Due to a lot of research conducted into the importance of staying lean and healthy, most people are aware of the various illnesses that can affect them if they are overweight. However, what is often not mentioned is that everybody has a different body type with a unique body shape. Understanding one’s body shape and the fat to muscle ratio is detrimental to successful weight loss.

It is important to know how much your Body Mass Index is. The BMI is a weight to height ratio, and gives you an idea about how overweight you really are. At the same time, going strictly by the BMI figure would not be completely accurate either. An athlete might have a higher BMI but his body may have more muscle than fat, and may be lean. So understanding your body shape is important. Women usually have three kinds of body shapes - upper body fat ( apple shape), lower body fat ( pear shape) ,both upper and lower body fat (avocado shape). Men on the other hand tend to have more fat stored in the upper body. Fat in the upper body tends to store up due to stress, while fat in the lower body gets stored up due to unhealthy eating and also to enable breastfeeding. If a woman has both upper and lower body fat, she is likely to lose the upper body fat first, because losing weight in the lower body takes more time. This can be attributed to the fact that most women with lower body fat also have a low metabolism, making the cells resistant to exercise and diet. So losing weight is made possible only through a personalized weight loss program like the Shapeworks program .

Increasing the intake of protein, and eating healthy whole grains, ensures that mindless snacking on junk food is controlled. Herbalife has a huge range of supplements and snacks to enable faster weight loss, while keeping you healthy.