CUT THAT BELLY FAT!
Belly fat is by far the hardest fat to get rid of. It is also the most unsightly fat to have hanging around! So how do you get rid of it? I have 4 words for you: Carbs, Sugar, Exercise and Sleep! Reduce your carbs intake, and you should definitely stay away from white flour!! Reduce your sugar intake, especially those sweet juices and drinks! Consuming too much liquid is known to increase the size of your waistline. Substitute water for most of the juice you consume on a daily basis. Work those abs by including weights in your exercise routine. Get at minimum 7 to 8 hours of sleep!!Here is what e-How Health has to say about cutting that belly fat:
How to Cut the Belly Fat
, eHow Contributor
There are many myths and falsehoods out there concerning the "best" possible way to cut belly fat in a healthy manner. So-called diet foods are just junk foods in disguise. TV advertisements push exercise machines into the marketplace that do nothing to help you lose those unwanted pounds. However, scientists are getting smarter when it comes to shedding those last 10, 20 or 30 pounds. Doing so will decrease your risk of heart disease, stroke and many different types of cancer. In short, eat better, exercise more and get the rest you need every day.
Instructions
1. Change the way you eat and what you eat the most of. Your diet is the most important aspect of losing belly fat. Diets that are high in carbohydrates, especially easily digested carbohydrates like sugar, make it almost impossible to lose belly fat. The human body burns carbs first, followed by fat and then protein. Decreasing the amount of carbohydrates and fats consumed and increasing the amount of protein consumed will help you burn unwanted body fat.
2. Change the way you exercise. Exercising is a very important aspect of any fat loss regimen, but traditional cardio workouts will do very little to cut belly fat. Instead, a National Center
3. Add strength training to your exercise routine three times per week. Strength training using weights (free weights or weight machines) helps to build muscle. Increasing your overall lean body weight will help you to burn more calories throughout the day. Muscle is an active tissue and uses energy to maintain itself---even while you are sleeping. Increasing your lean body weight will help burn extra fat all day long.
4. Get at least eight hours of sleep per day (seven to nine per night is a good range). Studies have shown that people who do not get enough sleep are more likely to be obese than those who sleep enough. Sleep deprivation decreases the amount of leptin produced in the body, which is a protein that tells your brain that it is full. Less leptin leads to more hunger, which leads to more eating, which leads to a bigger waistline. Your body also has a more difficult time producing insulin when it is sleep deprived. Insulin regulates the level of sugar in the blood, and if there is not enough insulin to take care of the sugar in your blood stream, it will be stored as body fat.
Yuki Hayashi in Canadian Living has these suggestions:
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8 ways to blast belly fat: exercise and diet tips for a slimmer stomach
Discover how to whittle your waistline and shrink ab fat cells, from reducing trans fats to lowering your stress levels.
1. Exercise and eat right
No kidding, right? Yet so many of us sabotage this no-brainer of a gut-busting plan. Study after study proves that eating a well-balanced diet heavy in fruits, veggies and whole grains and low in fat and refined sugars, plus exercising regularly, will help you shed not only subcutaneous fat (the surface fat that makes love handles), but also the deeper visceral fat, which builds up around abdominal organs and can raise your chance of suffering high cholesterol, heart disease, or type 2 diabetes. And regular exercise not only helps you slim down your whole body, it actually shrinks the size of fat cells in your stomach.
2. Get down to your healthy weight
Losing that gut isn't easy, but you can improve your contours (and lower your risk of heart disease and cancer) by lowering your overall body mass index. A healthy adult BMI is roughly 19 to 25. You can do as many crunches as you want, but if you're overweight, your abs will be hidden under a padding of fat. (By the same token, you can be naturally slim but still carry a paunch if you don't exercise or eat right. Bottom line: think of Tactic #1 as the Golden Gut-busting Rule.)
3. Don't be a stress case
Scientists are studying the link between stress and belly fat. Heightened cortisol levels in blood, resulting from stress, seem to react with the body's insulin to create visceral abdominal fat -- and, in a double whammy, to also drive us toward fatty, sugary foods. Reducing stress may make it easier to say no to barbecue chips or chocolate truffles that go straight to the waistline. Try yoga as a way of cutting stress. Bonus: it'll tone you, too. And if your daily commute is a cause of stress, wear an iPod or read a funny book to help you chill out on public transportation; if you drive, consider ways to reduce your commuting time.
4. Stop boozing, quit smoking
Think cigarettes keep you thin? Think again. Both smoking and alcohol raise the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in your body. See Tactic #3 for a refresher on what that means for your gut.
5. Hire a personal trainer
Embarking on a fitness regime is more likely to be successful if you invest in some one-on-one workouts with a personal trainer. She can devise a regimen that will give you the right amount of cardio plus strength training to help you tone up, and target trouble spots most effectively. And the faster you see results, the more likely you are to stay motivated -- and active.
6. Skip the Thai, meet for sushi instead
A recent Japanese study found that fucoxanthin, a compound in brown seaweed, shrank abdominal fat in lab animals, and encouraged a five to 10 per cent weight loss. Human studies are next, but the scientists are excited. And you should be too, if you love Japanese food. Order that miso soup or seaweed salad. Not only do these low-fat appetizers contain seaweed, they'll fill you up so you won't pig out on that caloriepaloooza known as tempura.
7. Avoid trans fats like the plague
Yes, we already mentioned a low-fat diet in Tactic #1, but trans-fatty acids, found in many convenience foods, deserve their own mention. Trans fats are linked to cardiovascular disease, and, as if that weren't enough, they literally go straight to your belly. A recent study found that not only do trans fats create excess visceral fat in the abdomen, they actually cause fat from other parts of the body to redistribute there.
8. Don't believe late-night infomercials
A study by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) found that expensive ab-targeting home-exercise equipment is no better than (and in some cases, is worse than) good, old-fashioned exercises. Skip the gimmicks and work these three ab moves into your workout: the bicycle manouver, reverse crunches and pull-ups done in a captain's chair (an old school Rocky Balboa-style gym staple you'll probably never find a lineup for at your club). Go to the ACE's website for how-tos on these simple moves.
Be Blessed and stay healthy!
sharbs
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