Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel the nutrition diva with your quick and dirty

tips for eating well and feeling fabulous and today I'm going to be talking about

the best time to exercise in order to burn more body fat.

Scott writes, I've heard that the best time to exercise is in the morning before you eat breakfast, because your body is still fasting from not

eating overnight which causes you to burn more calories. Is this true? Well Scott how many

calories you burn during exercise depends on how hard and how long you

exercise, not how long it's been since you've eaten. But there is some research

showing that if you exercise after a fast such as first thing in the morning you will burn more body fat than if you

did the same exercise later in the day. Why? Well your body stores energy or

calories in a variety of formats and places in your body.

You store a little bit in your blood, a little bit in your muscles, some in your liver, and

the rest you store as body fat.

It's a little like storing your money in a number of places. You probably have some in your

wallet, possibly some more in your dresser drawer, some in a checking account, and maybe the rest is in a money market

account. Which account you withdraw funds from will probably

depend on how much you need and how fast you need it. Similarly, what type of fuel you

burn during exercise depends in part on the balances available in your various fuel storage

accounts.

In the morning, your blood, muscle, and liver accounts are going to be at their lowest because

your body will have been drawing on them to pay for

metabolic activities during the 10 or 12 hours since you had your last paycheck, I mean meal.

So if you exercise first thing in the morning before you've refilled those energy accounts by eating some breakfast.

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