Despite the $50 billion spent on weight loss each year in the US alone, there is no magic diet, no diet pill, or exercise routine that is guaranteed to make you lose weight. Most diets fail and people are becoming more overweight and more frustrated by the minute as obesity rates have triple since the 1960's.

Only 2-6 percent of all attempts at losing weight are successful. And ever worse, the average person ultimately gains 5 pounds over and above his/her starting weight for every diet he or she goes on. We clearly know this now - dieting does not work.

Armed with the latest advancements of the modern world, the global society is fighting an all out war against an epidemic of overweight and obesity and losing big time. We have never had more diets and diet plans, more 'experts', more technology, diet pills, surgery, fitness clubs and websites devoted to weight loss and dieting.

Yet even when weight loss seems to work (temporarily) when the bathroom scales go down, looking "thinner" in the mirror is invariably the result of losing mainly healthy fat burning muscle tissue, not excess body fat as expected..

Inside their body's people's health, energy and vitality is going down the drain. With all that dieting and deprivation, those on restrictive diet programs are effectively getting weaker and sicker by the day. Sooner or later they sense and feel this and their frustration and despair grows.

We need to revise, radically and rapidly our current view of current methods of fat loss. We need to enlist the latest insights from ongoing metabolic research and a host of other science fields as new information is coming to hand.

Instead of just watching our weight increasing out of control we need to get really smart about the most effective ways to burn off excess body fat automatically and continually. This can be achieved by enlisting the natural metabolic "engine" of energy production as an ally not an afterthought.

This knowledge is the key to creating a healthy, efficient metabolism that burns fat instead of storing it and is the solution to the problem of being overweight.

We must use a better more effective way to deal to excess body fat so that it is lasting and permanent and to do this we must work with our body, not against it. We are genetically designed to move, to use our bodies vigorously and often. This is how our bodies flourish and stay healthy and lean. If you do not do proper strength building and maintaining exercise, begin to do so. If you already exercise, do more.

At stake here is your level of muscle tone. Your muscle tissue is the prime site for fat burning and energy production. If you allow your muscles to weaken ? with age, inactivity or disuse ? your metabolic rate declines. It is really this simple; you can and must, turn this around for your long term health

There are two important metabolic switches that govern whether your burn fat or store fat and need to be permanently activated and are completely within your control. They are:

1.Proper physical activity that engages your muscles frequently such as strength training exercise. No low intensity activity such as walking, jogging or cycling can do this. Along with your strength training program do at least one interval training session each week to further boost metabolism.

2.Small frequent meals (4-6) throughout the day with a focus on key fat burning generating nutrients such as 20-30 grams of high quality protein and 300-400 calories at each of these meals. These meals need to be eaten every 2-3 hours for maximum metabolism boosting effect.

This is how simple it really is. If you truly want a healthy, strong, lean, shapely, energetic body this is what it takes to achieve it. Nothing else, no dieting, no diet pills, no doctor, no surgery and most certainly a no exercise lifestyle can or will ever give you,.

Forget everything you have been mislead to believe about weight (fat) loss and old fashioned ineffective exercise programs that don't deliver and start again with the new 21st Century methods that really do work.