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

How to Lose Belly Fat Naturally and Fast for Women

Almost every woman wants a trim and flat stomach. They will also say that they want to achieve natural belly fat loss. The irony is that very few women even know what natural belly fat loss is. Natural belly fat loss happens when you lose only fat. There should be minimum muscle or water loss from your weight loss efforts.In order to achieve quick results, women need to do 2 things that are essential. The first thing to do is to normalize hormonal levels. The second thing to do is to boost metabolism. By doing these two things, most women can shed considerable amounts of fat at the belly and other parts of the body.Normalizing hormonal levelsOne of the main reasons that there is an accumulation of fat in the belly area is because the hormonal system is out of whack. While the hormonal system is a complex mechanism, 2 hormones stand out that play an essential role in losing excess body fat. These are insulin and thyroid.Most women will be surprised to find that they may have low thyroid levels. This is a condition that is called hypo-thyroid. Before any woman begins any effort to lose weight, she should get her thyroid levels checked. Irregular thyroid levels need to be treated by a medical practitioner. It is essential to get this sorted out as no amount of dieting or exercise will help if the thyroid levels are not within regular levels.Insulin is also a very potent influence in a woman’s efforts to lose fat in the belly or other parts of the body. Insulin levels get out of whack through the over-consumption of refined carbohydrates. Most people do not realize it but we are consuming just too much refined carbohydrates and simple sugars. Refined carbohydrates are digested very rapidly and as such release a rush of glucose into the blood stream. The body over-compensates by releasing a high level of insulin. This is what is called an insulin spike. The insulin hormone lingers on in the body long after it has done its job of sending excess glucose into the cells. Insulin is a potent fat storage hormone. You can have amazingly fast fat loss results by completely eliminating refined carbohydrates from your diet.Boosting your metabolismThe smartest thing that you can do is to boost your metabolism. When your metabolism is elevated, you burn more calories around the clock. One of the easiest ways to do this is by doing weight resistance exercises. These are the best exercises to lose belly fat. Weight resistance exercises are extremely energy intensive during and after the exercise. After each exercise session, there are microscopic tears in the muscles. The body repairs these tears by tearing down these damaged muscle and rebuilding stronger muscle fibres. This process is extremely energy intensive. Some research has shown that weight resistance training can keep your metabolism raised for 24 to 48 hours.Having 5 small meals spread throughout the day also helps to keep the metabolism revving. At the very least, it prevents your metabolism from dropping. When the body is continuously getting small portions of food, it does not get paranoid and activate its starvation response. When the starvation response is activated, the body fears that there is a food shortage. It is more inclined to store calories as fat and not burn it.Simple steps that can take you a long wayThese simple steps can actually take you a very long way. If you normalize your hormonal system and boost your metabolism, you can get lots of natural fat loss in the belly area. It also becomes easier as you are working with your body and not against it. This is the easiest way to lose belly fat naturally.#dd_ajax_float