How to lose stubborn belly fat

Belly fat is often a very stubborn part of body to lose weight on, especially surface belly fat. Even the thinnest layer of belly fat can be hard to lose fully. There are some methods and training tactics you can take to start losing fat on this area effectively and in this article we’ll unravel some of these tactics you can start using today!

The first method of losing stubborn belly fat involves tweaking your diet. If you generally eat three large meals a day this is a really negative approach to successful weightloss. Eating any large meal alone will damage your metabolism. Your body simply cannot process large meals efficiently.

A simple approach to this problem is to eat smaller, more frequent meals daily. How frequent? A small, fist sized meal every 3-4 hours is ideal for keeping your metabolism stoked throughout the day. You will want to keep your metabolism active all throughout the day as this is the body’s natural fat burning mechanism. Eating smaller, more frequent meals will help ensure that your metabolism is always active and working with you instead of against you. The next step is to modify the ingredients in your diet. A diet rich in lean protein and vegetables is ideal. Vegetables are great to mix in with chicken, beef, turkey, etc. A great alternative to cooking with oil is to use a cooking spray such as Pam. You can also substitute one meal daily for a protein shake.

A lot of fitness professionals advise against calorie counting but if you truly want a fool proof way to measure your weightloss then perhaps calorie counting is not such a bad idea. For regular fitness training for weightloss I’d highly recommend interval cardio workouts. Instead of doing standard boring cardio workouts that are flat in intensity you can increase the intensity intervals to kick it up a notch and burn calories more effectively. You start out by doing 5 minutes of warming up then accelerating as hard as you safely can for 1-2 minutes. Then you simply go back down to the normal pace for 1-2 minutes. Rinse and repeat until the entire workout is done. 20 minutes daily is good enough to get a really great workout. You really do not need an entire hour long cardio session to get a great, calorie burning workout.

Performing interval cardio training 3-5 times a week for 20 minutes alone will be good enough to kick start your metabolism into overdrive. You will also want to build lean muscle mass since muscle weighs more than fat. Muscle training every other day is a really simple method for achieving a great, lean body.

With the methods outlined above you will lose stubborn belly fat in no time and the surface belly fat will start disappearing literally! You will want to add various sit-ups to the mix to achieve a defined six pack. 50 standard crunches, 50 leg raises and 50 oblique’s on each side will do the trick.