Why is it so hard to lose belly fat?

mdstang

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Weight loss is Americans #1 health issue. It leads to more medical problems than I can count. Everyone wants the perfect body the flat stomach and physically fit. But in reality with the food choices we have and the long work days make it very difficult to eat right and get the proper excercise needed to stay fit and slim. These are the primary factors that make it difficult to lose your stomach.

Some have given up the fight of losing weight and have accepted some type of excuse may it be truth or not. We have heard so much about the genetics of some people making it difficult to lose and easy to gain weight. This is true in some cases but not all that claim this fact is correct. For many of us our body reacts to certain foods differently than others, therefore we have to find and understand what effects the foods we eat have on our bodies.

Change your way of Thinking
Realize you are surrounded everyday by products that have been told to us that are healthy for us but in reality it is packing more fat on to your stomach. You may have thought whole wheat foods and soy milk are good for you but think again these foods could be increasing your belly fat. Second this will save you hundreds of dollars, please stop using the Fat Burner Pills you are not going to find magic in a pill they do not burn stomach fat at all. It will actually damage your body over a period of time and could be addictive because they are stimulants. Third as we all can relate running, riding the bike and other forms of cardio workouts that are preached in magazines and fitness trainers is not the only and most effective way to get you where you need to be.

The truth about belly fat and losing it is all about training your mind. What are the hardest things that pleague us when we are trying to get fit? First is the cravings for the foods we are used to eating that have gotten us to this point in the first place. Second junk food everyones nightmare. Third the times of day we eat. These 3 things is the hardest things for us to deal with when we are trying to loose weight and the dreaded belly fat.

Preparing your Mind and Body for Weight Loss
One of the most fasinating things about weight loss is the mind has to be in the weight loss state I call it before you can have a chance at meeting the goals you have set. The first thing you do is tell yourself there will be a reward once a week to eat your favorite thing in moderation of course. You should never go into a weight loss program trying to cut everything you like completely out. You are just setting yourself up for failure. There can always be a balance that keeps you on track. The truth about Abs video will explain in details on mind set.

Now your stomach at a normal size is about the size of your fist. But along with your weight gain your stomach has stretched beyond its normal size therefore giving you a feeling of hunger when it does not fill like it is full. So if your constantly trying to keep your stomach that is stretch filled to that point of course naturally your going to take in more calories than your body needs and your going to constantly try to get that comfort feeling of being full. Here is where some techniques of how to eat and certain foods that will achieve that feel there for tricking your body into thinking that your full there allowing you to take in less calories and feel satisfied at the same time.

Examples: I know that feeling of not feeling full and wanting to eat more so I tried eating certain foods in the morning that help me achieve that feeling. I would eat a cup of oatmeal and every to hours eat a half of a sandwich by the time lunch comes around I will not be really hungry because I kept my matabilism going and it felt like I was eating all the time but yet I only ate 2 sandwichs for the day. Once you are working out this will help quite a bit when you start craving for sugar eat an apple which will calm the craving and is very filling. Look for [ spam removed ] and not think it is starving (which makes it start storing more fat) and speeds up your metabilism.
 
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I believe sometimes people might even have the right mindset, but are still not able to lose belly fat. The problem seems to be that there are so many people who seem to be "experts" and act like they have all the answers to the questions. However, most of the people you will find have no idea what they are talking about giving suggestions like eat less or do 100 sit ups if you want to get abs.

If you wish to lose belly fat you got to do it the right way. You need to have a healthy diet and proper exercise, but what is a healthy diet and proper exercise, that really depends on you.

What's the difference between those who lose weight and those don't. The ones that do listen to real professional fitness experts. The rest listen to every other self proclaimed expert who has no idea what they are talking about, get discouraged and think they cannot lose belly fat.
 
Your body doesn't care what you look like. It has no idea. Your body's goal is to survive. So in order for you to make sure that it does what you want it to do ,which is to burn the fat on your belly, you need to make sure that you're going through the right steps so that it can do that easily.
 
If you are looking for advice on how to lose stomach fat then following these tips and tricks will help you to lose that gut.To lose stomach fat you have to throw out the junk food! You are what you eat, so don’t eat junk. Do not keep junk food like cookies, chips, sweets and other similar products in your house.
 
The reason its so hard to lose "belly fat" is that our expectations are too high.

We allow ourselves to hold onto a normal amount of fat on our chest, arms, even thighs, but we don't feel its OK to have any fat on our stomach: the phrase "if you can pinch an inch", the idea that we should see clearly a 6-pack, the airbrushed model images which have no belly roll- even after curling themselves into a ball...and we expect the exact same thing for ourselves.

We need to realise that fat does sit on the belly, and around the middle and even within muscles. We basicly to lose it evenly across the body, give or take the odd percentile which is probably caused by things like cortisol (stress hormone bought on by loads of cardio and worrying about the size of our waist), but we just expect to be so slender around the waist that its often impossible to achieve, and then we blame it on unfair genetics.
 
Well to the OP, and others here, I think there is some stuff here that is probably true, and some that (at least for myself) is just flat wrong.

The part about
The first thing you do is tell yourself there will be a reward once a week to eat your favorite thing in moderation of course.

Ha ! Yea' right ! Moderation has no part in my vocabulary ! If I were a moderate kind of person, I'd have never become obese in the first place !
I have to eat, sleep, and breathe health and fitness 24/7 ! My reward is coming now, and will continue for the following years, when I wake up, and look in the mirror each morning.... when I bend over to tie my shoes.... when I pull up beside a cute girl, smile, and she smiles back ;) (I love it when that happens :)LOL

As far as belly fat.... Sure, I want to get rid of the rest of it. I want wash board abs. And yesterday, would not be soon enough. But in reality, I have to look at how far I've come in only 9 months. The measurement at my fattest point (probably about 8 inches above my belt) was about 50 inches, 9 months ago. It's about 36 inches right now.

I said this in my other post about AADD and OCD, but I think the reason it's so hard for most people, is that they think like a normal person.... meaning, they have / find lots of other things to concern themselves with, as well. Where for myself, about 90% of the thoughts playing over and over in my head, all day long, are about health and fitness, diet, weightlifting, cardio.....

Anything becomes easy, when you just forget the rest of your life, and obsess over it all day, every day. Pretty whacked, huh ? But it's not like I really have a choice.

Sighhhhhh....
Fish
 
I have read your valuable description about the belly fat. It is nice explanation. I am appreciated for your valuable description. I am agree with you that first step is that change the thinking of the mind. It is necessary requirement.
 
I am not an expert. I am not overweight, in fact the opposite, but I had a belly. One of the culprits was the beer that I have not taken since last year. In my case too, rice is the main ingredient. I usually stop eating before feeling completely full. And I started taking long walks every day. Now I find that my belly has dropped 1.5 inches.
 
Since there is no such thing as "spot reduction", losing body fat that's located near/around the belly isn't any easier or harder than losing fat that's located anywhere else on the body.

In lines with what Fish_Chris has already been mentioned, commonly used terminologies such as "moderate", "normal portions", "loose-fitting clothes", etc. are poor metrics, as they describe nothing, specifically, and thus are not useful WTR to providing clear instructions to someone seeking advice.
 
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