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While being overweight can have negative harmful effects on your health, gaining excess fat around the mid-section and your abdominal area does more harm than simply making your waistband too tight. Health risks such as heart disease, various forms of cancer, diabetes, and other degenerative diseases increase. If you are carrying excess fat around your belly - love handles, beer gut, pot belly or spare tire...call it what you like - you will never be alone with this problem. Many people put on more belly fat as they get older commonly called the 'middle age spread'. Although it has been happening since people are in their 30's and 40's it happens slowly so it can go unnoticed for some time till suddenly you cannot fit your favorite jeans. The awful thing is that belly fat keeps on increasing as the years go by. The eating and exercise habits that keep us slim and trim in our youth are usually not enough to keep the weight off as we get older. Add to this the fact that we tend to become less and less active as the years go by and the excess fat gathers around the waistline. When you finally make the decision to lose weight you pretty much need to accept the fact that you need to make some changes to your lifestyle forever. Going on and off diets harms your metabolism (your body's engine) so when you go 'off' the diet the weight you lost comes back twice as fast and maybe some extra to boot. Everyone wants to take a short cut and lose weight in the fastest way possible. When in reality, the fastest way is usually not the best or healthiest way. The first few pounds are easy to lose but the body quickly puts the brakes on when it senses a drop in food intake and hangs on to its fat stores to avoid starvation. The changes you need to make in your lifestyle are simple really; eat smaller meals of just 200-400 calories each with a portion of protein and the balance vegetables every 3 hours throughout the day. This keeps blood sugar levels stable and your metabolism running at its fastest. This change sounds really easy but needs planning and preparation so these meals are ready in advance. You will have to take a meal or two with you if you go off to work to avoid eating the wrong foods when you get hungry. Add in 2-3 sessions each week of a proper exercise program containing mostly strength training exercise to rebuild lost muscle tissue which is probably the reason for the excess belly fat in the first place. We lose around one half pound of muscle tissue each year if we do not do enough muscle building and maintaining activity. This lowers our metabolic rate, we burn less fuel (calories) and more gets stored in the fat stores. It may take time but if you do it the right way (proper exercise, change in diet) the good part is these permanent lifestyle changes will get that weight off, reduce the health risks and the good thing is it will stay off. This approach beats any yo-yo diet or exercise approach hands down and it gets easier and easier the longer you do it.
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