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Are you trying to lose your muffin top? You know what that is, right? The overflow of fat around your waist that kind of looks like a muffin when you're wearing a belt. If you have one, you how embarrassing it can be. Here are a few simple tips to lose your muffin top fast.
It seems like every year there are new diets, new diet pills, and new exercise routines that promise to help you lose weight fast. Some claim to help you lose 3,5, even 10 pounds per week! Does that sound healthy to you? Most people don't realize it's pretty unhealthy to lose more than about 3 pounds per week, any more and you could be losing muscle weight and a good bit of water instead of just fat. That's not healthy, you really want to lose fat only, if at all possible.
So if you know fad diets don't work, what's the best possible diet to follow? You should first of all follow a healthy diet that you know you can stick to for a long time. Being on a so-called "diet" for a few months or whatever, is really a false concept. You are always on a "diet", you just don't call it that! Most have a bad diet, some have a vegetarian diet, others have see food diet (yes, they eat everything they see). But if you are eating anything at all, you're on a diet. Why not take steps to make it a healthy one?
A healthy diet consists of a combination of foods certain amount of protein, carbohydrates, and fats. How you ingest these and in what combination are the real trick you may need to cut down on certain carbohydrates such as sugars, which are readily turned into fat in the body. Some think that you have to cut fats out of the diet completely, but that isn't true since it takes some fat in the diet to stay healthy. Fat is really needed at least in small quantities to absorb certain vitamins such as D,E, A, and K. Without any fat, these vitamins aren't being utilized probably. We also need some fat in the diet for healthy skin and hair, and for cells to function. Energy is another necessity we get from fat too, so you see it really plays a critical role in our bodies.
The problem comes in when people eat too much fat, or just too much food. The body can only burn so many calories per day, so the extra is stored as fat under the skin. Basically, that means there are two ways to lose fat: you can exercise more, or eat less. Doing both speeds up the process even more of course, and is the optimal way to lose weight. We have become a somewhat lazy society, especially since we no longer have to walk anywhere, or do manual labor any more. The majority of adults simply don't get up and move around enough to burn the calories they ingest each day. Which is they prime reason we are so fat as a nation! Can we do something about this? You bet, and it starts with you and me.
Start by changing your mentality, so instead of saying "I'm on a new diet" say "I'm eating healthy now". Get yourself a list of healthy foods that you enjoy, and stick to them. It doesn't have to mean egg whites and chicken or potatoes with no butter, or whatever your vision of healthy looks like. Find a way to make good meals without the bad, fatty foods, add some vegetables, and also make sure you eat less too. Stop the between meal snacks, since they only fill you up with garbage calories anyway. And exercise more, even if it's a walk around the block each night, riding your bike, going bowling, playing tennis, learning to roller blade, whatever. As long as you are moving and getting your heart rate up, it's exercise and it's good! And pretty soon you will see your muffin top start to disappear.
