How to Lose Belly Fat and Love Handles
Losing your belly fat will depend on several factors:
- Your diet
- Cardio training
- Strength training for fat burning
First and foremost, how is your diet and how are your eating habits? Do you know how much calories you burn each day and how much calories you consume each day? For sustained fat loss, you should aim for a slight daily calorie deficit. After all, you won't lose any weight or fat if you have a calorie surplus.
Your goal should be to increase your metabolism by increasing your frequency of meals - aim to eat 5 to 6 small meals each day. Calorie shifting is another way to help maintain or increase your metabolic rate. Avoid highly refined and highly processed carbohydrates such as white flour. Opt for foods that have a low glycemic index.
Eat lean proteins from white meats such as chicken, fish and seafood, and turkey. When preparing your meals, trim the visible fat and skin from your meats, this helps to reduce your intake of bad fats. Always consume plenty of vegetables and fruits, and finally, get your daily requirement of fats from healthy fats such as nuts, olive oil, and fish oil.
To lose belly fat and love handles, your goal is to create a calorie deficit on a daily and weekly basis, and this can be achieved through a combination of slightly reducing your calorie intake, and increasing your amount of calories burned through cardio vascular exercises. Doing cardio training will improve your cardio fitness, help increase your metabolism, and ultimately help you reduce body fat - this will be a fat reduction all over the body, not just your mid section. Remember, you can't spot reduce.
Finally, one of the best ways to burn fat, is to lift weights and follow a strength training program. This not only helps you build muscles, but it will also help improve your overall physical fitness, and increase your metabolism. As we mentioned earlier, all the ab crunches you do will not do much to get rid of your belly fat nad lose handles - not while they're covered by a layer of fat. Strength training naturally requires a very high level of physical effort, and will work to increase your metabolism leading to more fat burned.
If your goal is to lose belly fat and lose love handles, slightly change your goal to lose body fat on your entire body. Get setup on the right foot and learn the real method behind true fat loss, and keep the fat loss permanent.
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