You must break fat before you can lose it. This is the #1 scientific principle behind weight loss that is often ignored in mainstream fitness yet it is the foundation of all weight loss related scientific literature.

We are often told to “eat less and train more”, “count calories”, “run a lot” or “diet hard”. It seems simple and it works to a certain degree, but it’s not the most efficient way. In fact, mainstream methods are painfully lacking in scientific reasoning once you dig a bit deeper and you are guaranteed to run into obstacles should you pursue an approach that ignores the biological process.

Fat breaking is known in science as Lipolysis (lipo = “fat”, Lysis = “breaking”) and it’s the process of breaking down adipose tissue and triglycerides into glycerol and free fatty acids.

Fat burning is by definition, burning down (or “oxidation”) of these free fatty acids. This is how you lose fat and this is why it’s important to know how to optimize fat breaking and fat burning to get better results.

In reality, you can’t just “burn fat” from your body. Science does recognize that you have to access the tissue (adipose tissue), break triglycerides, mobilize those fatty acidsand then (and only then), you can burn them (oxidation).

A certain degree of burning and breaking will happen regardless of what you do. However, if you are hoping to get better results, you need to know how to break and burn more fat. In reality, while something as simple as “calories” or “running” may appeal to those who are afraid to dig deeper, they never will account for effective fat breaking. They may give you some results, but if you are limiting yourself to calories only, your results are going to be very limited as well.

The problem is the complexity as this is not a simple subject.

For example:

• Running (and other exercises) can be used both to break or burn fat – but how do you know which of the two takes place?
• Intensity matters a lot, but intensity is subjective and changes as you get fatigued!
• Your hormonal state can turn an efficient exercise, to a non-efficient exercise. So setting everything right makes a ton of difference.

It’s also more about structure than quantities. For example:

• A high fat diet can help you lose more weight when used well. Even though a high fat diet is higher in calories than a low fat diet (which is less effective).
• Having a certain amount of food an hour before exercise or 5 hours after exercise will give you 2 extremely different results. Same food, same exercise (same calories in vs calories out) but different timings can make or break your results.

At the end of the day, anything you do will have some effect. But if you are serious about losing weight (and you want to lose a lot), then you need to get serious about what you are doing. BellyProof is how you do that.

People often want us to tell them the simplest way of doing things. The simple way is outlined in the program step by step with over 100 video tutorials, that’s how we make it simple.

Same as it’s not “simple” to just fly an aircraft or trade stocks, biology is also far from a simple 1 step process.

There’s a lot you can do, but if you are hoping to find a simple “best exercise” that will change everything for you, it doesn’t exist.

Often when people want to get in shape, they judge their progress by how much weight they lose according to the scales.

Cut your food, increase your exercise and you may as well drop 2 kg in 3 days – it’s been done and it’s easy! But that’s not fat loss!

Fat loss is the art and science of losing body fat. In other words, the most effective ways to break and burn more fat in a shortest amount of time. Weight loss is just about losing weight, which is different to losing body fat.

Your weight is composed from many different thing (i.e. “body composition”) aside from body fat. Things like glycogen and water can often be lost and gained much quicker, than fat it self. Most people cut food and increase exercise which results in glycogen depletion. That leads to a great deal of weight loss but not fat loss. The moment you step out of line, you put it all back. We call it “yoyo weight”.

The good news is that Bellyproof accounts for that. We promise you will lose body fat, and plenty of it.

Lipolysis is triggered primarily via a hormonal response (refer to Episode 4: Adri, Tes, Growmona) as well as Cortisol. These can be manipulated both through during the workout (by controlling intensity and therefore type 2b muscle fibers) as well as through diet and sleep (by promoting better sleep and by maintaining a fasted state). The result is the activation of adenylate cyclase, which then triggers cAMP (cyclic-adenosine monophosphate) production.

cAMP then activates protein kinase A which in turn activate lipases which perform the action we call lipolysis (separating Triglycerides into both free fatty acids and glycerol).

Oxidation happens to free fatty acid when we use them for energy. It must be in the presence of oxygen (aerobic metabolism) and it is mostly done in the cellular organ called the Mitochondria. As certain muscle fibers (type 1 and 2a) are rich in mitochondrial content, we can bias oxidation by allowing more activity all over the body that would focus on those fiber types. We do it in more than one way.

Reference to all the above and for those who want to learn more about the science can be found here.

As little as 5 weeks and 3 days. There’s no limit however and you can always strive to lose more fat or build more muscle.