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In the realm of weight loss, fat has been given a bad rap with regards to its value as an essential nutrient for the body. Alongside the infamous carbohydrate, fat is the other infamous nutrient that has been targeted as something to eliminate or avoid by the weight loss industry. The irony is that both are fundamental nutrients for sustaining a healthy body. We have to re-educate ourselves on what type of fats to eat in a balanced diet to burn the baby fat.

It’s time to wake up and cut back on your fat. The operative word being “cut back” and not “eliminate”. We need to “cut back” the fat because a diet high in fat is connected to a host of health problems, namely, cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

The logical way to go about losing pregnancy weight is to greatly reduce the fat in your diet. The first thing to do to cut out fat is by altering the way you buy, cook and prepare food. Being more health conscious of the food you eat is a step in the right direction to burn the baby fat.

Keeping track of fat content in foods is much easier today because most food products come with nutrition labels and ingredients. Because people are becoming more health conscious consumers, some food companies and fast food restaurant chains have nutrition brochures.

Know your fats and be able to recognize the good, the bad and the ugly fats. The good fats are the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats (plant based oils from vegetables, legumes and fish oils) are to be the fats that make up 25 percent of your total dietary intake.The bad fats are the trans (partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated fats on the product label) and the saturated fats(animal products such as meat and dairy). Both must be eaten sparingly with only one percent trans and less than 10 percent saturated fat is the recommended amount. The ugly fat is cholesterol of which less than 300 mg is recommended.

Your diet varies from one day to the next and so will the fat in your diet. Nature has a way of balancing things out so you can burn the baby fat by keeping all things in moderation. Focus on the big picture by monitoring your fat intake over a series of months rather than obsessing on the fat in the frappuccino you had an hour ago.

In order to maintain a balanced diet, you need to eat more of the healthy fats and less of the unhealthy ones that can be detrimental to your health. Burning the baby fat requires cutting back on your calories especially the calories from foods laden with saturated and trans fats. Eat a balanced low calorie diet and increase your physical activity and watch the weight melt off.

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