I don't know about you, but off all the fat that we carry around on our bodies, belly fat is the most frustrating and also the hardest to get rid of. Carrying extra weight around on your midsection can also have adverse effects on your health, so it is very important for you to try and eliminate excess stomach fat- not just for the sake of your appearance, but also your health.

Unfortunately, because of the way the body is designed, you can't lose fat from only one part of the body at a time. Instead, you will have to focus on lowering your body fat percentage as a whole, before you will start losing stubborn belly fat.

Let us look at a few ways you can start lowering your body fat percentage, so you can be closer to the flat stomach you want.

One of the quickest way for you to be losing stubborn belly fat is to build muscle. "How so," you might ask? For every half pound of muscle you gain, you burn much more fat automatically, because the muscle uses energy to move and function. Basically, it takes much more energy for your body to maintain a muscle that fat. So the more lean muscle you have, the more calories you will burn, even while sitting around watching tv or even sleeping.

You will have to also focus on exercising the big muscles in the body to burn more fat. Apart from that, you will also have to eat better in order for you to start losing stubborn belly fat. A big mistake people make is to eat too little, which only slows the metabolism down further, making it harder for you to lose weight.

If you follow the right approach to eating and exercising, losing stubborn belly fat is much more easy than the way you have been trying to do it over the years.



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