Help! My Belly Just WON'T Lose Weight!!!

"Help! My Belly Just WON'T Lose Weight!!!"

This is one of the most distressing cries of our time. In these days of body shaming and the media painting impossible pictures of what our bodies should look like, it's no wonder every one is desperate for a flat tummy. I don't know if our ancestors ever had to deal with big belly issues. Maybe they never had big bellies, or maybe they just weren't as infatuated with body image as we are today. Anyway, we are where we are now and there is no denying the fact that many of us struggle with losing love handles and big tummies.

But before we seek solace in body shapers and waist trainers (did you know that men wear waist trainers too?!), let's try to understand this issue of stubborn belly fat better. Why does fat cling so stubbornly to our bellies and waists? More importantly, what is the solution? Find all the answers you seek just after the cut!

Causes Of Belly Fat:

Belly fat can be caused by a lot of issues, and finding out what is the cause in your specific case, can help you successfully attack it. These are probably the most well-known reasons for stomach fat:

• Childbearing: After delivering, it is possible for your body to bounce back. But, pregnancy and childbearing can change the way that your body hand out and conveys weight, so it may be difficult to get rid of and keep off fat.

• Processed foods: Processed foods have tendency to be low in nutritional value, frequently cause bloating. The most affected area can be the stomach area.

• Fatty foods: Extra fat in your diet can make your body store fat in the stomach.

• Not enough/not right type of exercise: If have different diets but not doing exercises actively, your weight loss journey can be longer.

• Genetics: Everybody conveys their weight on different ways. If people in your family have extra weight around their middle area, than probably you may face the same problem.

Tricks To Get Rid Of Stomach Fat

If you know the way your body is functioning than you can work with it, not against it. You can use this trick to reduce the fat around your stomach and have smooth, lean look you wish for.

1. Stop Skipping Meals!

This one appears to be strange to most people. After all if you eat less than you should lose more weight, isn’t that so? This is not true.

If you don’t eat often, your body will be in panic. Since you haven’t been eaten in a while, your body worries that you might not have access to food and that you may be starving. In preparation for whatever time allotment you don’t eat, your body starts putting aside additional fat that your body can use as energy amid times of starvation.

Even so, when you eat on a regular basis, there is no reason for your body to keep the extra calories or fat. Then your body is well-suited to shed extra fat.

2. Avoid Sugar Like It's Ebola!

You really need to cut back on sugar intake if you hope to ever keep weight off your belly for an extended period of time. There is sugar in almost everything already, even tomato ketchup and milk. Avoid too much refined sugar. When you eat a lot of refined sugar, the liver gets flooded with fructose, and is forced to turn it all into fat. This means you should say no to sweetened beverages like soft drinks and even fruit juice.

3. Eat More Protein And Cut The Carbs

If weight loss is your goal, then adding protein to your diet is perhaps the single most effective change you can do. Not only will it help you lose, it can also help you avoid re-gaining weight if you ever decide to abandon your weight loss efforts.

There is also some evidence that protein is particularly effective against belly fat. One study showed that the amount and quality of protein consumed was inversely related to fat in the belly. That is, people who ate more and better protein had much less belly fat. Also cut down on carbohydrates. Studies have shown that low-carb diets are particularly effective at getting rid of the fat in the belly area, around the organs and in the liver.

4. Exercise Correctly And Persistently 

Don't do rigorous exercise for some time and then stop. Aerobics (e.g walking, running, swimming, etc) are the way to go. Doing endless crunches/sit-ups religiously in isolation won't help much.

5. Get more sleep

Your body stores fat if it assumes that you’re starving, it stores fat if it assumes you are not sufficiently getting rest. In principle, this allows your body to use the extra fat as vitality when sleep is difficult to find. Get a strong seven to nine hours for each night to keep off the additional fat

Have you tried anything that worked particularly well for you? Please do share your tips in the comment box so we can all learn some more on how to kick belly fat forever!


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