Belly Fat Losing Tips For Perfect Body Shape

Many products claim to help people lose belly fat quickly. Unfortunately, a lot of these products are dangerous, and the weight that was lost is typically regained in a short amount of time. To really lose belly fat, and keep it off for good, is to follow a natural weight loss plan that actually works and is healthy for your body.

Exercise For Weight Loss

Aerobic exercise will facilitate fat loss all over your body, including your belly. You can’t “spot-burn” belly fat, but it’s usually the first to burn off when you exercise, regardless of your body shape or size. Just be sure that you focus on calorie-burning exercises, rather than sit-ups or crunches. If your abdominal muscles are covered in fat, no strengthening of those muscles is going to change that. Aerobic exercise is key.

Drinking

Drink plenty of pure water. Water will hydrate the internal organs, and will make the systems in the body work right, such as the endocrine system. The endocrine system controls metabolism, and when metabolism increases your body can burn off extra calories and fat easier. Drinking plenty of water will help boost the metabolism and increase functionality of the endocrine system.

Add Resistance Training

A 2006 study published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism suggests that combining cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise with resistance training is more effective than cardiovascular training alone in getting rid of abdominal fat You can do resistance training with free weights, exercise machines, or resistance bands.

Reduce Your Calorie Consumption, And Swap Out Certain Foods For Others

Unless you restrict your calorie intake, you’re not going to lose belly fat. There are some tactics that might help do away with belly fat faster, but only when you’ve already consistently restricted your calorie intake. For example, eating an avocado after eating an entire bag of chips isn’t going to help you get rid of belly fat in fact, it’ll probably make the problem worse!

Switch Out Refined Grains For Whole Grains

In a scientific study, people who ate all whole grains (in addition to five servings of fruits and vegetables, three servings of low-fat dairy, and two servings of lean meat, fish, or poultry) lost more belly fat than another group that ate the same diet, but with all refined grains. A diet rich in whole grains changes the glucose and insulin response in your body, which hastens the melting of fat, and visceral fat, that deep layer of fat, is easier for your body to burn than the subcutaneous fat under your skin (the fat that you can see and grab).

Eat The Better Fats

Studies suggests that a diet with a higher ratio of monounsaturated fats (MUFAs) (avocados, nuts, seeds, soybeans, chocolate) can prevent the accumulation of both types of belly fat. Some experts argue, though, that it’s not that these fats specifically target abdominal fat in any way; it’s that anyone will probably lose weight on a lower calorie diet (regardless of where those calories come from) and as discussed earlier, belly fat is usually the first to go.

• Trans fats (in margarines, crackers, cookies–anything made with partially hydrogenated oils) seem to result in more fat being deposited in the abdomen, so avoid these as much as you can.

Get More Fiber In Your Diet

Soluble fiber (apples, oats, cherries) lowers insulin levels, which, as mentioned earlier, can speed up the burning of visceral belly fat.

• Add fiber to your diet slowly. If you are currently getting 10 grams of fiber a day, don’t jump to 35 grams of fiber the next day. You need to give the natural bacteria in your digestive system time to adapt to your new fiber intake.
• Leave the skin on! Incorporating more fruits and vegetables into your diet will add fiber, but only if you eat the skin, because that’s where all the fiber is. So don’t peel those apples before you eat them. If you’re eating potatoes, try to leave the skin in the dish (such as if making baked or mashed potatoes) or if you peel them, make a snack out of them, such as baked garlic Parmesan peels. It’s also worth knowing that keeping the skin on potatoes when you cook them will help keep more vitamins and minerals in the flesh. Just don’t eat any parts of skin that are green.
• Eat more split pea soup. Split peas is a fiber “power food”. Just one cup of them contains 16.3 grams of protein!