If you’re tired of sporting belly fat that’s approaching Santa proportions then you’ll be happy to hear that you can get a flat stomach quickly and easily as long as you’re willing to get started with smart belly fat diet tips and holiday inspired fat burning exercises too.
Belly Fat Diet Tips
1. Fill Up on Fibrous Carbs – Start all your meals with 1-2 cups of raw veggies then eat 1-2 cups steamed veggies and/or dark leafy greens with 2-4 oz of lean protein and 1/2 cup of starchy carbs. Filling up with veggies (fibrous carbs) before your main meal automatically helps you cut down on calories, which is key for losing belly fat. It also floods your body with the nutrients it needs to burn fat faster.
2. Boost Metabolism with Healthy Liquids – Liquid calories are often overlooked as a belly fat loss strategy but drinking green tea and increasing your water intake have actually been found to increase fatloss while drinking weight loss smoothies or having homemade veggie soups before a meal can help you fill up on nutrient dense calories that your body needs to burn more fat. Nutrient dense liquids are also more filling and do an amazing job of displacing less nutritious or overly processed food calories.
3. Snack on Healthy Fats – Not only are healthy fats like avocados, nuts, seeds, olives and dark chocolate filling, they have also been found to assist with fatloss. Just be sure to stick with small portions because healthy fats are very high in calories. A good size snack could be 1/4 avocado and 2 turkey slices wrapped in lettuce, 6-10 almonds or walnuts and 1 small piece of fruit, or a small handful of mixed nuts and seeds in 1/2 cup of yogurt or with 1-2 cheese sticks. Healthy fats are good but remember that calories still matter when it comes to losing belly fat so keep it small.
Losing belly fat is much easier and happens much faster when you spend more time on fat burning exercises that target the entire body and workouts that train your body to burn stored fat. Training the belly directly on the other hand only wastes time and slows down belly fat loss to a crawl so be sure to spend more time on metabolic effect workouts (a.k.a. metabolic conditioning, metabolic training or after burn). A great example of this is the holiday inspired fat burning workout below (workout video coming soon).
4 min. tabata protocol suspension trainer Rudolph sprints
60 seconds rest
4 min. tabata protocol suspension trainer Santa rows
60 seconds rest
9 min. Nutcracker circuit (video coming soon)
50 seconds Russian squats
10 seconds rest
50 seconds Russian tabletops
10 seconds rest
50 seconds Russian lateral leaps
10 seconds rest then repeat 2 more times
Lose belly fat faster with recipes from the Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook
and a fat burning metabolic workout like Bob Harper: Totally Ripped Core
