What is a good way to lose belly fat for women? What should you do?
Take pills? Have liposuction? Buy that ridiculous gadget you saw on TV? Run on a treadmill every day? Do a bunch of crunches when you wake up? Stop eating? Get hypnotized?
The list of options could go on forever…
But why is this list so big in the first place? Because large profit driven companies want you to believe that the best way to lose belly fat involves some never-before-seen solution.
Here’s the good news: you do not need ANY of this.
All you need is a specialized exercise and nutrition routine that will strip off your belly fat as quickly as possible.
So let me show you the best way to lose your belly fat for good.
How Did It Come To This
Before you discover ways to lose your belly fat, it’s important that you understand what causes it.
Not only will this make you a more informed consumer, but it will also allow you to modify your routine based on life circumstances.
Understanding principles is far more important than understanding details.
So what causes belly fat in women?
- A caloric surplus
- High levels of circulating estrogen
- Elevated insulin
- Elevated blood sugar
- Excessive visceral fat
- Water retention/bloat
- A lack of abdominal muscle tone
- A lack of lean muscle tissue
Now I want you to notice #5 – excessive visceral fat. Because this contributing factor is what makes skinny women have a belly.
It’s one of the primary reasons so many women fail to lose their belly fat. You see, fat isn’t just under your skin, it’s also inside your stomach, around organs.
And this internal fat can make your belly protrude even if you have little fat under your skin. The infamous “beer belly” is a perfect case of visceral fat gone wild – the body absorbs alcohol calories in such a way that visceral fat increases.
Now an effective way to lose belly fat for females is by addressing all of these issues in parallel.
The First Tool: Nutrition
Now before we get into exercise, it’s important that you understand how to eat. Because no matter how hard you exercise, if you are in a caloric surplus (more calories in versus out) you will never lose belly fat.
So the first thing I want you to focus on is caloric load. You have to get the amount of calories you eat under control. Now you don’t want to starve yourself, but you shouldn’t feel full to the rim either.
It’s ok to feel slightly hungry, but you should never get ravenous.
Now a great way to control caloric intake is by keeping a journal of what you eat for about three weeks. Then, according to how fast you are losing belly fat, upward or downward adjust.
To keep your levels of energy high and insulin low, assemble each one of your meals with the following:
- Vegetables – dark colored
- Carbohydrates – slow digesting
- Protein – lean
- Fat – from all the healthy sources
Eating balanced meals like this will help keep insulin and blood sugar low. It will also reduce water retention.
More importantly, it will keep you healthy.
The Backup Plan
But what if the belly fat doesn’t come off?
There are two things you can do.
- only eat beans and legumes as carb sources
- rotate your carb intake
I suggest starting with #1 first and waiting a couple weeks. Whole grains do digest faster than beans and legumes. This translates into more insulin, blood sugar and hunger.
So completely transition into beans and legumes and see what happens.
If you still can’t lose belly fat, consider rotating your carb intake.
To do this, simply restrict carbs on the days you don’t exercise and maintain a regular intake on the days that you do.
You will have to experiment here to find the right amounts because each body reacts differently.
Just make sure you don’t eliminate carbs completely – you’ll enter ketosis.
Ketosis = pure misery.
The Second Tool: Exercise
Eating healthy, balanced and portion controlled meals is not enough here if you want to lose belly fat.
You also have to exercise.
If you don’t exercise and simply restrict calories you could end up with a smaller body that still has a disproportionately big belly!
Plus, exercise will cause a lot of hormonal and metabolic changes that will accelerate your results.
So what type of exercise is best?
Answer: circuit training with weights.
You have to target all the big muscles in your body if you want to lose as much belly fat as possible.
Recall that it’s not possible to selectively lose (“spot reduce”) belly fat. All you can do is put your body in a fat burning environment and wait for it to break down your stores of belly fat.
This is why doing ab exercises all day is not the answer – you don’t burn enough calories and the fat never comes off.
And the best way to burn as many calories as possible is by working all your big muscles. More work translates into more calories burned.
Now the good thing about circuit training is that it allows you target all your muscles in a very short amount of time. It’s the most efficient type of exercise.
But here’s the biggest benefit: one hour of circuit training can make you burn extra calories and produce extra fat burning hormones for days.
No other exercise modality can offer these benefits.
Now to assemble a circuit simply pick one exercise for each of your big muscle groups – chest, back and legs.
And sprinkle the circuits you do towards the end of your workout with some ab exercises. This will prevent you from pre-fatiguing the stabilizing muscles in your core before exercising your big muscle groups.
Try to do 2-3 circuit training workouts every week and leave at least one day of rest in between.
You need to rest because circuit training is very taxing on your body. But this is a good thing because it makes you burn a lot of calories and by extension, allows you to burn more belly fat.
Now you can do some cardio in addition to your circuit training as long as it doesn’t interfere with your recovery. You see, cardio is not as effective as circuit training so it should never interfere with it.
To keep yourself in the safe zone, do a combination of easy and hard cardio. Don’t assume you have to do high intensity cardio all the time.
Your body will not be able to recover.
One more thing: don’t worry about circuit training with weights – you will not turn into a man!
I promise.
Your body does not have the skeletal or hormonal components to gain a large amount of muscle mass.
In fact, slightly increasing your lean muscle tissue will make fat loss easier which in turn will make you smaller.
Paradoxically, women with more lean muscle tissue are smaller than women with less because they are able to maintain lower body fat percentages.
So do not fear the weights.
The Good Way To Lose Belly Fat For Women: Parting Advice
All you have to do is act on the information outlined above.
Excessive analysis and reading will not help you lose belly fat.
Taking action will.
So get started with your program right now and let me know if you get stuck.
Good luck!
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