| You've decided on losing belly fat but have yet to | | | | or thrice a week won't cut it. Instead, a full-body |
| find a proper motivation. Take this: according to | | | | exercise regime with cardio and resistance training will |
| medical experts, lugging around that spare tire is a | | | | heighten your metabolic and hormonal responses, and |
| higher health risk than, say, fat depositing in your hips | | | | give you better results, faster. |
| or thighs because belly fat is associated with such | | | | Stick to the right exercise-food ratio. You get |
| diseases as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, | | | | belly fat from what you eat. And you lose it by |
| breast and colorectal cancer, gallbladder problems and | | | | exercising, among other things. Naturally, if you eat |
| metabolic conditions. In addition, a recent also | | | | more fat that you can burn, you can expect your |
| showed that belly fat is likely to cause inflammation | | | | belly fat deposits to pile up. This is the reason why |
| and hardening of the arteries. | | | | most people complain about not getting any results |
| Here, take some tips on how you can start losing | | | | from days or weeks of exercising. They fail to see |
| belly fat! | | | | that the amount of food intake more than makes up |
| Tale of the tape. Looks can deceive, so if you | | | | for the calories burned. |
| want to be sure whether or not it's time to trim your | | | | Watch what you eat. Stay away from those fad |
| midsection girth, the best way to do this is to | | | | diets that say "new," "revolutionary," or |
| measure your waist circumference. Lie down in a | | | | "groundbreaking." All you need to know is this: a diet |
| relaxed manner, making sure that you are not holding | | | | that rich in complex carbohydrates, monounsaturated |
| your breath or your stomach in. Then, using a soft | | | | fats, and calories in general, and are low in |
| tape measure, take the circumference of your | | | | polyunsaturated fats and simple carbohydrates are |
| natural waistline, or that area right below your belly | | | | good for you. All these requirements are often found |
| button and above your pelvis. The safe zone for | | | | in fruits and vegetables. |
| men is 40 inches and 35 inches for women. If you | | | | Finally, consistency is the name of the game. |
| measured more than this, it's time to move on to the | | | | Losing belly fat requires wanting to lose it, and |
| next step. | | | | committing yourself to doing whatever it takes to |
| Get up and sweat it out. It's a no-brainer that | | | | achieve that six-pack abs. In the beginning, it may be |
| losing belly fat first requires that you leave your | | | | difficult to keep a close watch on your diet or get up |
| sedentary life in favor of physical activity that's much | | | | and exercise. But in anything you do, the secret is |
| more intense than getting up to change the channel | | | | always to stick to it until you get what you set out |
| when you can't find the remote. According to fitness | | | | for. Exercise and eat a healthy diet regularly until they |
| experts, a thirty-minute date with the treadmill twice | | | | become second skin. |