If you are a growing teenage guy -- meaning you are not yet 17 years of age or your height is less than 5 foot 10 inches or so -- your natural growth is by far the best fat burner that's every going to be available to you. Every inch you grow in height is equivalent to losing between 5 and 10 pounds of weight! That means instead of punishing yourself with a restrictive diet you can get same or better results by simply adopting a healthier lifestyle and letting your body grow.

Let's say you weigh 170 pounds at 5 foot 6 inches. At that point you would be considered overweight. But what if you grew to be 6 foot tall while maintaining that exact same weight of 170 pounds? Then you'd be at a perfectly healthy weight. And if you happened to grow to 6 foot 2 inches at that exact same weight of 170 pounds then you'd actually become underweight!

Why does it matter that growing in height is as good as losing weight? Because: if you lose weight as a teenager, especially if you lose a lot of it or lose it too quickly, you risk stunting your growth prematurely, way before you reach your natural height potential!

So my advice to you is to not try to lose weight unless you have definitely stopped growing in height OR unless you are obese and your doctor recommends active weight loss. If you are only 14 or 15 and only have an extra 10 or 20 pounds of fat to lose by far the better way to get the physique you want is to learn how to eat right and to be as physically active as possible. This includes everything from weight training under adult supervision to playing sports to doing yard work like mowing lawns or shoveling snow. You don't even need to worry about how much you eat or how many calories you burn -- instead simply make sure you eat healthy foods and meals as described in http://www.mikesfitness.com/content/nutrition and take advantage of every opportunity to be physically active. Take stairs instead of elevators, walk or bike places instead of getting rides, play pick-up games of basketball or soccer or any other sport, help around the house, run, bike, swim, sign up for school sports, do anything and everything that requires you to move.

Such positive changes in your diet and lifestyle combined with your body's continuing growth will completely transform you in a few months to a year and will be much more effective and lasting than any short-term weight loss diet you might put yourself through.