Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. In today's episode, you're going to learn two potent ways to kill fat cells and lose fat fast.

Think about the last piece of fat loss advice you received. Let me guess it would

something like this. Move more. Eat less. Try this pill. Read this diet book. And sure,

fat loss in the attainment of a sexy lean body begins with getting off your butt, moving more,

working out, and slowly lowering the donut from your gaping maw. But when it comes to losing

fat fast, staying shredded,

ripped and toned year-round and getting to the body weight you want, without two-a-day

workouts and being hungry all the time, there are potent strategies that fly under the radar,

strategies that go beyond fat loss. For example, take the flawed concept that no matter what,

you'll always be stuck with the number

of fat cells you've built earlier in your life. This commonly accepted dogma in the fitness

and diet industry dictates that if you've ever had excess weight or bits of undesirable

adipose tissue on your waist, hips, and butt, then the fat cells in those areas will never

actually disappear, but they'll instead just shrink.

Those fat cells will then hide, waiting in the wings for the next time you mess up and eat a few too

many bites of steak or an extra scoop of ice cream, at which point those food calories are doomed

to wind up getting shoved directly into the eagerly waiting fat cells, resulting in a constant uphill

battle against the bulge.

But this simply isn't true.

I realized this when I interviewed Dr. Kate Shanahan on my podcast at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com, and she explained that if you banish just one particular notorious biological variable

that is present in most people eating a standard Western diet, you can actually induce fat cells to not only die, but to get transformed into other physiologically useful tissues, such as muscle cells, stem cells, and neural cells.

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