Flat stomach - weight loss

Do you want to have a flat belly? I guess yes, but what do you do to achieve this? You spend most of the time sitting at your desk so you don't have that much time for exercises. In fact exercises are not the only way to achieve flat stomach. Flat belly diet will help you do that. Remove everything that is not necessary from your daily meals and put things that are good for your health. You will see the results in few weeks. But don't expect miracles, this process will take some time.

Even if you don't have time to go to the gym it doesn't mean your stomach has to look like a ball under your shirt. Even if it already looks that way you can make it more flatten even without exercises. You can start with small changes in your diet.

Researches confirm that people that changed their bad eating habits and started to eat healthy food lost even 18 pounds kg during first 12 weeks. It wasn't that much less when they compared it to people that also did some exercises.

We will give you some ideas, places where you could improve your diet.

To have a flat belly you have to keep energetic balance in your food. Scientist discovered that if you have that balance, your body will burn more fat and built your muscles. Energetic balance is nothing more then a difference between what you deliver into your organism and calories you burn. If you eat second breakfast that has energetic value equal to 600 calories and after that you will burn 100 calories, your energetic balance will be equal to 500. The perfect value is 300-500 calories. If you eat 3 big meals a day and you don't move that much at all this value will be too big. It's not good because people with big energetic value have the biggest problems with weight.


Eat 6 smaller meals a day

What will this give you? It will help to speed up your metabolism and in the end it will lead to fat burning. So eat more often. This is one very important remark that you should keep in mind. If you eat 3 main meals and 3 small snacks a day you will have good energetic balance. Because of that you will drop your weight faster and burn the fat that is covering your stomach. The other benefit of that is when you eat more often you don't allow hunger attacks to happen and this in the end usually ends with eating more then you really need.



What else could you do to increase your chances for flat stomach?

- Eliminate from your food fat meat, sweets, bread and alcohol. Bread is full of carbohydrates which causes the increased level of glucose in your blood which is one of the reasons why fat is stored over your stomach. Sweets and alcohol will make fat grow over your belly.

- Try not to salt your meals that much.

- You should try to eat more fresh vegetables. Try to choose fruits that contain less amount of sugar. Vegetables and fruits are full of cellulose which helps to clear the body from toxins and helps fight the stomach gas in your entrails - but don't eat legumes vegetables like bean for that.

- Eat wholemeal bread instead of normal white bread. It's because white bread is full of carbohydrates.

- Eat lot of protein because it will improve your metabolism.

- Drink lot of mineral water (2 liters (0,5 gallons) a day). It will help to get rid of toxins from your body and will stop your appetite because it will fill up your stomach.

- Try not to drink lot of coffee and alcohol. It leads to increase amount of stress hormone in your blood which could lead to fat being stored over your belly.

- Remove the food that is causing the stomach gas. Because of them your stomach is bigger then normally. How to do this? Don't eat legumes vegetables like bean or pea, don't eat sweets or fruits after main meals. At least wait for an hour before you do it. Drink some herbal tea's and try to eat slower.


Here is a sample day menu:

Breakfast:
- 2 pieces of wholemeal bread.
- fish
- tomatoes with onion
- green tea

Second breakfast
- fruit salad : peaches, apples, bananas

Dinner
- 3 spoons of porridge
- boiled or steamed turkey
- ice salad with yoghurt and soya

Afternoon snack:
- low fat cottage cheese with olives

Supper:
- fish cooked in aluminum foil
- rice
- salad with cabbage and apples
- fruit tea


It is of course important to do some exercises when trying to flatten your stomach. It will speed up the process and you will feel better and healthier. You don't have to exercise a lot, 30 minutes a day will do the job for most people. You could do the running, swimming and even walking (you could do that while you go to work). Diet can help you for sure but it could be not enough in most of the cases. That's why you should try to find some time for exercises and stomach massage which in the end will lead to a flat stomach and this is what you want to accomplish.