Understanding Problem Fat Areas

Have you ever wondered why you have stubborn pockets of fat in certain parts of your body. There are three basic ways that the body stores fat.

Structural Fat

Structural fat is good fat as it helps oil your body so it can be lubricated and operate. This type of fat surrounds the joints and the internal organs. It prevents bone grinding on bone and your internal organs from chafing against each other. This is not the fat you want to lose as it is integral to the healthy integrity of your body.

Normal Fat Reserves

This fat is a thin layer of subcutaneous fat that all of us have. This fat keeps us warm, flexible and supple and keeps us from hurting ourselves when we fall.

Problem Fat Reserve Areas

Problem fat reserve areas are spread throughout your body.  They are designed to be a modern survival mechanism.   Once fat is stored in these areas the fat will not be released.  It is the last to go.

Most people discover how stubborn these problem fat reserve areas can be when they go on a diet and exercise program. They lose water, structural fat and muscle mass and still retain these pouches of fat.

That is why sometimes people who are hard core dieters that don't eat much fat tend to have sore and painful joints and feet.  They diet away their good needed structural fat and cause physical stress.

The fact that you can actually diet off the fat you need to keep the structure of your body intact implies that you can cause yourself all kinds of mechanical problems.  You just end up losing the fat where you absolutely can’t afford to – in the structural and subcutaneous areas.  This can result in joint pain and all kinds of problems.

It is crucial to remember that the body needs and requires some fat reserves as they are necessary for survival. These fat reserves are never released, except during pregnancy. This is why in third world countries starving mothers who are calorie deprived still manage to deliver healthy weight babies. Their body is drawing on these fat reserves.

The only other time that the body will release these fat reserves is at the absolute point of starvation. This is how prisoners in concentration camps were able to survive when they were deprived of food.

The bottom line is that you are not fat or obese unless your metabolism is abnormally low.  This causes those uncontrollable food cravings that never seem to go away as well as the storage of fat in those reserve areas where it will never normally be burned off. 

Once you start eating an alkaline, plant based diet devoid of the refined sugars and flours and embark on a regular exercise program you create a protocol for losing this excess fat – quickly, efficiently and forever!

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