How can you lose your stomach fat?

Eliminate, or strictly limit (apart from the occasional treat), refined processed carbohydrates. You can find a full list of these particular foods further down this page, listed under Related Questions. Refined processed carbohydrates are a major cause of weight gain, obesity, fat accumulating around the stomach or abdomen, insulin resistance, and many diet related diseases.

In addition, exercise to cut the belly bulge is cardio exercise such as brisk walking, steep hill biking, hiking, etc.

Eat smaller meals, eat more meals a day, don't starve yourself, eat more vegetables and fruit, drinks more water, use less sugar and empty calories such as refined carbohydrate foods. Prefer a full body exercises. Get a training partner or a fitness trainer (a very worthwhile investment - of the money you save on junk food for example).

Once you have a plan, set a goal. Keep a "diary" of your belly weight loss, and who knows! The results are endless! Just get inspired and set your mind to it. You might just end up looking like Cameron Diaz!

You should do a cardio work out that will burn fat. Then maintain a balanced diet that is lower in calories than you burn in a day. That way your body does not think that you are starving and begin consuming muscle instead of fat.

There are a few ways by which you might lose your stomach fat. One is various types of crunches. Don't forget to stretch after, though. That's when you really "activate" the exercise. Start with about 2 sets of 20 a day, resting or drinking water in between. Increase by 10 or 15 more every week. Another thing you have to do is eat highly nutritious foods... any weight loss pro can tell you that.

A cardio workout will burn the fat but if your genes dictate that your fat hangs on to your stomach, it will be difficult for the world to discover your six-pack. Oftentimes, our genes dictate where the fat goes. Spot exercising will build the muscle but it may not remove the fat. Our bodies love to hold on to a certain percentage of fat. If we go too low, then our body starts to tear down our muscle -- an effect that works against us.

Drink plenty of water, eat vegetables, fruit and lean meats, in reasonable quantities. Another thing I see is so many people make a mistake of doing cardio first, then weight train. Weight training should be first, then cardio. Weight training requires quick and immediate power sources (carbs are burned easily). Cardio will use leftover carbs if any, then go to fat burning, which is a more complex energy source. Cardio doesn't demand the quick burn of energy weight training does. If you weight train after cardio, then your body burns protein, which is your muscle.

If you want to know if you can get rid of the stomach fat, look at your family and relatives. If no one has a slim stomach, chances are you won't be able to totally lose it. However, if you have relatives with a no-fat stomach, cardio and working out with weights is the best way to define your abs. One other point to remember, the older you get the harder it is to achieve a defined stomach.

From what I understand, there is no way to target a particular area on the body for fat loss. Building muscle in a particular area does not "burn the fat around it." I suggest getting your body in a catabolic state, which is burning more calories than eating. Your weight loss will be a combination of muscle and fat from all around your body (there is also no way to just burn fat). Once you have lost enough weight, build muscle to reduce your body fat percentage and target those abs and maybe they'll show right through! In not possible to spot reduce fat in just one part of your body like your belly so to lose belly fat you will need to lose the fat all over your body.

Spot reduction of fats is not possible in my opinion. Let me give you an example. If you pick up a mug of water from a tub of stored water, where does the water come into the mug? Is it from the top, bottom or where? Similarly it's tough to judge the spots from where fats are pulled out. Nature knows best and the laws of nature cannot be broken either. So when you do sit ups, it induces work from the stomach muscles and tones them up. But the calories burnt will never be pulled from abs alone. It will be pulled out from the whole body. So for natures choice, the fats will be pulled out lastly from the mid section.

A good approach to attain your physical goal would be to do cardio activities like walking or jogging thrice a week. Train abs and other body parts on non cardio days. Something like on Monday, Wednesday and Friday do weight training and abs, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday do cardio, and rest on Sunday.

Cardio Exercises + Abdominal Exercises + Healthy Diet (plus eliminate or strictly limit refined carbohydrates/processed carbohydrates) is the best way to lose belly fat. If possible, do some strength training exercises as they improve the body metabolism and hence you can lose more fat. Fiber and water are the two key ingredients to losing fat if your not working out.

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