Gotcha! Bet you thought this was going to be some quick fix, right? If you were the least bit tempted by the headline, then you definitely need to read this article by one of my favorite fat loss gurus, Tom Venuto. He's got a great sense of humor, as you'll see down below -- and he knows what he's talking about when it comes to burning fat. But he really does have a solution for losing 20lbs really, really fast, so read on...

A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, right? Not really. What you eat is just as important as how much you eat. A calorie is a unit of energy, scientifically defined as how much heat is required to raise one gram of water one degree Celsius. So you'd think that as long as you cut your calorie consumption below what your body requires you'd lose weigh. For every 3500 calories you cut you should lose one pound of fat. It shouldn't matter what you eat. That's not how it works.