Wednesday, June 22, 2011

You Can Even Eat Sugary Stuff And Lose Belly Fat

This is going to seem like a crazy idea - that you can have sweet stuff like chocolate, cake and biscuits and still lose belly fat!...but it will all make sense in a moment.

The first thing though is why would you want to eat any sugary foods if you were really serious about losing belly fat?

Well, if you try and cut out sweet foods...or "go on a diet" it's not going to stick. It won't last because if you eat enough of chocolate and cake it'll seem hard to fight the habit.

But instead if you train yourself how to use the habit in a way that changes you so you end up eating less sugary food but NOT completely stop you for good AND lose belly fat....isn't that a better option?

This is the key to it. NOT cutting out all these foods is the way that you end up stilll eating them and losing fat...but here's the thing:

You can't keep eating them the way you have been doing and expect that more exercise is going to help you lose belly fat

Doing some exercise will burn some of those calories but mostly it's not going to help you lose all of them. Because you've already spiked your blood sugar and your body is in the process of storing food as fat!

What you should do starting right now is first of all get some evidence about how many times a day or week you eat sweet foods. So make a simple log.

Next what you can do is schedule a treat day, like a Friday. On this day you can eat your little treat.

Then you really DO need to stop eating that food as much as possible...but now here's where I change it up: you make a good attempt to eat another thing that is more healthy instead. If it's really hard start with half and half.

This not only helps you lessen the blood sugar spikes..but it's also a great way to deal with food cravings. You can find out more about this particular part of it here: stop food cravings.

The main technique is to ween yourself off the amount of sweet foods rather than deny yourself them. So you end up still eating them and you lose belly fat.

Try it this week. Find out how much you eat, then choose a day (or at most 2) where you eat that food (or foods). And then eat something else on the other days.

And let me know how you get on by leaving a comment below!