Are you trying to reduce that pesky belly fat? I’m sure you’ve heard that sit-ups and crunches are the way to do it, as these exercises use the abdominal muscles. Although it’s absolutely true that sit-ups will strengthen the abdominal muscles and make you stronger in that area, and you may look slimmer because your better muscles hold on to fat better, it may actually reduce belly fat. does not do.
For a complete and long-lasting solution to reducing belly fat, we need to look at how the body works and is actually able to lose weight. The simple fact is that if you want to lose weight – from any part of your body – you need regular exercise. That doesn’t change the fact that the most obvious and visible area of excess fat on your body is your belly. When you haven’t exercised enough, or overeat for a long period of time, the belly is one of the areas that naturally shows more than others. Similarly if you start exercising and lose weight, it will disappear rapidly from the same abdominal area. So no special “abdominal exercises” are really necessary – just healthy exercises!
Apart from exercise, diet plays an important role in losing or gaining weight. You can exercise but still find that you are gaining weight if you are eating poorly or in excess. Therefore both exercise and diet are needed to achieve the full effect. You need to adjust your diet so that you are burning more calories than you are consuming, at which point you begin to “burn” calories stored in your body as fat. Obviously changing your diet to reduce the amount of calories you are consuming helps, as does reducing the actual amount of food you eat if you are eating excessively. .
The key to losing belly fat is actually quite simple, and there’s really no secret or special program — exercise, and eat less (and eat well). So the two major action points are to first reduce the calories you eat, either with smaller amounts of food or with low-calorie foods. Second, do some physical exercise every day. Do this and you will reduce that belly fat!
