Bodybuilding Fat Loss

Saturday, May 24, 2008

How To Lose Belly Fat Without Weights

One the the biggest mistakes I see people make when trying to lose belly fat is spending far to much time on abdominal exercises and at just over all lifting weights or working out. Now this isn't to say that exercise isn't important, and we should exercise every day. How ever, lifting weights alone and working out isn't going to melt belly fat away.

Where belly fat loss begins

To learn how to lose belly fat you need to start in the kitchen. It's to many calories that put the extra weight on your body, and it's calories that are going to have to jump start the process to take the fat off.

The obvious thing to do up front is to look at what you're eating. Here are some specific things to look for

Are you eating 6-8 servings of Fruits and Vegetables each day
Are you drinking 6-8 glasses of water a day
Do you eat a lot of high fat snack foods (i.e. Chips, crackers, cookies)
Do you eat after dinner in the evenings quite often
Are you eating a lot of crabs such as rice and potatoes?

This isn't a definitive list but it's a start to look at when evaluating your current diet, and a must to look at if you want to know how to lose belly fat without weights.

How to lose belly fat without hours of exercise

Why does lifting weights and exercise help you lose weight? Because it burns more calories off then your body will just on it's own during the day. How ever when you're only avenue to fat loss is exercise you're not going to be very successful. You need to change your diet in order to start melting the pounds off. So here's a basic plan for how to lose belly fat starting today.

1.) Track everything you eat for a week, and the number of calories associated with it. You don't want to cut everything out so that it looks like you're actually eating less. Although cutting out those high fat snack foods and other empty calories won't hurt.

2.) Calculate the average number of calories you've been eating over the past week.

3.) By doing a simple search online for a calorie calculator determine your ideal number of calories to consumer each day. You'll likely be surprised how few it is.

4.) Cut your calorie intake from the average you calculated in step two, to 500 less then you're suggested daily intake.

Why cut calories by 500? It takes about 3500 calories to lose 1 pound of fat. If you cut your daily calorie intake by 500 calories, over 7 days that will be 3500 calories. Meaning you should lose one pound of belly fat each week. Now here comes the exciting part.

This process will have you losing weight without weights, how ever if you combine this concept with exercise, which burns more calories, you'll lose even more weight each week and still get to eat the same amount.

So the takeaway from this article is, don't exercise for hours a day if you haven't first changed your diet and modified it to be fat loss friendly.

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