How to Lose Weight And Keep It Off

Changing your eating habit and lifestyle is the best way to lose belly fat. It is the major key to your fat loss puzzle.

As mentioned earlier here on How to Lose Weight And Keep It Off - The First Step you have to plan in advance to eat healthy and choose the right type of foods that are beneficial for your health.

Here’s an excerpt below of an article “Diet Tips for Abs - Fat Loss for a Six
Pack” written By Mike Geary, author of The Truth About Six Pack Abs.

This just highlights the importance of eating wholesome, nutrient dense foods that are high in protein, healthy fat fiber, vitamins and minerals.

Think of it this way - If you continue to eat ‘crap’ like eating take aways or junk food, you will not lose any body fat … period.

Best Way to Lose Belly Fat

I think that balance is the key to success along with eating a diet that is made up of nutrient dense foods in their natural state (as unprocessed as possible).

In general, it is the heavy processing of foods that makes it wreak havoc inside our bodies. Most foods in their natural unprocessed state are inherently good for us. Of course there are always exceptions… a salad of poison ivy leaves is “natural and unprocessed” but certainly would not be good for us!

I’ll leave your readers with a couple of the most important aspects of nutrition and diet that help to get you lean for life (and have any chance of getting those abs to show)…

1. Get enough quality protein in the daily diet - not only does it have a higher thermic effect than carbs and fat (so you burn more calories digesting it), but it also creates satiety so your hunger is satisfied longer. Plus it’s a building block for maintaining and building lean muscle

… And remember that the amount of lean muscle you carry is one of the main factors for controlling your metabolism.

2. Think fiber! When it comes to carbs, make sure that almost all of your carbohydrate intake is from higher fiber sources like vegetables, fruits, and high fiber unrefined grains. Try to avoid refined sugars and refined grains as that is one of the main reasons so many people struggle with body fat.

I personally don’t eat many grains as I prefer to get most of my carbs from veggies and fruits, but I am a bit of a fan of sprouted grains.

I generally recommend looking for carbohydrate sources that have at least 2-3 grams of fiber per each 10 grams of total carbs. Remember that fiber helps fill you up and also slows down the glycemic response of the foods you eat, all beneficial for getting lean.

3. Don’t be afraid to eat fat! Many people try to go way too low on their fat intake in their diet and this can negatively affect hormone levels in your body as well as causing more cravings. Try to eat enough healthy fats daily.

Good sources are all nuts and seeds, nut butters, avocados, olive oil, organic meats and eggs, coconuts and virgin coconut oil. On that note, saturated fats from tropical oils are VERY misunderstood, even by many nutritionists and other health professionals.

Yes they are composed highly of saturated fats, but are actually beneficial (but that’s way beyond the scope of this article).

4. Avoid the two worst things in our food supply at ALL COSTS:

*artificial trans fats from margarines, shortening, and hydrogenated oils that are in most processed foods

*high fructose corn syrup, which is in almost all sweetened products on the market

Again, if you avoid processed foods, it becomes easy to avoid these two worst offenders in our food supply.

I always contend that once you get a handle on these 4 main points of your diet detailed above, the rest starts to take care of itself as you gain control over your appetite, blood sugar levels, hormone levels, etc. It all falls into place, and you eventually gain total control over how lean you want to get.

Right now, the best way to lose belly fat is ..

Plan to clean up your diet, eat more natural foods, and plan your meals wisely. It is the best way to lose belly fat.

• Plan to cook for a few days worth and store it in the fridge. This will lower the chance of you eating take-aways or any junk food.
• Cut out all the sugary drinks (diet kinds too), sports drinks and commercial juice.
• Cut out the processed foods
• Eat more steam food and vegies
• Eat more fruits
• Drink more water, green tea, smoothies, and fresh home-made juice
• Consider having 4 to 6 healthy mini meals a day (1 plate portions only) to keep you satisfied
• Have the occasional snacks, preferably low fat or the healthy kind - like a handful of almond nuts.
• And be active. If you are unfit, start walking and increase your pace over time. Once you are at a fitness level that warrants more intensive workout look at a combination of interval training and multi movement exercises to slash the body fat
• Lastly be PATIENT. You did not get fat overnight, so don’t expect to lose 20 pounds in 3 days! Take small steps.