How to Lose Belly Fat for Women

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Most women have the perennial problem of trying to deal with the excess fat in their bellies. Women are sadly very inclined to gain weight in the belly area. It is not surprising that women spend most of their lives chasing that ideal body shape that they so badly yearn for.

Lack of weight loss educationIt is unfortunate that most women would be unsuccessful at trying to lose belly fat. The simple reason for this is that most women do not have enough education about the fundamentals of how the body manages fat. Most women approach fat loss from a logical point of view. They feel that if they cut down their food, they will lose weight. If they cut down their food even more, they should lose even more weight. This may have been true when they were younger, especially before pregnancy. Most women in their college days could skip some meals and get the extra pounds of easily. In those years, women had their hormones on their side. As they age, this same pattern of skipping meals, reducing food intake and fad diets actually make the fat loss problem worse.

At an older age, potent fat burning hormones such as the Human Growth Hormone start to decline. Most women would have also lost a lot of muscle mass from all the dieting done in the earlier years. The loss of muscles has also made most women insensitive to the insulin hormone thus slowly but surely making them insulin resistant. Pregnancy also plays a major impact on later life weight gain. Some women never recover from post-pregnancy weight gain. All these factors are compounded as they age.

The sad thing is that the more weight they put on, the more they do the things that are causing them to gain weight. Most of these women cannot believe that what they were doing in the earlier years is not working. They cannot understand why skipping meals and the diets are not helping with weight loss anymore. In fact the weight just keeps creeping up.

You have to be prepared for the battles of later ageMost women are not prepared for the weight loss battles of later age. They would have done so much damage in their earlier years that they would have lost considerable amounts of muscles. The belly starts to stick out and the posture starts to slump. The body is paying back for all the rapid diets of the earlier years.

There is hopeThere is hope for all the women out there. You really need to do two things which will set you on the track towards effective fat loss and a flat stomach. The first is to eliminate refined carbohydrates from your diet. The next thing is to start weight resistance training to rebuild all the lost muscles. Weight resistance training will also help normalize your hormonal balance. Increasing your muscle mass will make your body more sensitive to insulin. When you take these two steps together, you should start seeing the pounds drop.

If you still do not see enough progress, start removing more carbohydrates. The problem is often caused by elevated levels of insulin. You really need to bring your insulin levels down before you can ever see weight loss progress. You could even monitor your insulin levels via 2 monthly blood tests. Tell your doctor that you want to measure insulin and not glucose. he will off course try to talk you out of it, telling you that your glucose levels are normal. Insist in an insulin test and monitor it.

Once your insulin levels normalize the pounds will come down. There will be an upward spiral as you start rebuilding the lost muscles. Once you are in reasonable shape, do not fall back into the trap of your old lifestyle. It is this lifestyle that made you gain weight in the first place.

Suresh and Dr Jasvin discuss about some of the points that women should take note of when trying to lose belly fat. You can get a toned and flat belly if you know what you are doing and why you are doing it.

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Video Transcript of “How to Burn Belly Fat for Women”Hello this is Suresh V and I am Dr Jasvin and we are from the Correct Weight Loss team.

[Suresh] Today we are going to talks about an interesting topic called how to lose belly fat for women. Dr Jasvin what do you think. Interesting topic?

[Dr Jasvin] Very interesting topic and a big problem with a lot of women.

[Suresh] So why do women have belly fat?

[Dr Jasvin] Well I would think from years of not eating right and lack of exercise. I suppose a lot of women out there are actually trying to lose weight. They may not be doing the right thing so they need to come to the correct path of exercise and nutrition. I think a lot of people are also on the right path of exercise and nutrition but not getting the desired results. A lot of patience is required here.

[Suresh] I noticed that even among men but more so with women, the belly area gets a lot of focus. It seems to be a problematic area. From my understanding there are really 3 reasons why it is a problematic area. Firstly, because of genetics. Most of us are genetically designed to store fat in the belly area. It follows the fat loss theory of first in last out. If the first place you store fat is the belly, the last place to store fat is also the belly. So you must have patience. Ladies have post-pregnancy issues and lost of core muscle strength which causes loose muscles. This gives the illusion of a loose belly. There are also the hormonal problems such as syndrome-X or PCOS that cause storage of excess fat in ladies. I guess if it is the pregnancy induced large belly or hormonal induced problems, you can get faster results if you start going on the right track of the right foods and the right exercise.

[Dr Jasvin] For those women who are post-pregnancy and their core muscles are loose, exercise is a very important part. Also for those with hormonal imbalances such as PCOS, exercise and a good diet can actually bring them back to the normal path without going on medication.

[Suresh] If these are truly the issues that are causing the large belly syndrome, you will get reasonably quick results by getting on the right exercise and nutrition program. However, some women could be predisposed genetically to store subcutaneous fat in the abdomen. In this case, you will have to be more patient with the exercise and the diet. After you have burned fat in the other parts of the body, you will likely start burning fat in the abdomen.

[Dr Jasvin] Patience is a very important factor. A lot of people do not have patience.

[Suresh] They are also very focused on the abdomen because that is the problem area.

[Dr Jasvin] They do spot training and other desperate measures. I have seen a lot of people who have spent 15 years to getting to where they are and they expect to lose it in 1 to 2  months.

[Suresh] Yes it doesn’t make sense.

[Dr Jasvin] It just does not. So you need to be consistent with your diet and exercise and you will see the results.

[Suresh] Also don’t get too hung up with the belly. If you keep the correct measurements, you will notice that you are changing dimensions in the other areas. You may be losing fat in other parts of the body. Once the body burns up all the fat in the other areas, it will move to the belly area and burn fat there.

[Dr Jasvin] Most people do not realize that their clothes are getting more loose. This would be the first indication of weight loss success.

[Suresh] It’s  because they are too focused on the belly area. They tend to lose motivation. If they are intelligently measuring other body parts, they can keep themselves motivated until the fat in the belly starts disappearing too.

I guess that’s all for now. From the Correct Weight Loss team, this time do it right.