Belly Fat Diet: Lose Belly Fat Fast with these 3 Nutritional Tips

Photo of author

Alex Ragner

Last updated:

Believe it or not, the right dietary habits – a.k.a. the proper belly fat diet – is the most neglected factor when it comes to expert advice on how to lose belly fat fast.

Yes, to get the belly fat loss results you want, you must use the proper workouts.

But after learning how to exercise to lose belly fat, you must master the right nutrition, or else your exercising efforts will be wasted.

Before talking about the right nutrition to lose belly fat fast, let’s see why you might want to switch to the belly fat diet – even if you don’t have an extremely flabby stomach. That’s because…

Belly Fat Diet Reduces Health Risks…

…linked to excess abdominal fat.

Make no mistake; if you’re a woman with your waist measurement higher than 35 inches (40 inches for men), you are carrying abdominal, or visceral fat.

Less seen than subcutaneous fat (which lies all over your body just below the skin), visceral fat is extremely dangerous for your health, since it crowds your internal organs impairing their function – with serious health consequences.

You might have not realized, but the risks of visceral fat include heart disease, diabetes, sleep apnea, metabolic syndrome (a combination of insulin resistance, high blood pressure and cholesterol), to name just a few of the health dangers of being overweight.

As you can imagine, each of these is pretty bad on its own, but if you are significantly overweight, it’s very likely that you’ll have to worry about all of them at the same time.

Unfortunately, there’s more.

Besides these health risks, excess abdominal fat increases the release of inflammatory hormones and damages your kidneys, eyes and arteries, impairing brain oxygenation, which results in vision problems, memory and hearing loss.

That’s why when you adopt the healthy belly fat nutritional plan described below you do much more for your health than just flattening your stomach to enhance your figure.

Belly Fat Diet: 3 Simple Nutritional Tips

To lose belly fat fast and keep it off – remember these 3 easy points regarding your macronutrients (carbs, proteins and fats):

1. Carbohydrates
Eliminate sugars and replace processed, high-glycemic carbs (white bread, pastries, muffins, crispy rice cereals, corn products, regular pasta, instant rice, potatoes, bananas) with low-glycemic carbs (rye & whole grain breads, brown rice, oatmeal, all-bran, barley, buckwheat, whole wheat pasta, beans, most vegetables and fruits).

Why?

Because high-glycemic (high GI) carbs skyrocket the release of insulin, a pancreatic fat-storing hormone, as opposed to low GI foods that keep the insulin levels at bay, allowing your body to burn stomach fat.

So while we’re at the topic of carbs, don’t fall into the trap of low carb diets. Not only will you not have the energy to get through your day, you’ll experience dizziness, higher anxiety and sharp mood swings. Instead, low-glycemic carbs stabilize your blood sugar levels actually helping you lose weight, so stick with low-glycemic carbs and try to eat as many veggies as you can 😉

2. Proteins
To give your body the building blocks necessary to creating lean muscle mass, which keeps your metabolic furnace burning high, include at each meal high quality protein (skinless chicken or turkey breast, tuna, cod, prawns, lean beef, buffalo, lamb, fat-free cottage cheese) or use the popular and tasty whey protein shakes.

3. Fats
You might not be aware that most low fat diets disrupt the hormonal processes in your body, which leads to shutting down your fat loss. Plus, you’ll experience unbearable hunger pangs.

To avoid these nasty effects, the belly fat plan recommends that 20-30% of your total calories should come from foods high in good fats (avocados, olive oil, nuts, coconut oil) and foods that are good omega 3 sources, as they increase your metabolic rate as well.

By using this belly fat diet and eating 5-6 small meals throughout the day (every 3 hours or so), you reduce greatly the health risks listed above, associated with the damage done by visceral fat to your vital organs.

To get even better results faster start to exercise to lose belly fat >>

<< Return to Desperate to Lose Weight Quickly from Belly Fat Diet

Go from Belly Fat Diet to Brainy Weight Loss Home

Leave a Comment