3 Big Problems Stopping You From Losing Belly Fat

I have discovered 3 Big Problems that are stopping most people from losing belly fat and achieving their weight loss goals. To have that flat belly that they aspire to have and to maintain their ideal weight.

1. Your metabolism is all mashed up.

Many years of unhealthy eating and yo-yo dieting have literally broken your calorie-burning furnace. This means that your body just wants to store fat 24/7. The problem with low calorie or calorie restricted diets is that your body thinks that it is under-nourished so it conserves energy by slowing down your metabolism. This means that when you restrict calorie still further, this problem gets worse not better at your body stores even more fat.

2. You are eating the wrong foods.

That bulging beer belly or pooch area or belly fat is in fact not all just fat. The problem is that it also contains pounds of toxic waste as a result of the types of foods that you have been eating that are packed full of additives. Most of the chemical additives that food companies put into their processed foods are highly addictive and are designed to make sure that you want to eat more and more of them. These junk foods are causing your fat storing hormones to go into overdrive which adds yet more to your belly fat bulge. These foods also clog up your digestive system which stops you absorbing the nutrients that your body does need to function correctly.

3. You are overfed but under-nourished.

To keep your body fit both physically and mentally, you need to feed it with beneficial nutrients. Without these, your body cannot fight off diseases like diabetes, heart disease and depression. If your daily diet prescribes foods that are lacking the right nutrients or your toxic waste is stopping those nutrients from being absorbed, your head will always be saying ‘feed me – feed me now’ and you will be desperately fighting those hunger pangs. Your cravings to stuff yourself with even more nutrient deficient foods just make the whole situation even worse in a perpetual cycle.

Do you ever feel hungry all the time in your struggle for beating the bulge and losing belly fat?

Click on the link to see what Nutrition Coach Josh Bezoni says can help you to fix your belly fat problems and start including foods that burn belly fat into your daily meals.

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5 Vegetables That Help Burn Belly Fat

When you are setting out on your How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat eating plan, it is useful to know which foods can actually help you to burn belly fat. You can incorporate them into your meals with confidence that eating is good for you.

Our every day lives are surrounded by chemicals that actually tell our bodies to store more fat, especially around our belly. These range from the pesticides and herbicides in the foods that we buy, to chemicals in household products like cleaners and body sprays etc., and even the pollution in the air from cars, trucks and planes. These chemicals of a type called estrogenics trick our bodies defence system into storing more fat so as to fight them off.

There is one group of vegetables that contains the vital nutrients that will neutralise these estrogenics and these are known as the cruciferous vegetables.

My top 5 cruciferous vegetables are :

  • Brussels Sprouts
  • Broccoli
  • Cabbage
  • Curly Kale
  • Cauliflower

I know, you were always told to eat your greens when you were a kid, but I bet it was not for this reason! The only way I would eat sprouts as a child was smothered in apple sauce!.

The good news is that there are varieties available fresh all year round now and some tasty different ways to cook them with a bit of imagination.

Raw is always best as in crudities with a healthy tomato salsa dip, ideal for broccoli and cauliflower.

Brussels Sprouts, I slice or shred them and add them to stir fries. Good Tip – Buy them still on the stick to keep them fresher for longer, plus you often also get the tops as well which are excellent eaters and full of goodness.

Broccoli and cauliflower in a pasta bake or pasta sauce.

Curly Kale goes well with a hearty beef stew.

Cabbage, well it is universal really, shredded raw in coleslaw, mashed with potatoes and spring onions as colcannon or bubble and squeak, use the leave to wrap parcels of rice or meat mixtures and steamed as in some tasty oriental recipes.

I hope this has given you some ideas on how you can easily and healthily use these 5 vegetables in your daily meal plans and be confident that they are helping you to get rid of belly fat.

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How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat – High Antioxidant Foods To Keep You Healthy

Antioxidants help your body in many ways and are so important in keeping you healthy. From anti-aging to fighting off free radicals responsible for cancers and other diseases, antioxidants play a vital role and improve your results when following a how to get rid of belly fat eating plan.

It is common knowledge nowadays about the health benefits of some high antioxidant foods like Blueberries and Cranberries, but there are some foods that you may include in your how to get rid of belly fat diet that have much higher levels of antioxidants.

You will find that some of the foods with the highest levels of antioxidants are foods that you would maybe not have previously considered. For example, one of the top foods in the list is red beans and this is closely followed by a type of potato.

The red russet potato is one of the highest antioxidant vegetables around. The antioxidants are highest in the skin of this potato so it is best cooked in the skin and then eat the skin as well.

Steaming your vegetables is the best way to cook them and still retain the maximum levels of antioxidants intact. Where possible, eating your vegetables raw is the best option but I would not recommend eating either red beans or potatoes in their raw state.

One fruit or vegetable that does improve with cooking is the tomato and the good constituents in tomatoes are more readily absorbed and used by your body if eaten with olive oil.

Even some herbs and spices are high in antioxidants, the best ones to use include Oregano, Cinnamon and Cloves. Don’t forget nuts and seeds also, my favourite from the top 100 antioxidant list is are Hazelnuts, Pecans,Walnuts and Almonds.

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Quick Easy Exercise For Everyone That Wants to Lose Belly Fat

I don’t normally recommend exercises as such on the How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat diet and healthy eating, lose belly fat, weight loss plan but this is one that anyone can do and you don’t even need to stand up to do it. You can do this exercise while driving, watching TV, lying down in bed or even when sitting at a desk at work. In fact, you can do this exercise virtually anywhere you want. This is so simple and easy to do that calling it an exercise is really over stating it.

Although this exercise may not help to burn the fat, it will help enormously in tightening up your stomach muscles without spending hours in the gym and doing abs crunches and all those other hard work exercises that some people do.  This simple exercise will have the same effects though which will help you to look and feel slimmer around your waist. You will achieve this by strengthening your abdominal muscles and this will help you to hold your stomach  in for longer rather than having what my mother used to call lazy belly syndrome or letting it all hang out!

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Lose Belly Fat

I heard one fitness expert call this exercise ab vacuums and I suppose this is probably a good name for it. As I say, you can do this standing, sitting, kneeling or even laying down so there is no excuse for any of us not to find the time for a few minutes a day. Yes, just a few minutes a day is all that you need to do.

Like most exercises, it starts by taking a deep breath inwards. As you breath out, pull in your belly as far as you can and hold it there. Pretend you are trying to pull your belly button all the way through to your back. Hold it there for 20 seconds before releasing it as fast as you can. Don’t forget to breath in again though, LOL! You can even take a quick breath in during each hold if you need to.

Just keep repeating this move for a few minutes each day and you will start to see results. You will find that you are standing straighter and this will help you to look  and feel slimmer and with no lazy belly syndrome.

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High Protein Foods That Burn Belly Fat

When you are following a How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat eating plan, there are two readily available foods that you can use in your meals which will help speed up your weight loss. These foods that burn belly fat can easily be swapped into your favourite meals to give you faster results.

Firstly, lets start with cheese. One problem with most “diets” that I have tried in the past is being told that I had to stop eating cheese. I love cheese and it’s very much a deal breaker for me if I have to give it up. So I was really surprised to find out that cottage cheese is one of the foods that burn belly fat.

Cottage cheese is low in fat anyway but that is not the only reason why it is so good for weight loss. Cottage cheese is made up of a form of protein called casein. Your body takes a long time to digest this protein and so it keeps you filling fuller for longer. This long digestion period also means that your body is producing amino acids for longer to help this digestion. Higher levels of amino acids help with weight loss as they send signals to your brain to say you are full and so naturally help with your weight control.

Cottage cheese can be used in place of ordinary cheese in most recipes whether it is for a pizza topping or in a salad, burger or sandwich so give it a try.

High Protein Foods that help burn belly fat

Cottage Cheese - High Protein

Secondly, the most versatile form of meat protein has to be chicken breasts. I only use the skinless and boneless ones. Again they are high protein, and low in fat depending on how you cook them. Steaming or baking is probably the lowest fat method and marinating in your favourite herbs and spices transforms it’s flavour.

I often cut the chicken into strips and stir fry with fresh vegetables, especially broccoli, in a little toasted sesame oil.

Also try mincing your chicken and using this in place of beef or lamb mince in cottage or shepherds pies. Fry gently with onions and just 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and add lots of finely diced vegetables and continue to make the pie as normal. I use a topping of mashed sweet potatoes mixed with either mashed butternut squash or beet/swede.

So there you are, cottage cheese and chicken breasts, two readily available yet high protein foods that burn belly fat that will help you to lose weight fast and tasty ways on How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat. Check out the free fat loss videos at http://HowToGetRidOfBellyFatEasy.com

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Healthy Foods That Burn Belly Fat Like Coconut Milk

Foods that burn belly fat include healthy saturated fats like coconut milk and coconut oil. And YES – some saturated fats ARE healthy.

The saturated fat in coconut milk is made up of Lauric acid. Lauric acid has been proven to increase your levels of good cholesterol (HDL) in your blood whilst not raising your bad cholesterol (LDL) so it is great for improving your cholesterol ratio (between good and bad).

healthy foods that burn belly fat

It’s main benefit though is that it boosts up your immune system and so helps to protect your heart and body. In fact, so significant are the effects that further research is being done on people with immune deficient diseases (like HIV and AIDS).

Coconut Oil

Organic Coconut Oil

You can use coconut milk in several ways.

Most people will use it to enrich creamy curries or in Caribbean and Asian dishes. And don’t just use it in your main meals. Why not add it into any meal what ever time of day, your breakfast smoothies, add to yogurts and any foods that involve milk like breakfast cereals including porridge, grits and oatmeal.

Add a swirl of coconut milk to soups for a creamy finish. Make a tasty healthy dipping sauce when mixed with peanut butter and a little chilli.

I’m sure that you can think of favorite dishes of yours that you can include foods that burn belly fat like coconut milk.

How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat – EASY

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Dispelling the Myths about egg yolks vs egg whites

Are egg yolks really bad for you? Should whole eggs be part of a How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat eating plan? Should you just eat egg whites and throw away the yolks?

These are common questions that I get asked frequently.

Recently, I was spending the weekend with friends and on the saturday morning, John was up first and starting to make breakfast for everyone. He started my cracking open all the eggs and separating all the whites from the yolks, keeping the whites in a bowl and throwing all the yolks in the waste bin. When I asked him why, he said – egg yolks are bad for you – all that fat and cholesterol does you no good at all.

I was horrified – “you’ve just thrown the most nutritious part of the egg away!”

So lets put the record straight here and now…

Egg yolks are rich in antioxidants, minerals, vitamins and trace elements. They are a great source of several B vitamins including thiamin (B1), B6 and B12  along with vitamins A, D, E and K. Amongst a myriad of important nutrients, they contain lutein, choline, panthothenic acid and folates and are high in all essential fatty acids including omega 3. They are rich in essential trace elements including zinc, phosphorus, calcium and iron.

Yes, egg whites contain plenty of protein but our bodies require the amino acids that are in the yolks to digest and make use of this protein source efficiently. Also the egg whites only contain 10% of the nutritional value of a whole egg.

“But don’t egg yolks contain loads of cholesterol that will clog up my arteries?”

Scientists have proven that the cholesterol in food has a very minimal affect on raising your blood cholesterol levels. This is because the vast majority of the cholesterol in your blood is actually produced by your own liver. In fact, if you don’t include any cholesterol containing foods in your diet your liver will be driven to produce even more cholesterol as it is vital for a healthy body and is used
in different ways by many of your vital organs.

So it is important that you eat foods containing cholesterol to keep yourself healthy. Your body recognises how much cholesterol from food it is getting and reduces the amount of cholesterol it produces in your liver accordingly. Scientists have discovered during their research that, eating whole eggs has a positive effect as it raises your good cholesterol (HDL) more than your bad cholesterol (LDL) and in so doing, it improves the important ratio of cholesterol between the good and bad types.

“But aren’t whole eggs bad for your heart?”

The cholesterol levels in eggs has also been wrongly blamed as a cause of heart disease because of its dietry cholesterol level. Research now shows that the main cause of heart disease is inflammation and not cholesterol in foods. Egg yolks are high in antioxidants including lutein which is an anti-inflammatory.

“Aren’t there more calories in egg yolks than whites”

Well yes there are but the high nutritional value of the yolks by far exceeds any downside of consuming the extra calories. Having such a high nutritrient level within a high protein food like whole eggs also means that you will feel fuller for longer which helps to stop that mid-morning snack feeling.

In conclusion, eating whole eggs should always be part of your How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat eating plan. All the good healthy fats that are in whole eggs help your hormone levels and make them foods that burn belly fat.

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