Ways To Lose Belly Fat – And Sit-Ups Are Not The Answer

Are you attempting to lose that irritating Belly Fat?  I’m sure you’ve heard that sit-ups and crunches are the way to do it, because those exercises use the abdominal muscles.  However although it is absolutely true that sit-ups will reinforce the intestinal muscles and make you stronger in that area, and you can look thinner because your improved muscles hold in the fat better, this doesn’t really reduce belly fat in itself. 

For a complete and long lasting solution to how to lose belly fat, we want to look at the way the body works and how it is able to actually lose weight.  The straightforward fact is if you’re going to lose weight – from any part of your body – you need regular exercise.  The indisputable fact that the most obvious and visible area of excess fat in your body is your belly does not change this fact.  When you do not exercise enough, or over-eat for a long period, one of the areas which naturally shows this excess more than others is the belly. 

In a similar way if you begin to exercise and lose weight, it’ll disappear quickest from the same belly area.  So no special “belly exercises” are essentially necessary – just healthy exercise! 

In addition to exercise, diet plays a critical role in losing or gaining weight.  You can exercise but still find you are gaining weight if you are eating extraordinarily badly or in big quantities.  So both dieting and exercise are required to get the full effect.  You need to adjust your diet so you are burning more calories than you consume, at that point you begin to “burn” the calories stored as fat in your body.  Obviously changing your diet to cut back the amount of calories being consumed helps, as does reducing the actual quantities of food you eat if you have been eating excessive amounts. 

The key to losing belly fat is actually quite easy, and there actually is no secret or special program – exercise, and eat less ( and eat well ).  So that the 2 key action points are firstly to cut back the calories you eat, with smaller amounts of food or lower calorie foods.  Secondly each day perform some physical exercise.  Do this and you may lose that belly fat! 

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