If you want to lose belly fat, remember that doing so is the same as losing fat anywhere else on the body.
The notion of preferentially reducing fat in one area of your body (spot reducing) is not very probable. Consider your body fat as a swimming pool with a deep end and a shallow end, as it’s going to take the deep end longer to empty.
The only way to permanently get rid of belly fat is to eat right and employ a proper diet. You are what you ate.
Essentially, processed foods are not good for the body, and that goes double with the amount of sugar and salt contained in them.
By continuing to eat these high calorie and less nutritious foods, you will never lose your belly fat. No matter how much exercise you do. The definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing and expect a different result. STOP THE INSANITY!
If you consider that our bodies have evolved, over thousands of years, to grow and develop on natural foods, it will start to make sense why all these boxed and processed foods have caused people to get fatter and fatter as they get older and acquire all the other symptoms you can think of that are referred to as age-related diseases.
Consider that your fat stores are your body’s toxic dumping grounds for all the crap it can’t use and that it is on you, dragging you down and holding you back. It’s pretty hard to accumulate belly fat if you have a diet of clean natural food and you don’t consume more than your body can use at one meal.
The body will start showing symptoms after it takes repeated abuse for a long period of time. Like large deposits of belly fat.
The reason that it’s so hard to eat correctly, and lose belly fat, is that we have unconsciously developed bad eating habits. The nutrition of a food is oftentimes overlooked for the taste. In other words people tend to “live to eat” as opposed to “eat to live.” By the way, eating healthy doesn’t have to taste bad and be boring. The road to losing your belly fat is all about changing those things that you are presently doing that got you where you are.
Remember this: It is not possible to out train a bad diet. It is quite easy to down a thousand calories inside for several minutes.
It will take hours or days of work to burn that off, and in the meantime, you will put down another thousand or so calories.
Those kinds of calories are always bad food, calorie dense and nutritionally poor. Food that is high in nutrition is usually low in calories such as fresh vegetables.
So you want to know how to lose belly fat? Here are the basic rules;
1) Every meal needs to consist of lean protein, simple and complex carbohydrates and good fat.
2) Determine your resting metabolic rate, based on your weight (lean mass) and your activity level, then consume 15% – 20% under that caloric requirement.
3) Burn more calories by exercising, preferably exercising to gain more muscle mass, as this will increase your metabolic rate and cause you to burn more calories.
4) Eat 5 – 6 meals per day, about every 3 hours. Following these instructions you should lose about 1.5 lbs – 2 lbs a week of mostly fat. Remember, you want to build muscle and burn fat.
Retraining yourself is a vital part of the process as well as being in control of your habits.
This is all about conquering yourself.
If you try to lose weight (fat) too fast, it is very possible that you will gain it all back.
Training yourself is important and if you leave weight loss to factors that you can’t control, then it will eventually become a problem for you. Using weight loss pills and unhealthy diets is not good.
Training yourself to live your life differently from what you have been doing is the answer, and that takes time. The time is going to pass no matter what, so you might as well do it right and make it permanent.
Filed under Health by on Dec 26th, 2009. 
When people need to lose belly fat the first thing the think of is doing hundreds of crunches and sit-ups, or using the latest ab product shown on the infomercial channels. The truth is doing crunches, abb equipment exercise and sit ups are the least effective way to lose belly fat.
One of the first things needed to lose your belly fat is to get your diet under control. While you can’t lose belly fat without doing any form of exercise, you have simply got to start eating differently to how you used to in the past. Remember this, if you don’t make changes to your diet then nothing about your appearance will change. You have to change your eating habits and eating the foods that got you overweight and wanting to loose fat in the first place.
There is way to much confusion about what works and how you go about fat loss, let alone what is healthy fat loss. We are subject to conflicting messages from radio and TV and are constantly bombarded with the new fad diets, exercise programs and diet suppliments. A sensible diet that is easy to prepare and follow, and that is based around non processed foods will keep you in good stead.Realistically you can’t expect to lose belly fat over night just because you have changed your diet. The next step for fat loss is to start working out, exercise. This too needs to go hand in hand with your diet.
To start realize that its the intensity of your fat loss exercise and that you need to focus on the whole body in order to get the best metabolic response so you can lose that persistent belly fat. I once heard it put this way, If you focus on the upper and lower body, the middle will take care of itself.
To get really fit and lean, do high intensity workouts with short rest breaks periods in between. Work the large muscle groups instead of focusing on the smaller muscle groups such as calves and triceps.
The secret to the entire process of fat loss is simple, just start where you stand, don’t wait for tomorrow. Its more than likely that you are responsible for where you are as far as your weight goes, even though you may not have been aware of why. Anyone can and thousands are taking the steps to lose belly fat. Why not get going today.
Filed under Fitness by on Mar 16th, 2009. 2 Comments.