The Fitting Rooms’s Top 10 Tips To Reducing Belly Fat

Cutting belly fat is generally a primary fitness goal amongst our clients. Unfortunately however, it is most often the last place people will lose fat from, but here are our top 10 tips to help tackle this problem area.

1. Drink coloured salt, lime and water every morning. This helps to re-set your adrenal glands ready for the day. See article: Salt & Lime

2. Reduce added sugars. Sugar will spike your insulin and lead to you storing body fat, particularly round the mid-region. Cut sugar out of your tea and coffee, check all your labels for added sugars and minimize your fruit intake.

3. Weight train. Weight training has a positive effect on your metabolism since building muscle helps your body to burn fat even when at rest.

4. Drink around four litres of water a day. Your body works best when fully hydrated, and this will help reduce body fat. Staying fully hydrated will also help to reduce unsightly water retention which often can be mistaken for fat.

5. Supplement with good quality fish oils. Research suggests taking fish oil daily can have a positive impact on reducing belly fat. Five grams a day is advisable.

6. Supplement with vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency, which affects around 50% of the UK population, is associated with low testosterone levels, which is in turn linked to excess body fat. Supplementing with a good quality vitamin D tablet can therefore help to reduce belly fat.

7. Reduce stress. Stress releases a hormone called cortisol which is highly responsible for belly fat storage. Reducing stress levels may require you to address your whole lifestyle but one of the simplest changes you can make is to ensure you get enough sleep. Additionally, limiting the amount of cardio you do will also help since excess cardio puts the body under a lot of stress, leading to a rising in cortisol. Keep your cardio mostly to HIIT training and only as a supplement to proper weight training.

8. Avoid sweeteners. Certain diet soda drinks are a real culprit for promoting zero sugar, zero calorie “healthy” options. Don’t be fooled, these sweeteners are very damaging to your body composition, cut them out!

9. Eat a protein rich diet. A diet high in good quality protein helps to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce belly fat. The metabolic cost to the body from eating protein is also higher than for carbohydrate or fat, this will lead to you burning more fat as you digest your food.

10. Eat healthy fats. Make sure your diet is rich in good fats from butter, coconut oil, nuts, seeds, avocado, whole eggs, meats, fish, etc. Fats are very important in regulating your hormones. You will only ever get your belly fat down if you have your hormones in check.

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