Thursday, January 22, 2009

Lose Your Belly Fat in 3 Steps

By Ramsey Galen

I'm sure that you have heard hundreds of times how easy it is to lose weight. As a matter of fact, any infomercial is going to show you dozens of people who use their program in order to watch the weight fall off of them and suddenly they have the body of their dreams.

I don't mean to burst your bubble here but many of the things that they are trying to sell you do not work as well as what they say that they do. Yes, they may help you lose weight but they are not something that you're going to be able to incorporate into your life on a permanent basis.

You must do three specific things if you want to improve your appearance and get rid of your belly fat. You're going to have a difficult time sticking with it and losing the weight permanently,if you skip any one of these steps. It is not something that you will be able to maintain long enough to see permanent results,although you may be able to use one of these on their own in order to lose weight.

Your primary goal must be to learn, or possibly re-learn, about your area of interest. Simply information that is given to us by the weight loss industry is much of the information that we get on a regular basis about diet and weight loss.

These people are not interested in you losing weight on a permanent basis,unfortunately. Some companies would prefer you to stay fat so you keep buying their products. Learn about the real reasons you are gaining weight. The probable reason is a combination of an inactive lifestyle and bad eating habits. But it is the truth,I know that doesn't sound very exciting.

The next thing that you're going to have to do is to begin eating properly. There are plenty of different ways that you can eat in order to lose weight effectively but it really boils down to the amount of calories that you are taking into your body.

Although this waas considered good thirty years ago, people try to avoid it these days. Calories are energy and if you're taking too many into your body, the energy is going to be stored as fat. You will lose weight steadily and reduce your calories by about 500 to 1000 below your daily needs.

Finally, you need to make sure that you are exercising regularly. It is not really necessary for you to hit the gym on a daily basis but it wouldn't hurt if you do a little bit of light weight lifting. Don't worry about bulking up, that's not going to happen unless you go to an extreme with it. By putting a little bit of lean muscle mass on your body, however, you're going to be burning extra calories every hour of the day, even while you sleep. - 16004

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