One big sign of an unhealthy body is belly fat. No one wants it and you don’t want it either. Belly fat is at times also linked with heart diseases, diabetes and even cancer. More than a 35 inches of waist in case of women, and, more than a 40 inches in the case of men is considered alarming.
So how to lose belly fat effectively and sustainably? As it turns out, there are two facets of the strategy, balanced diet and physical exercise.
You have to be aware of the way the body consumes energy, before you can be on the marks to lose belly fat. The natural order of energy consumption in the body is carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Since you want to lose belly “fat”, you have to burn more fat. In order to achieve that, you will have to turn your body into a fat burning machine. How? Well, you will cut down on your carbohydrates (commonly called, carbs), so that the body’s metabolic mechanism is not left with a choice but to resort to fats. Simple eh!
However, it is important to note that you don’t need to bring your carbohydrates intake down to zero. A 60g to 100g of carbs intake daily is reasonable while you are set out to lose belly fat.
The other facet of the strategy is physical exercise. But what kind of physical exercise? It can’t be just any kind, right? Well, there is a huge misconception that regular and thorough cardiovascular exercise is what you need to lose belly fat. This is totally wrong and fallible. What is important is that your fat-burning diet plan must be supported with a fat-burning exercise routine.
To lose belly fat, the exercise approach you should adopt, is called “interval training” or “high intensity interval training”. What is this? In this kind of routine, any cardiovascular exercise is performed with varying intervals of low and high intensity. Statistics clearly show that interval training gives best results in terms of losing belly fat.
So here we have it. A simple belly fat-burning program. To summarize, it is all about using the body’s metabolic process to burn fat instead of carbs, and doing exercise that boosts that very metabolic mechanism. Last but not the least, consistency pays off well in whatever you do, and losing belly fat is no exception.