text:  Everything for weight loss has been focused on eating less calories. What a lot of people don't realize is one of the most important things controlling insulin levels. What we eat is going to first go through the liver, then it goes to the muscles. Anything more than that, then it goes into the fat. If there's insulin presence, the body's thinking that you just ate. So the body has a mechanism that it actually shuts down the energy in the fat. So you have to be able to control that insulin or it's going to be very difficult, almost impossible to burn the fat.