Six Tips To Losing Belly Fat

1. Cut out sugary drinks

This includes fruit juice, sports drinks and any drink with added sugar.
This is because the liver can only deal with so much sugar at a time and anything it can’t deal with is turned into fat. Liquid sugar – i.e drinks – are worse because your brain doesn’t register them the same way as it does when you chew food, so it’s possible to consume a lot more calories before you’re satisfied.

Drink water and eat whole fruits instead.

2. Eat the right amount of protein

I find a lot of people are protein deficient these days and don’t even know it, especially as vegetarianism and veganism are so popular now. Eating the right amount of protein is important for your overall health, helps to keep you fuller for longer and will help you build that all important muscle.

3. Increase your muscle mass

Muscle is very thermogenic, this means it requires more calories to survive. The more muscle you have the more calories your body needs and the more excess calories you burn doing cardio and even every day tasks.

4. Do the right kinds of cardio at the right time

Once you have built some muscle you can put it to good use burning calories by doing a combination of HIIT and low intensity cardio.

5. Track your food

Most people are eating a lot more than they think. (Or in the case of protein a lot less!). One of the most common things I hear from people who want to lose weight is ‘I don’t eat that much’ but if that was true they wouldn’t need to lose weight. That is the simple science of it my loves. Keep a food diary for 2 weeks and you’ll have the information you need to start making changes.

6. Relax/get some sleep

The stress hormone cortisol plays a big role in where you store fat and it’s favourite place is the belly. Ensuring you get a good nights sleep and finding ways to unwind (that don’t involve food and alcohol!) can help in the fight against belly fat.