Tips To Lose Weight

Weight Loss : How to burn belly fat

How to lose belly fat is a question that is asked by hundreds of visitors daily. Belly fat or abdominal fat not only de-shapes an otherwise beautiful person but also raises the risk of many metabolic life-threatening diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease etc. It adds an extra burden to the body causing joint pain.

Belly fat is masking the muscle definition. It won't go away by any amount of ab crunches. spot exercises will not burn spot fat. You should do cardio exercise like cycling, jogging or swimming and most importantly, you should cut down carbs and fat and totally avoid junk food. Here are some tips:

• Eat several small meals

instead of two or three big meals, eating several (5 to 6) smaller meals will help you get rid of belly fat easily and improve your metabolism Start the day with large breakfast and end the day with smallest dinner (may be a cup of milk plus half fruit

• Eat More Protein. Eat egg whites.

Cut down calories in terms of junk food, carbs and fat, add 5 to 10 egg whites and 1 whole egg

• Eat fat burning food

Add peeled cucumbers, tomatoes in place of white bread or pasta in your plate. Most veg salads consume more energy to digest than the energy the provide. They are fat burning foods.

• Eat healthy fat

Healthy fat doesn't make you fat. Eating moderate amounts of healthy fat actually helps fat loss. You should not eat zero fat foods. You should eat natural fat containing foods like peanuts, almonds, cashew nuts, flax seed chutni (Indian flax seed powder with garlic, red chilli, pepper, salt etc.). These nuts and oil seeds have essential fatty acids and flax has omega-6 fatty acid.

• Drink more water

Drink plenty of water everyday, because the body works most efficiently when it is sufficiently hydrated. Bodys energy (fat) is used to filter water in the kidneys, thereby burning fat.

• Limit Alcohol Consumption

Alcohol in any form is empty calories. Zero nutrition, or rather, negative nutrition. If at allyou should drink, consider wine consumption in moderation. (Resveratrol!)

• Exercise regularly

Cardio workouts burn fat. Some good workouts for burning fat include brisk walking, jogging or running, dancing, swimming and outdoor cycling.

• Exercise helps lose fat effectively and permanently
• Exercise boosts metabolic rate
• Exercise brings out the feel good factor in you by causing the body secrete certain hormones like endorphin
• If you can do exercise for a period of 30 to 40 minutes continuously, your body will continue to burn calories for hours even after you have stopped exercise.
• Exercise boosts your immune response, meaning that you visit your doctor less frequently