Eliminating those FATS

How To Lose Belly Fat For Beginners (a re-post from http://www.1healthfitness.com/how-to-lose-belly-fat-for-beginners-400)

Losing belly fat is not easy especially if you are attempting this for the first time. If you want to find success with your efforts you need to learn how to lose belly fat in a way that is healthy, safe and long lasting.

Prepare your body

Your body is like a machine. In order to start this machine and put it in a mode that will lose belly fat you have to prepare it. The preparation at this stage has to do with detoxing. You need to eliminate all substances from your body that affect the proper functioning of all body organs. The way to do this is by drinking a lot of water and by eating foods that have such characteristics. Such types of foods are fruits (bananas, citrus fruits, apricots) and vegetables (lettuce, carrots, radishes).

Boost your metabolism

Once you prepare your body the next stage has to do about your metabolism. In order to lose calories and fat your body’s metabolism should increase. The way to boost your metabolism is through regular exercise and by eating small meals every 3-4 hours. The meals should certainly contain bran, low fat dairy products, green tea and other foods that are low in saturated fats and sugars.

Consistency

What you need to understand is that consistency is a very important step in the whole process. Your efforts should be continuous and consistent. This essentially means that once you start your efforts to lose belly fat through a balanced diet and regular exercise you should stick to this for a couple of months and until you get the results you want. If you start and then quit after a couple of weeks and then decide to start again you will not achieve anything. When you start this process you should follow your plan until the end. Be prepared that this process may take a lot of time. How much time exactly will depend on how hard you will try and how willing you are to lose belly fat.

Exercise is essential

We already mentioned above that exercise will help you boost your metabolism. This is essential for any weight loss program. You can not reach your weight or fat loss goals without exercise. The type of exercise you will do does not really matter as long as you do it regularly. If you are not type of person who likes exercise then you need to find a sport or hobby that is intensive enough and do that instead.