How Coconut Oil Can Help You Lose Weight and Belly Fat

Here are the few points you must take note before you start taking the first dose of coconut oil for weight loss:

Use virgin coconut oil (best, organic) because this type of coconut oil best benefits both weight loss and health as it contains the best combination of various MCFAs for boosting metabolism and toughening immunity.If you want to soar your metabolism to greater heights, add MCT oil to your virgin coconut oil diet. This is because MCT oil carries only caprylic and capric acids, which are very short medium-chain fatty acids (usually extracted from coconut or palm kernel) that can infiltrate into your cells easily and then convert to energy quickly, thus providing an immediate boost to your metabolism.
For that reason, some people eat only MCT oil for weight loss. But I do encourage making virgin coconut oil as the staple in your weight loss diet and MCT oil a supplementary for weight loss because virgin coconut oil really provides plenty of health benefits besides its fat-burning property. MCT oil can never match up to the health benefits of virgin coconut oil.
Because I advocate healthy weight loss, I want you to lose weight and gain health at the same time.
Another thing is, if you find the distinctive natural coconut scent in virgin coconut oil a bit too strong for your liking, either you learn to like it or instead, use refined coconut oil that is odorless and as a matter of fact, contains slightly lesser MCFAs.
No matter how many extra pounds you wish to lose, whether 20, 50 or even 100 pounds, don’t consume too much coconut oil in one go. True, the more coconut oil you eat, the more fat you can burn. But because coconut oil has bowel-loosening effect, it’s best to start with 1/2 to 1 tablespoon daily for a few days first to allow your body to adapt itself to the oil and prevent diarrhea-like symptoms from occurring before your next increment.
You can consume coconut oil on its own if you don’t mind its greasy feel in your mouth (I’ve tried before and find eating this way a bit disgusting, but when added to my food and beverages – Yummy!). However, based on my own experience as well as feedback from people whom I recommended the oil to, eating the oil on its own produces more potent bowel-loosening effect than mixing it with food. That’s why I always suggest people to cook their food with it (substitute coconut oil for whatever cooking oil you’re using now), or add it raw to their food or beverages (juices, smoothies etc). Doing so enhances the flavor of your food and drinks too.
Don’t expect the weight loss benefits of coconut oil to manifest after eating it for only a few days or so. The toxic buildups in your body over the past years due to animal meat and junk food consumption can hamper the releasing of fats from your tissues for burning. As coconut oil has potent detoxifying properties, it’ll deal with your toxins first before it can draw on the fats from your fat reserves and use them as fuel at its disposal. Therefore, it takes regular (i.e. every day for best result) consumption for at least 2 to 3 weeks before you can notice the difference on your weighing scale.
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Of course, if you manage to detox well with coconut oil, the scale should show a dramatic drop of few pounds in a week, but that’s only “weight loss” and not fat loss yet. True weight loss is burning off of excess fat that results in weight loss. So, please take note of this.
There’s simply no restrictions on how much or how many doses of coconut oil you can or should take for weight loss. That depends on how well your body can adapt to the oil’s effect. If your body can only take up to 2 Tbsps daily after several weeks of gradual addition of coconut oil to your diet, so be it. But generally, most people can take up to 3 or 4 Tbsps every day, which are what I would recommend for weight loss.
Make sure you cut back on the calorie intake of other food while increasing your doses of coconut oil because excess calorie when not used as fuel will still convert to body fat. Calorie always counts when it comes to losing weight.
One study shows that after consuming a meal containing medium-chain fats, normal-weight people increase their energy expenditure by 48%, but obese individuals increase their energy expenditure by an amazing 65%. In other words, the more excess body fat you have, the stronger will be the fat-burning effect of coconut oil on your body. That means, you may come to the point where coconut oil starts burning lesser body fat even though your metabolism remains optimally elevated. That’s good news because that shows you’re getting closer to a normal BMI.
Don’t limit yourself to just eating coconut oil. You can also include any coconut product such as coconut water, coconut meat, coconut butter and coconut cream or milk in your diet so that you’ll never fall short of MCFAs to help keep your metabolism active at all times. Even when making snacks or desserts you can sprinkle desiccated coconut over to enhance the mouth-feel and flavor of your sweet treats. Isn’t that cool?

In short, increase your coconut oil intake progressively to the point that it becomes a natural part of your diet and lifestyle because we’re talking about long-term weight management, not short-term weight loss. If you treat coconut oil as a temporary weight loss solution, you’re likely to fail on your quest to get down in shape and stay slim for good.