how to lose belly fat

So goods news and bad news.

Let’s start with the good news. Good news is if you wanna lose belly fat it’s absolutely possible and all you gotta do is tweak your diet to accomplish it.

Bad news?

Bad news is it’s impossible to target your belly for fat loss. Meaning there’s no way to do something or eat something where you only lose fat in your belly and no where else.

This is true not just for your belly, but for any specific body part too. Whether it’s face fat, leg fat, arm fat, thigh fat, butt fat, or belly fat you can’t expect to lose fat just in that area and no where else 

So how does losing belly fat actually work?

You can lose belly fat by losing overall fat.

While you can’t tell your body where you want to lose fat first or last, by eating less over time consistently (calorie deficit) you’ll be losing overall fat which eventually the target you desire to lose fat in will be affected.

It’s also different for everyone. Everyone loses fat at different areas of the body at different rates. There’s nothing we can specifically do to “encourage” an area to be effected more than another.

What does that mean?

It means doing things like sit ups or crunches basically does nothing at all in terms of losing belly fat. Sit ups and crunches can help you build your core muscles, but it can’t help you lose fat. There’s no exercise you can do to target an area on your body for specific or accelerated fat loss. It doesn’t exist.

Targeting fat loss is a myth.

At the end of the day when it comes to all things fat loss it all comes down to your diet. Your diet is the driving factor for fat loss. Figure out your diet first before worrying about exercise if fat loss is your primary goal.

Hope this helps!