The simple fact is that if you eat more calories than your body can use for energy, excess calories are stored as fat in your body, especially in the belly. Most people think that doing the exercise, they can get rid of their body fat. That's only half the story. To burn your fat more efficiently, you have to combine physical activities such as exercise and good eating habits.
There are others who think the best way to get rid of belly fat is to do many core exercises like abdominal crunches and leg developers. It could not be more wrong! This is not the way to get rid of your belly fat. Instead, the belly may look bigger when your abdominal muscles grows beneath the fat. Ouch!
Many people do not understand the correlation of hormones in body fat storage. One example is cortisol. Cortisol is also known as the stress hormone. When you're under stress, your body releases more cortisol. This hormone causes your body to store fat and burn your muscle for energy. This makes your metabolism slower and thus its ability to burn fat is reduced.
So what should you do to reduce your belly fat faster? First, avoid eating anything with sugar in them, such as soft drinks, beer and ice cream. If you're the type who regularly consume sweet things, like drinking your coffee and tea loaded with sugar, you will get results very quickly when you stop consuming these drinks and foods.
Then, avoid sweets and candies. Cakes, cookies, pies and the like have very high glycemic carbohydrates. This easy to digest carbohydrates causes insulin levels to surge to very high. This is when your body begins to store more fat, especially in your abdominal area. Moreover, many such foods are fatty, which is the type of unhealthy fat and not talk about their high sugar content.
Lift weights to build muscle. The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism.The higher your metabolism, the faster your body burns fat. In other words, if you have more muscle mass, you're a fat burning machine, naturally. Also, when you are lifting weights, especially when you're working with compound exercises, you're also burning fat and calories at the same time.
What happens next is that your body needs to recover from exercises that gave him and repair muscles. This is when the calories you eat are channeled away to repair your muscles for the next day instead of being stored as body fat. If you add cardio exercises strict in the equation, you get rid of your belly fat sooner or later.
