#1

Do cardio when your blood sugar levels are low, as in first thing in the morning or about 3.5 hours after your last meal.

#2

Increase your metabolic rate, the rate at which you use energy from your blood sugar (glucose) on a daily basis by doing weights to increase muscularity or density of muscle.

#3

Since calorie expenditure produces heat, dress to create heat in the body and you will increase the usage of fat as an energy source, provided you do cardio where fat will be the main source of energy.

#4

Keep active on a regular basis, not allowing your body to be sedentary for long. Do not sit in front of the television for hours. Go for a walk, do yard work, shovel snow, etc… as long as it’s active and you increase the heart rate.

#5

When doing cardio, do not increase the resistance too much as this will use muscle energy called glycogen, and very little fat will be used. Always do cardio after your workout with weights, never before, not even as a warm up. Warm up the muscles you’ll be working on with light dumbbells.  All you want is to get oxygen in the cells.