- Get Enough Sleep
One of the many health benefits of getting adequate sleep or rest is that it helps you lose weight in ways you never imagined. There are other health benefits attached to getting enough sleep. So, this isn’t just great advice for shedding unwanted pounds around the midsection. It is quite easy to make excuses as to why you don’t have time to get the almighty eight hours of sleep recommended by physicians or why you don’t really need that amount of sleep, but believe me, it is for your own good.
As you already know, not getting enough sleep/rest leaves you feeling exhausted and hinders your physical performance for the day. It may interest you to know that nervous function, hormone production, and metabolism have a relationship with sleep. Enough sleep promotes hormone production, metabolism and nervous activities while lack of sleep or little sleep has the opposite effect on your body. If your nervous system can’t function at full capacity, you’re far more likely to work slower, stress more, exercise less, get irritated easily, loose focus easily, think slowly and feel uncomfortable. Furthermore, not getting enough sleep/rest can impair the production of key hormones needed by your body for the metabolism of fat cells. Research has shown that those who sleep less gain more weight.
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- Exercise More
Exercise is another key remedy to lose belly fat. Not just any exercise but those exercise that target the belly/mid-section or those that target every part of the body like running, jugging, skipping, etc. I understand that not everyone has the time to spend at the gym every day, but it is still possible to get enough daily activity to help your body burn off unwanted belly fat. You can try sneak in about 5 to 10 minutes of vigorous exercise per day including weekends. Make exercising an integral part of your everyday activities. Examples of workouts that can help you lose belly fat include:
- Dancing to a song.
- Run in a particular place for five minutes.
- Rope skipping.
- Jog around a particular spot e.g. round your table
Chair squatting.
Don’t just start and expect results immediately. The long you perform these exercises each day, the better.
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- Increase your Metabolic Rate
Increase in your body’s metabolism is directly proportional to the burning of fat cells. In other words, a higher metabolism means you’ll burn more calories during your day-to-day activities. Drinking lots of water is a sure way to boost metabolism.
- Eat the Right Foods
There are lots of foods out there that can help burn out fats from the body. Let me share with you some of these foods that will really help you to shed belly fat when included as part of a balanced, healthy diet:
- vegetables
- Lean Meat
- Fat-burning Beverages
- Tea (green tea, black tea, ginger tea, etc)
- Water
- Fruit Juices
- Avoid Artificial Sweeteners
Avoid soft drinks that contain sugar like cola, sweetened malt drink, artificial fruit juice, etc. It’s a well-known fact that simple carbohydrates like white sugar and the corn syrup found in many commercial soft drinks is a leading cause of weight-gain, particularly around the midsection. However, less known is the fact that many sugar substitutes contain chemicals that – when ingested – are stored in and preserved in fat cells.
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- Eat Healthy Fats
Our bodies need essential fatty-acids (EFAs) to properly synthesize the hormones responsible for metabolizing fat stores. Examples of such fats (EFAs) include:
- Coconut Oil
- Cold-water Fish
- Nuts and Seeds