Everybody is different. Everyone has a different metabolism and body chemistry. What works for you may not work for the next person. You probably know people who can eat whatever they want and never gain an ounce. You probably also know other people who eat the very same food and it goes straight to their hips or their butt or their belly. Everybody responds differently to foods. Everyone needs different types and quantities of proteins, carbohydrates and fats to cause the chemical reaction in their body that speeds up their metabolism and makes them lose weight.

That's what this article is about: determining how your body works; how your individual chemistry responds to food, and then creating a custom eating plan specifically designed for your unique metabolism. Once you do your Blueprint and understand how your body responds to food, you can start eating MORE of the foods that cause you to lose weight. That means you can finally stop dieting and stop starving yourself without results. You can start eating more and lose weight fast!

Why We Get Fat

It may be hard to believe, but fat is your body's survival mechanism. Early in our evolution, before our primary concerns were jobs and relationships, that great vacation and a new VCR, our major concern was finding food. To survive, we needed to hunt game, and gather enough nuts and fruits to keep us alive. Later, of course, man developed agriculture and animal husbandry, but these food sources were subject to natural cycles: migrations, seasonal changes and the weather. A winter too cold or a summer too hot could mean the difference between feast or famine.

Evolution helped us by allowing our bodies to store food, or fuel, in the form of fat. If we needed to go several days without finding food we could still survive. This is a genetic factor and a reality. Today, food is plentiful. We can easily find the food, so we eat regularly. Plus, nowadays we don't simply eat for survival; we also eat for pleasure and as part of the social ritual. While we rarely run the risk of starvation these days, our bodies are still equipped with the same survival mechanism of storing fat by slowing down the metabolic rate.

Therefore, manipulating your metabolism is the key to losing weight.

Metabolism - The Key to Fast Fat Loss

No matter what body type you are, the key, to fast weight loss is accelerating your metabolism. Metabolism is the rate at which your body utilizes food for energy, cellular growth and maintenance. Very simply - it is the speed that your body burns the food you eat.

If you have a fast metabolism, you likely have no trouble staying thin: you're always hungry and may even have trouble keeping weight (both at and muscle) on your body. Someone with a slow metabolic rate can eat very little, perhaps one meal a day and stay the same or even gain weight.

You can think of your metabolism as a bonfire and the food you eat as logs you put on the lire. If the bonfire is burning big and hot, it has no trouble consuming the additional wood that you put on it. You put a giant log on it and it burns it in minutes. Your metabolism works the same way: if you have a very fast metabolism your body can easily burn whatever you feed it. That's why some people seem to be able to eat anything they want and never gain weight. Their metabolisms are moving so fast it consumes whatever they feed it.

Conversely, if the bonfire begins to die out and burn more slowly, it doesn't burn the new wood you put on it so quickly. If you put a big log on the smoldering embers of a fire, the log is liable to just sit there. It may take all night for it to slowly burn away. Again, your metabolism works the same way. If your metabolism is very slow it can't burn all the calories you feed it. The food you eat just sits there and eventually gets stored as fat.

This fact is key to any weight loss program. In general, the slower your metabolism, the less quickly your body will convert food into energy, and the food that doesn't get burned as fuel will get stored as fat. And that's when you get fat.

The faster your metabolism, the more you can eat without gaining weight. That's what most weight loss programs are all about - reprogramming your metabolism so you can eat more and lose weight fast.

You must determine what kinds of food work with your individual body chemistry (your Body Type) to reprogram your metabolism so that it uses more of the food you eat as energy and stores less as fat. The good news: for most people the way to do that is by eating MORE, not less. You eat more of the Foods that speed up your metabolism and cause you to lose weight. Once you do that, it becomes impossible for your body to maintain the same level of fat. The pounds will start to melt away automatically!