Lots of people want to loose weight even if that means starving themselves but that's not the only way. I have some tips that will help you achieve a flat stomach, how ever this will only work if you have a small amount of fat/skin on top of you stomach. If you do have an excess amount of fat then follow these tips on top of some regular dieting and exercising because these tips will actually help make your stomach smaller making it smaller on the inside also not making you feel so hungry all the time which will help when dieting. If you just feel your stomach right now (No flexing!) how does it feel? If you have a bit of gushy/softness then that's all the fat surrounding your stomach, if its hard then that's the muscles and bones. What I have learnt is how to go from having the gushy stomach to the hard solid stomach and here's how :)
- Drink a glass of water before and after each meal. The reason to do this is because the size go your stomach is the fame size as your fist so if you fill about half of it up with water, then you are going to feel fuller since the water is filing up 50% of your stomachs capacity. After eating your food drink another glass of water just to flush through and start the digestion process earlier . If you do this for ever meal then that's six glasses of water and if you drink one glass between lunch and dinner and another glass before going to sleep then that's a total of six glasses of water which is the recommended amount of water to be consumed daily for an adult.
- Don't eat three or four hours before sleeping. The reason behind this is quiet interesting because when your sleeping, your body is mainly focusing on digesting the food you ate during the day and burning off those calories, repairing yourself basically getting good quality sleep. If you eat before bed, your sleep will be deprived slightly but also your body is going to turn that food you just ate into glycogen which then gets stored in your liver and eventually gets stored as fat. If you don't eat you body will burn weight instead of gaining it which also means better sleep, and better sleep means better health and weight.
- Avoid sugars, wheat's, whole grains and whites. Sugars and breads kinda are similar, they both get turned into really fast burning glycogen by your body. And if we don't exercise it off soon after consuming it then their going to straight as fat. And their going to cause insulin resistance and all this other stuff, insulin is what stores fat. If your insulin goes up then you get hungry, then it goes up again so its like a cycle. So avoid these sugars because they cause weight but also bloating! If you eat a small about of sugar, those sugars will gain water. Basically one small sugar molecule bonds with two molecules of water so its three times the weight and that can real cause bloating in out intestines making you look like you've gained weight when really its all water weight
- Ab exercises! When we flex our stomachs, that's what we feel. Abs! and the tighter and stronger that is, its going to hold our food better. If we didn't have any abs what so ever and we just ate a huge meal, all that food is just going to poke out of our stomach and show, looking like you've gained a lot of weight which you didn't! So abs are kinda like a wall that keeps food behind it before is gets digested. You can do just about any ab exercises, try to do about 100-300 everyday if you can, if you never do any ab exercises start from 50, or 5! because 5 a day is better than none a day and you can slowly increase your intake and push you self more and more each day Here's a link for some ab workouts but my personal favourite is good old sit ups and climbing the stairs countless times. Also if you want you can wear ankle weights, which are like weights which you strap on to your ankles, you can wear them under you trousers so you can wear them all day and no one will notice and you'll be doing exercise all day because you have them on so I think their great!
- Do not eat anything bigger than you fist. Your stomach is naturally the size of your fist when its clenched up. Think of your stomach as a rubber band, when we eat it gets bigger, when it digests all the food then it gets smaller, the we eat and so on. If you can program to eat a fistful amount of food every hour instead if three big meals a day, also your metabolism will be raised and on top of that your stomach won't be stretching out quiet as much so through your clothing, you won't be able to see all of that extra bulge.
- EGGS! I LOVE EGGS! Eggs are a super food, the contain so much nutrients and protein its unbelievable. Some people say eggs have cholesterol which is true but its the good kind of cholesterol, the kind that is good for your body. I tend to have one boiled egg for my breakfast since if fills me up for quiet a long time and it gives me a great start to the day. You can have your egg boiled or poached (I think their the healthiest option to cook an egg) also their about the same size of your fist so that can count as one of the snacks you eat every hour. If your not a fan of eggs then this tip is optional.
So those are my tips to a flatter stomach, if you have any of your own then just post them below! I love learning about new thing :) hope this helps. Love you all
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Syeda
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Syeda
