Are you trying to lose that pesky belly fat? I’m sure you’ve heard that crunches and crunches are the way to do it, because those exercises make use of the abdominal muscles. However, while it is absolutely true that crunches will strengthen your abdominal muscles and make you stronger in that area, and you may appear leaner because your enhanced muscles hold fat better, this does not actually reduce abdominal fat in and of itself.

For a complete and lasting solution on how to lose belly fat, we need to look at how the body works and how it is capable of losing weight. The simple fact is that if you are going to lose weight, from any part of your body, you need regular exercise. The fact that the most obvious and visible area of ​​excess fat on your body is your belly does not change this fact. When you don’t exercise enough or overeat for a prolonged period, one of the areas that naturally shows this excess more than others is the belly. Similarly, if you start exercising and lose weight, it will come off faster from the same belly area. So no special “ab exercises” are needed, just healthy exercise!

In addition to exercise, diet plays a fundamental role in losing or gaining weight. You can exercise but still find that you are gaining weight if you are eating very poorly or in large amounts. Therefore, both exercise and diet are necessary to get the full effect. You need to adjust your diet so that you are burning more calories than you consume, at this point you start to “burn” calories stored as fat in your body. Obviously, changing your diet to reduce the number of calories consumed helps, as does reducing the actual amounts of food you eat if you’ve been eating excessive amounts.

The key to losing belly fat is pretty simple, and there’s really no secret or special program: exercise and eat less (and eat right). So the two key action points are to first reduce the calories you eat, with smaller amounts of food or lower calorie foods. Second, every day do some physical exercise. Do this and you will lose that belly fat!