How to get rid of belly fat - Part 1 - The Diet

To be most effective in this involves both diet and exercise. You shouldn't be suprised by this fact. If you want to find out how to lose belly fat and how to lose it fast, then you have to combine the two for maximum effect. But the methods this solution encompasses might be suprising as they are not normal.

Firstly we will examine the diet portion of things, then we will examine the exercise part.
The fastest and best method to lose excess fat on your stomach is by doing a low carbohydrate diet. This doesn't mean zero carbohydrates as that would be near impossible and stupid as it would be unhealthy. What it means is lowering your need for energy on carbohydrates. What will happen then is your body will burn fat for energy.

You get your every day from these sources in the following order.
1. Carbohydrates
2. Fat
3. Protein

They all can come from food or from stores in the body. So you should lower your carbs so the body switches over to burning fat, which it does after a little time when it accepts the idea. This doesn't mean you can eat lots of high fat food as it doesn't work like that. If you did that you would have plenty of energy from the fatty food and wouldn't burn any of the spare fat off your stomach. On the other hand you don't want to go really low-fat as the body begins to burn its store of proteins for energy. This means you will be burning off muscle tissue and that is no good either.

Muscle tissue burns calories all the time even at rest, just by being there. If someone dieting loses muscle their metabolism slows and the body burns less calories. Needless to say, this situation is a disaster for someone wanting to lose fat.

Under 100g of carbs every day will do it. Below 60g is great.

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