Imagine looking down at your sexy, lean stomach and thinking, "All that hard work really paid off. I can't believe these rock-hard abs are really mine." Imagine the compliments you'll hear from your friends, family, and co-workers; "You look amazing! How did you do it?" Imagine walking in public with confidence, being able to wear ANYTHING!
Well, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but if you can't break your habit of doing these 2 things, it will never happen.
Going on Fad Diets
Consuming Processed Foods
If you want to lose body fat naturally, STAY AWAY from fad diets.
This is what happens when you go on any of those "low fat", "low carb", "low calorie" diets; you do not provide your body with a healthy balance of the vitamins and nutrients it needs to keep running properly, especially need for systems like your metabolism.
Fad diets cause your body to store extra body fat mostly in your stomach because it needs to conserve resources. It doesn't know there are reasons for not getting food. You may be trying to meet a weight loss goal but it's thinking famine. So for protection, your body goes into "starvation mode".
Once it's in that mode, the body will burn your muscle to use for energy instead of body fat. Your weight will appear to go down on the scale but it's not healthy weight loss. By not having muscle that will burn calories for you when you're relaxing, the body will convert food into fat much more easily once you get back into your regular eating habits. Your body won't have the muscle anymore to convert the calories from the food so it will get stored as fat. That's why you notice an increase in weight after a fad diet.
Avoid processed foods if you want to uncover your sexy abs within.
There are 2 extremely unhealthy ingredients in foods that are processed that actually cause overeating and obesity along with other types of health problems.
Artificial trans fats are found in cooking ingredients like hard margarine, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils (mainly used to prolong the shelf life of processed foods to maximize profits), and shortening. These are found in most processed foods, like I said to make it available longer without compromising taste or profits.
The major health concern? Coronary Heart Disease.
High fructose corn syrup. It is in almost every sweetened product on the market. It also extends the shelf life of food, is sweeter and cheaper than sugar, and can be used less than natural sugar.
What is one major health concern? Obesity.
These two dangerous ingredients create a dramatic spike in your blood sugar levels (also known as a "sugar high"), which turn into those draining crashes. This dangerous cycle actually increases your cravings for refined sugars and simple carbs, which turn into extra body fat.
With the modern ways of processing, the food is stripped of many of the healthy vitamins and nutrients our bodies so desperately need! So what we think we're feeding our bodies is nothing close to what it actually is. This is the cause of many health problems exsiting now. If we were to avoid processed foods and fad diets by eating natural, unprocessed foods, we would provide ourselves all the benefits of real food AND lose weight!
Diet is THE MOST important thing to control for achieving flat abs. Whether you believe it or not, you have a decent set of abs already; they're just covered by layers of belly fat. To get VISIBLE abs, you must lower your body fat percentage by stay
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