How to Lose Belly Fat for Women

Most women have the perennial problem of trying to deal with the excess fat in their bellies. Women are sadly very inclined to gain weight in the belly area. It is not surprising that women spend most of their lives chasing that ideal body shape that they so badly yearn for.Lack of weight loss educationIt is unfortunate that most women would be unsuccessful at trying to lose belly fat. The simple reason for this is that most women do not have enough education about the fundamentals of how the body manages fat. Most women approach fat loss from a logical point of view. They feel that if they cut down their food, they will lose weight. If they cut down their food even more, they should lose even more weight. This may have been true when they were younger, especially before pregnancy. Most women in their college days could skip some meals and get the extra pounds of easily. In those years, women had their hormones on their side. As they age, this same pattern of skipping meals, reducing food intake and fad diets actually make the fat loss problem worse.At an older age, potent fat burning hormones such as the Human Growth Hormone start to decline. Most women would have also lost a lot of muscle mass from all the dieting done in the earlier years. The loss of muscles has also made most women insensitive to the insulin hormone thus slowly but surely making them insulin resistant. Pregnancy also plays a major impact on later life weight gain. Some women never recover from post-pregnancy weight gain. All these factors are compounded as they age.The sad thing is that the more weight they put on, the more they do the things that are causing them to gain weight. Most of these women cannot believe that what they were doing in the earlier years is not working. They cannot understand why skipping meals and the diets are not helping with weight loss anymore. In fact the weight just keeps creeping up.You have to be prepared for the battles of later ageMost women are not prepared for the weight loss battles of later age. They would have done so much damage in their earlier years that they would have lost considerable amounts of muscles. The belly starts to stick out and the posture starts to slump. The body is paying back for all the rapid diets of the earlier years.There is hopeThere is hope for all the women out there. You really need to do two things which will set you on the track towards effective fat loss and a flat stomach. The first is to eliminate refined carbohydrates from your diet. The next thing is to start weight resistance training to rebuild all the lost muscles. Weight resistance training will also help normalize your hormonal balance. Increasing your muscle mass will make your body more sensitive to insulin. When you take these two steps together, you should start seeing the pounds drop.If you still do not see enough progress, start removing more carbohydrates. The problem is often caused by elevated levels of insulin. You really need to bring your insulin levels down before you can ever see weight loss progress. You could even monitor your insulin levels via 2 monthly blood tests. Tell your doctor that you want to measure insulin and not glucose. he will off course try to talk you out of it, telling you that your glucose levels are normal. Insist in an insulin test and monitor it.Once your insulin levels normalize the pounds will come down. There will be an upward spiral as you start rebuilding the lost muscles. Once you are in reasonable shape, do not fall back into the trap of your old lifestyle. It is this lifestyle that made you gain weight in the first place.Suresh and Dr Jasvin discuss about some of the points that women should take note of when trying to lose belly fat. You can get a toned and flat belly if you know what you are doing and why you are doing it.Podcast: Play in new window