but the most disciplined to stay on such a diet for any length of time. Second, even if you could manage to stay on it, eventually your metabolism would just slow down and then so would your weight loss.

There are a couple of simple rules that will let you still eat many delicious meals, but have you losing weight fast. First, there are certain foods that you have to avoid, and sadly they are present in many, if not most of the foods people eat every day. There is a huge variety of other foods available, but too many people are conditioned to eat nothing but fast food, and easy to prepare frozen and fried foods.

One of the most effective ways to get fat is to eat simple sugars that cause a rapid rise in blood glucose levels and subsequent fat storage. The simple way to avoid this is to forgo three things; white flour, refined sugars, and white rice. While this is an oversimplification, following this simple rule will go a long way toward stripping the fat from your body.

You'll have to read the ingredient list on the food packages. There are many different kinds of sugar you may find there. If it ends in “ose”, such as sucrose or glucose, that means it is sugar. The nutrition label will also list the grams of sugar on the back of the package. Note that single ingredient foods like fresh fruits and vegetables need no such label.

Sticking to whole foods that are minimally processed is another way to to eat a diet that will keep off the fat. Combine that advice with eating 5 small meals a day instead of two or three large ones and you'll be well on your way toward losing weight. Eating more meals allows your body to better absorb the nutrients from your food and the lower calorie count of each meal makes it less likely the excess calories will be stored as fat.

You have to combine the right diet with the proper kind of exercise. Many who exercise to lose weight get stuck doing endless hours of cardio, trying to stay in the “fat burning zone” . While that will certainly burn off the fat, do you really want to spend hours in the gym doing grueling cardio sessions? Probably not, especially of there is a better way.

Stop doing those hour and 2 hour steady state cardio routines immediately and change to something that works in less than half the time. Research has discovered that you actually burn fat more effectively by doing high intensity interval training. Doing such a routine means that you'll work out harder, but actually spend much less time exercising, and that's a great thing.

If you want to use the most effective weight loss routine you first combine some quick fat burning exercises with high intensity interval cardio training. The exercises are primarily compound movements that involve most of the major muscle groups. These  include the power clean, bench press, squat, and dead lift.

You can do a very effective muscle building and fat burning routine with these exercises that works great that takes only 20 minutes. You can do this twice a week and get great results. They key is to use maximum effort, after a thourough warm up. In fact, they have the effect of increasing the basal metabolic rate, so you will continue to burn more calories and fat 24/7, weather you're sleeping, watching TV, or playing softball. That is why they are so very effective. This has actually been verified by researchers by measuring exercise post oxygen consumption (EPOC), which shows how hard your body is working after you stop exercising. The EPOC can stay elevated for 12 plus hours following a HIT workout, compared to maybe 1-3 hours for a traditional cardio session.

The high intensity interval cardio training (often abbreviated HIT) means that you'll work at approximately 95-100% of your maximum capacity, instead of  the 65% that you would use for tradition fat burning cardio workouts. Instead of working continually for 30 minutes to an hour at the traditional levels, you will maintain the 95-100% level for about 30-45 seconds, then rest for about 2 minutes. Perform 8 of these exertion cycles. You may have to work up to this. If you are truly using maximum exertion, the fact that the exertion period measures only 45 seconds will not matter. That short time interval will be more than sufficient. 

Be sure to warm up first at about 50% intensity for about 10 minutes before you begin the HIT program. Note that your total time spent actually exercising is only about 5 minutes using the high intensity training, yet it actually works far better.

Combining these simple diet and exercise strategies are very effective. In fact, they are the best way to lose weight, and if you've been trying to lose weight for years without success, try it now. You'll be amazed at the difference. For more powerful strategies, tips and tricks to help you lose weight, check out How to Lose Belly Fat.