Do Your Pants Hate Your Belly Fat? How to Lose It!
Enough Already!
Ever think that your pants must have been shrunk in the washer because you can’t zip them up? Yeah, right. So you’ve decided to take some steps to lose your belly fat. Good idea and congratulations. Let’s make a plan.
I’m Never Eating This Again
We’ve all heard enough about belly fat and how to lose it by diet and exercise. There really is no need to make this sound like another revelation. However, a famous fitness trainer once proclaimed that he felt that diet was 80% of the reason for a person keeping fit and trim. It does make sense that you can’t go work out and then stop by a burger joint to help yourself to burgers and fries covered with cheese. First, you should plan on getting some information about your daily calorie intake allowance based on your age, height and gender. You can find this on the internet where this information is readily available for you. So let’s start with some of the foods you really need to avoid:
- Avoid any products that contain hydrogenated oil.
- Avoid any products that have vegetable shortening.
- Avoid any fried foods, especially fast food restaurants.
- Avoid or minimize using polyunsaturated oils such as sunflower or corn oils. Use olive oil, especially extra-virgin olive oil.
- Avoid processed and packaged foods.
- Avoid refined sugars, white flour bread and baked goods.
Here are some foods you want to eat that are the fat burning foods:
- Apples- high in fiber
- Barley- low in fat
- Legumes (beans, peas, etc.)- low in calories
- Berries- provides natural fructose
- Broccoli- no fat and lots of fiber
- Carrots- low in calories
- Fish- High in Omega 3 oils for reduced blood pressure.
- Vegetable Greens (spinach, Swiss chard)- low in calories and fat-free
- Lettuce- High in protein
- Melons- Provides good nutrition.
Let’s Get Physical
Yeah you knew this was coming. If you dread this, take solace in the fact that your body was made for exercising. Weight control is one thing but quality of life is another. You don’t want to go through your life sick, tired and feeling depressed. So let’s just start with some basic ideas for about your belly fat and how to lose it. It is important to build muscle because it burns up calories much faster than fat. A good weight reduction program will require both cardiovascular training and weight resistance. Check with your doctor before you begin because you don’t want to guess at this. Cardiovascular training can be such activities as moderate to fast walking for thirty five minutes a day every other day. If your joints are okay you can do running for thirty minutes a day for three days a week.
Cycling and swimming are also excellent for burning fat. The secret is you need to get breathing heavier and get your heart beating faster. Choose some activity you will enjoy and don’t mind putting the time in to accomplish your goal.
Weight training can be something as simple as doing push-ups where you start on your knees and lift your body while keeping it straight. Eventually work to getting up on your toes and do 25 push-ups. In a short time you can get up to 50 and then 100 push-ups. Also consider doing sit ups, squats, standing twists and leg raises. You should get a good exercise guide that fits your individual needs and goals.
If you want to go a little further, free weights can be used for resistance training for building the arms, back, chest, and the belly area. Free weights are simple to use and provide a wide variety of exercises. You really should seek some good guide information for doing these exercises for the purpose of effectiveness and avoiding injury while lifting. You want to make sure you are making progress to lose the belly fat and build the muscle mass but you definitely do not want to hurt yourself.
Say Goodbye to the Belly Fat and Hello Speedo!
Best advice- don’t quit and don’t quit. Take Action and don’t quit. The statistics are staggering for all the started weight loss cases that only stalled out and went nowhere. You can do this. Just think how much your pants are gonna love you!