If you want to eliminate belly fat you have to speed up metabolism, there just isn't any other way around that fact. Answer this question, have you been exercising those abdominals to the point of failure and dieting to the point where a piece of cardboard sounds like a gourmet meal?
If you answered yes and still can't understand why you can't get rid of all that belly flab the reason may be simpler then you think. Your dedication is good but the way you are attacking the problem is not. Your body has a built in fat burning machine called your metabolism, but to tap into it you have to give it what it needs; high octane fuel.
If you speed up your metabolism you will naturally begin to burn away excess body fat which means a slimmer stomach. Diet and exercise are the best way to accomplish this metabolism increase but not in the way you may think. Restricting your caloric intake with a diet and doing hundreds of ab specific exercises is not the way to do this because you cannot target certain areas of your body for fat loss.
Understanding how your metabolism works will better help you see why diet and exercise affects how much body fat you have. Everyday your body needs a certain amount of calories to fuel its processes. Everyone knows you get those calories from the foods you eat and we all know what happens when we eat too many of them.
What many people don't know is that eating to few calories can have a detrimental effect on your ability to lose weight as well. If you starve your body of the calories it needs it will actually slow down its own metabolism because it thinks it is suffering from starvation. This metabolic slow down will result in your body hoarding its fat stores and even adding to them if possible while it starts cannibalizing its lean muscle mass to supply the energy it needs. Not something you want happening when you are trying to burn body fat and lose weight.
If you want to successfully speed up your metabolism here are the three things you need to do.
1. Eat a healthy diet – Your body need nutrient dense food to fuel its daily endeavors. Complex carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins and minerals, and lean protein all have a positive effect on your metabolism. Simply put it takes more caloric energy to digest and process healthy foods then it does the refined and processed fare most people eat today.
2. Lift some weights – Nothing burns calories quite like lean muscle mass. In fact the more lean muscle you have the more calories you burn just maintaining that muscle. This means your resting metabolic rate is higher. Not to mention how much better you'll look as you replace fat tissue with firm muscle.
3. Cardiovascular exercise – A healthy cardiovascular system is also important to any fat burning program. Doing aerobic exercise strengthens not only the heart, lungs and the rest of the cardiovascular system it also burn calories doing so.
There are no two other ways about it, you must speed up your metabolism if you want to eliminate belly fat. With a proper diet and a good exercise program you can start shrinking your midsection and get that flat belly you always desired.
