5 Great Tips For Losing Stomach Fat

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Apart from having a low calorie diet what else can you do to lose stomach fat?
1. - Have your dinners early and at least a few hours before you sleep. Your metabolism is at its lowest when you are sleeping.
You should also avoid eating too many carbohydrates for dinner. Carbohydrates are full of long lasting energy which are great for during the day. However, since your metabolic rate will drop in your sleep, avoid eating lots of them at night. The energy that your body doesn't use will have to be turned into fat. Substitute the carbohydrates on your plate for more protein and vegetables.
2. - Dehydration can make weight loss harder. When the body is dehydrated it may extract water from fat cells; it is unlikely that these fat cells will be burnt for energy until they are hydrated again. Water will also allow you to get the most out of your workouts; a study showed that a 3% drop in dehydration can lead up to a 19% drop in performance! Water is additionally natural appetite suppressant and can stop you from snacking and taking in any unnecessary calories.
Drink a minimum of 2 litres of water a day. If you are exercising regularly you will probably need to drink more water than this.
3. might think; eating regularly will burn more calories than skipping meals. When you skip a meal your body reacts to this by shutting down its metabolism so that you will be in a sort of 'survival' mode. This is the last thing you want when you are trying to burn away your stomach fat.
If you eat small portion / low calorie meals 5-6 times a day, this will keep your metabolism at its highest and will allow you to lose that fat.
4.. When you drink alcohol, the body focuses all its effort on breaking down and metabolizing it. As a result, the body shuts down its fat burning system known as the Kreb's cycle. This means that the calories from the alcohol are likely to be converted into fat.
5.. Regular exercise will speed up fat loss drastically. Alongside a good diet, exercise can burn hundreds of extra calories in a 30-45 minute workout. Another benefit is that your metabolic rate will still be higher for several hours after you finish exercising.
Try and workout for 3-5 times a week and train at a low intensity. Your heart should be around 60-65% of its max heart rate to be in the fat burning zone. The reason for training at a low intensity is that you will be able to last for longer than if you train at a higher intensity. Training for longer will allow you to burn more calories therefore lose more of that stomach fat.
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I'm sure PLBFitness will be delighted by yet another 1-hit-wonder poster filling their post with links to their site. Seems legit.

1. I'm currently the leanest I've been in years, and I regularly eat late at night. If you're in a calorie deficit, then it doesn't matter when you eat, you'll lose weight. The only evidence that eating late at night hinders weight loss or makes people fat is that people who tend to eat late at night also tend to be all-round sloppy eaters, and are in a calorie surplus because of it.

2. I agree with staying hydrated, although I'm not sure it has any direct benefits to weight loss. The main benefit I'm aware of with water is that when you fill up on water, you aren't filling up on juice, soda, or something else that's calorie dense yet no more satiating. There may be some added benefit to cold water, due to thermoregulation, although I'm not sure how cold the water would have to be, and how much of it you'd have to drink, in order for it to reduce your body temperature low enough to warrant an increase in calorie expenditure to keep you alive, since there is a safe range of about 4C.

3. Refer to point 1. Meal timing is metabolically irrelevant, assuming that you already have a healthy metabolism. The argument that high frequency eating boosts metabolism is based on the idea that every time you eat, it increases your metabolic activity. However, this increase in metabolic activity is the result of digesting and absorbing food, and the level of the increase appears to be directly proportionate to the amount of food consumed. So, if you eat a little bit, you'll get a small increase in metabolic activity, and if you eat a large amount, you'll get a large increase in metabolic activity. Therefore, you could eat 10 meals a day or 1 meal a day, and provided the total calories and macro-nutrients are the same, the effect on daily metabolism would be the same.

4. Apparently, the calories found in alcohol itself are rejected by the body as poison. Supposedly, it's the stuff alcohol gets mixed with, or the salty, sugary foods that tend to get eaten with it, that are the problem. I've read so much conflicting stuff on this matter, however, that I'm not solidly convinced one way or another. In any case, I don't drink (which has exactly 0% to do with my fitness or body composition), so it's not something I personally worry about.

5. Exercise does rev up the metabolism while you're training, that's for sure. However, some intelligence may need to be applied to when you exercise, as appetite tends to increase after exercising. I'd recommend training shortly before you'd normally eat anyway. I don't think getting in the "fat-burning" zone is all that important, although racking up calories is obviously advantageous. Higher intensity training (especially strength training) has a good influence on what kind of weight you'll lose, because the more muscle your body believes it needs for survival, the more it'll hold onto muscle mass, thus more of the weight lost will be fat. If you lose 10lb and you don't put much stimulus on your muscles, that 10lb may be 7lb fat and 3lb muscle, since if you have to lose weight, you'll lose whatever's most expendible first. If you train so that your muscle are not expendible, that same 10lb weight loss may be 10lb fat and 0lb muscle -- that's an extra 3lb fat loss. Intense training also burns more calories per minute, although the amount of time spent actually training may be reduced. The flipside to this is that the harder you train, the more hungry you're likely to be after training, so lower intensities may be better for appetite control. And, as you rightly said, lower intensity allows you to go for longer.