Can You Carve Some Inches Off Your Tummy With No Sit Ups?
Can You Beat Belly Fat?
Let’s face it. As we pass into our fifties a lot of things change. Changes in activity, a lack of attention to our diets, and hormone levels peaking and falling can start to pad out the best kept tummy section. Yet, as fat starts to find a comfortable place to stay around our belly buttons, scientists warn us that is a dangerous sign.
The Mayo clinic says that belly fat can be a warning sign of an increased risk of a stroke, heart problems, and diabetes.
Can we flatten things out a bit? The dread, middle age spread, is quite real. But we can still fight it!
Your Diet May Help Cut Belly Fat And Risk
When people start to toss the word “diet” around, I still have images of cutting out one of my favorite things – food! However, a lot of the latest diet tips may ask you to lay off the fries, donuts, and 16 ounce steaks, but also concentrate on adding more servings of some types of food to your diet.
Cut Or Reduce:
- Sugar
- Processed Starches
Add More:
- Fruits
- Vegetables
- Unprocessed, or minimally processed, carbohydrates are good. Find sources or carbs that also provide fiber and protein if you can.
Concentrate On:
- Get lean protein. Just be aware that a lot of lean protein sources also tend to contain a lot of salt. If high blood pressure is a problem, you probably want to watch the turkey bacon servings too.
Drink Water – Make sure you keep yourself well hydrated. A glass of water with a slice of lemon or lime is a refreshing drink! Some people also keep a bottle of water with them at all times, just to make sure they take a few sips periodically. By the time you actually feel thirsty, you are probably dehydrated.
Flat Belly Meal Ideas
The idea here is to make the fresh fruits and vegetables, unprocessed grains, and lean proteins the focus of your meals. One easy way to do this is to replace some of your sugar and starch laden favorites with unprocessed substitutes.
- Replace the processed cole slaw with a simple and healthy recipe you prepare yourself in minutes. All you need it shredded or torn cabbage, vinegar, salt, pepper,and a touch of low fat mayo. If you like it sweet, go easy on the pinch of sugar or use high fiber, low calorie stevia. Eat twice as much, and you will consumer a good, fresh vegetable with less calories than the deli kind.
- Enjoy your steak, sliced thin, on top of a bed of greens and other salad stuff. You will find yourself feeling full of food and full of virtue! A couple of squirts of lower calorie dressing and some imitation (or turkey) bacon will give you a royal meal.
- Replace pie and other sweets with a home-made apple crisp. You can simply use a low fat Bisquick type dough to create the crumbles around diced up apples. Sweeten with stevia, and spice it up with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. It’s great. You feel like you had pie, but probably only consumer a couple hundred calories on a big serving. Treat yourself to half a cup of low fat frozen yogurt on top of your warm apple crisp, and you still haven’t blown your day’s calories.
Exercise
It seems like the older I get, the less eager I am to show up at the gym. But experts tell us that a good daily walk, even round the mall or a store, or twenty minutes on the indoor bike, can make a big difference.
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I like the “eat more of the good stuff”, and not less of everything approach. What I’d really like is for you to elaborate on the flat belly recipes. Not all of us are as good at throwing things together as you are, Dawn.
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