Weight Loss and the Belly Fat

Have you noticed that most people will include abdominal muscle exercises in their routines and yet they can never own that coveted 6 pack abs. Did you know that your abdominal muscle is one of the easiest muscles to build?  The problem is that exercising a muscle does not get rid of fat over or around the muscle.

It is important that you exercise your core group of muscles, the major muscle groups which include your legs and back.  You should do some type of stomach exercises but do not make AB exercises the only part of your muscle building routine. Just improving your posture by sucking in your stomach and standing up straight will help. You can increase your metabolism (burn more fat and lose weight) if you do a total body muscle building routine.

In one recent study, researchers measured insulin resistance and compared it to several risk factors for diabetes in men and women: 1)heart-lung fitness;  2) whole-body fatness and 3) abdominal obesity (Diabetes Care, March 2006). Getting rid of belly fat is a big key to wellness and a long healthy life.

Many women think if they do a 1000 sit-ups a day that will get rid of that protruding belly. Since very few of us are willing or able to do a 1000 sit-ups, there is little research to prove that those sit-ups will not do the job. You would have nice firm muscles but they would still be surrounded by fat.

Too many women  after they turn 30 tend to eat less protein and what they don't realize is that protein helps keep your metabolism high. Protein is available from many other sources besides red meat so put that protein back in your diet.

By adjusting your diet to include more  proteins and continuing to do your core muscle exercises you will get the weight lose and that includes losing the belly fat.

You have to eat something to get that metabolism going.  The question is what do you eat and how much.  Protein is essential.  Vegetables and fruits are essential.  Potatoe chips and french fries are not.  You burn fat to fuel the muscle energy and you already have excess fat to provide that fuel. So eat lean and let your fat stores be your major fuel source.

By building more muscle you become a more efficient energy burning machine which means you will burn more fat to fuel that energy. 

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