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If you want to tone your arms, starving yourself is out of the question. Not only is this unsustainable, but it also wrecks your body from many different physiological standpoints.

Thus, your main goal is to maximize the amount of calories going towards active tissues and minimize the amount of calories going towards inactive tissue. In other words, you want to feed your muscles, brain and organs while starving your fat cells.

In essence, enhanced partitioning of nutrients is the key to fast arm toning.

So without further ado, here is how to tone your arms faster than before by starving fat cells:

1. Stay away from bad fat. Saturated fat and trans fat fall into this category. Both types of fat make your good cells resist the intake of nutrients. Thus, more nutrients get diverted towards your arm fat cells.

2. Make sure of your calories come from good fats. Good fats (i.e., unsaturated fats) help your good cells take in a higher percentage of nutrients by making them more permeable and more flexible. As a side note, restricting good fat in your diet will severely decrease the production of fat burning hormones in your body-not good if you want to tone arms.

3. Help insulin do its job with supplements. There are certain supplements that will help insulin do its job within your body. And if insulin does a better job, more nutrients will go to your active tissues instead of fat tissues.

4. Lose weight. Specifically, focus on losing body fat. As you lose larger quantities of body fat, your body will shuffle a higher percentage of calories towards your active tissues. This will help you tone your arms at a faster rate.

5. Resistance train often. Resistance training will be your best friend if you want to tone those arms. One way it will help you is by increasing…

Are you trying to get rid of arm flab? Have you been drinking energy drink upon energy drink to keep you active and to burn more fat? Well, there are downsides to drinking these caffeine-laden concoctions.

Letting go of energy drinks can be hard. They are ultra convenient and all you have to do is drink a bottle and instant energy is yours.

But you should be aware of the negative side effects of taking bottled energy for reducing arm flab:

1. Digestive lining degradation. Almost all energy drinks have one main ingredient in common: caffeine. And high amounts of caffeine can damage your digestive lining. It can also cause a lot of gastric distress.

2. Sleep debt masking. Just because the caffeine in the energy drink keeps you awake and alert, doesn’t mean that you’ve reduced your sleep debt. And a massive sleep debt will make getting rid of arm flab that much harder. Not only will you produce less fat burning hormones, but simple tasks like assembling a healthy meal will seem much harder than it actually is.

3. More midnight awakenings. Surprisingly, even the best of sleepers wake up at least 10 times every night. And they don’t remember a thing. Having lots of caffeine during the day can increase your frequency of awakenings, decrease sleep quality and you wouldn’t even be aware of it.

4. Adrenal fatigue. If you were to continually consume energy drinks with abandon, you would reach a point where the energy burst would simply disappear. This happens because of adrenal fatigue. And chronic abuse of your adrenal system can lead to faster aging!

5. Cellular dehydration. Caffeine does two things: it increases dehydration and it masks the effects of said dehydration. This is not a good combo for arm flab. After all, cellular hydration has a direct impact on recovery, fatigue, mental state and…