Lose Belly Fat Fast

You hear it every where – the key to losing weight is diet and exercise. But which exercise exactly are effective weight loss exercise? There are so many work out programs with completely opposite advice – some tell you to do lots of cardio, others tell you to hardly do any, some tell you to use weight training, others tell you to stay away from it. There is enough information out there to make your head spin, and yet after spending hours you won’t be any closer to the answer you are looking for than you were when you started.

So I figured explaining what makes for a great, effective weight loss exercise is a good place to start. Now you are probably waiting for me to list a bunch of exercise and claim that those are the best ones to do. Well, I am afraid you will be disappointed as I am not going to do it. Instead I will explain what makes a given exercise effective and why they differ for different people, or even for the same person over a period of time.

An exercise (or a combination of several) can be considered good for weight loss if it gives you a great work out. What do I mean by a good work out? A work out when you feel pretty tired and one where you burn a lot of calories. However, this obviously depends on each person and their levels of fitness, what might be a great work out for one person may not even be a good warm up for another. And that is the reason why there isn’t the best exercise or the best work out routine.

If you are carrying a hundred plus extra pounds, then just about any exercise will burn a ton of fat. Going up a flight of stairs is an exercise in itself, go up 10 times as fast as you can and sweat will be pouring from you like it’s raining. Yet as your level of fitness improves and your body adapts, doing the same 10x going up a flight of stairs won’t do much for you at all. And eventually you will reach a point where it does practically nothing at all as far as losing weight goes.

That’s actually one of the problems with running for weight loss – your body adapts and you end up having to run for longer and longer periods of time to get the same results. And who wants to run for 3 hours?! The solution for having a good work out that doesn’t take hours is increasing intensity and getting closer to maximum effort. In other words as you become more fit you will likely want to look at interval training and weight training, as well as sprints or other similar exercise.

However the same interval or weight training that is great for a fit person trying to lose some weight isn’t all that good or even harmful for a person with a low level of fitness. Interval training will cause more problems than you care to know about, and weight training doesn’t give the best bang for the time spent when running a few hundred feet is “hard” and makes for a good work out.

I hope that you found this informative and that it clarifies the seemingly conflicting advice that different weight loss programs give. You should also use this information to adjust your own work outs. As your body adapts and your fitness level improves, the work out routines that were once great will become less and less effective. You need to adjust and change things up or you will find yourself spending more and more time to get the same results.

It may sound a bit surprising, but losing weight is very, very simple. It’s not however easy to do. And because it’s not easy many people will run around the simple weight loss methods and instead try to find a short cut that is both simple and easy. But people who want to get results without putting much if any effort into achieving them is a subject for another discussion. What I’d like to do in this post is discuss why weight loss is so simple.

It’s simple because it’s not the type of rocket science that weight loss companies seem to want you to think it is. Weight loss, or gain is a function of a human body. It works in a very straight forward, none complicated way – when you have excess amount of calories your body stores them as fat. When you have a lack of calories your body burns fat to get the extra calories (energy) you need. That’s all there is to it.

But no, people want to complicate it, bring in metabolism and what have you into the equation without addressing the underlying fundamentals. For you to drop pounds your body must burn fat, but for it to do so there must be a calorie shortage. No shortage – no reason to burn fat – no weight loss. As such you must create a calorie shortage to force your body to burn the extra pounds.

How do you do it? Simple your get less calories than you spend, in other words you eat less and exercise more. It is possible to do just one thing either diet or exercise, but the best results come when you do both, doing both will also have the most positive effect on your over all health. Trying to do create calorie shortage by working out more without a good diet is often a total waste of time – no matter how many calories you burn during a work out you can always eat even more.

And trying to diet without exercising sounds like a good idea, but it doesn’t actually work. What happens is when you switch to a new, low(er) calorie diet your body puts up a red flag and instead of burning the fat it starts to conserve as much energy as possible. By working out you can over come it and force your body to get the extra energy by burning fat, which is your goal.

This is of course where we run into the “not easy” part. Following a healthy diet means you have to stop eating your favorite junk food. And exercising means that instead of watching TV or playing video games or what ever, you have to go to a gym and exercise. And that can be very difficult, especially if you don’t have the right mind set for weight loss. However, this is the part you should focus your efforts on.

So instead of asking “How can I lose weight?” ask yourself “Am I willing to do the things required to lose weight” If the answer is yes then you will. If the answer is no, well, good luck in your search for that magic pill!

Mind Set – perhaps a somewhat unusual subject when it comes to weight loss. I mean, everyone is so concerned about their diet and work out program, what diet pills or vitamins to use etc etc that no one seems to even think about the mind set one must have to lose weight. That’s right, there is a certain mind set that you need to have to lose weight. Without it all the diets and work outs in the world won’t get you the lean body you want.

So, what kind of mind set does one need to lose weight? Well, for once you need to change your thinking about weight loss from something you do to lose weight, then go back to what you were doing before, to a permanent change in your life style. Changing your habits is of course not easy. So you have to be prepared to make those changes that may be difficult, especially at first. But above all you need to realize that those changes are good for you – eating healthy (and avoiding junk food) and exercising often – those are good things.

You also need to decide whether losing weight is important to you or not. I mean, anyone who is over weight would say that getting rid of the extra fat is important to them. But their actions sure don’t seem to reflect it. Sitting on a coach eating junk food and talking about how you’d like to lose some weight and get a nice toned body isn’t going to do anything. If you want to drop pounds then your actions need to reflect that desire.

If you say that you want to lose fat, you better start doing things that will result in you losing weight. And you have to be prepared to take those actions and to do things. The person sitting on a coach watching TV isn’t prepared to take the actions required for them to drop belly fat, no matter what they say about wanting to lose belly fat.

What are the actions one needs to take? Well, weight loss isn’t exactly rocket science, the things one needs to do to lose weight are well known – follow a good diet and exercise frequently. it’s of course a good bit more complicated than that, especially with the multitude of diets and work out programs. But still the mind set is much more important – it is the difference between those who lost weight and those who gave up after a few weeks on a diet, or after they didn’t lose as many pounds or as fast as they were hoping to.

The right mind set will keep you going even when you want to give up and quit. So before you even start with your fat burning work outs and diets, you have to realize that certain changes to your life style will need to be made, and you have to be prepared to make them. If you don’t want to make those changes, and try to find some work around, you will just set yourself up for a disappointment when a “magic solution” you found will fail as they always do.

So, get your weight loss off on the right foot with the right mind set! And if you haven’t yet signed up for the weekly newsletter do so – the first email will contain some of the tips on how to start your weight loss the right way and avoid some of the mistakes people often make.