Obesity and peoples weight appear more and more in the news each year. This appears to be due to a general trend of peoples weight increasing year on year, and western cultures eating more fast food and reducing levels of activity. Weight and health are closely linked, and while you may wish to lose belly fat for your appearance, the effects on your health are much more important.
Some people convince them selves that the gain in weight and fat was not their fault, and they are just ‘big boned’ or ‘it’s my hormones’. Though this is true in some cases, most of the people that make these claims, it’s a self-prognosis, so they don’t have to accept responsibility.
What you need to try and trace is the point at which your weight gain become an issue, as this will help you to lose the belly fat quicker. If you can identify this point, you can reverse the changes to your diet and or exercise, which will provider quicker results than starting from scratch.
So why do you now have belly fat? It could be due to changes in your food, a reduction in your daily activity levels and also changes to your metabolic system. Your metabolism can slow, and this means you are burning less energy on a daily basis than before.
You are what you eat, its sound like an obvious statement, but its true and more people need to accept it. If you eat fat and sugar, you will… drum roll… become fat! Therefore you did need to watch what you eat, or more importantly read the label on what you eat.
To improve your diet, learning how to cook is a vital skill. Or I suppose the vital skill is learning how to cook food, which tastes nice, but does not have the same levels of fat and sugar as normal. It is possible and some foods can taste almost exactly the same, and is part of the reason for the phase ’empty calories’.
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