Awesome Tips to Lose Belly Fat Fast & Get a Flat Stomach
25. EAT EVERY 3 HOURS
Eating a low carb, protein snack
between your main meals helps stave off hunger and avoids blood sugar
spikes. This is important because the lower you are able to keep you
blood sugar, the lower the levels of the hormone insulin. Insulin is a
hormone that encourages fat storage, particularly of the tummy area, so
you want to do what you can to keep insulin levels low. A healthy snack
will also help maintain steady energy levels and massively reduce the
risk of junk food binges.
26. CUT OUT SUGAR
Because of the effects food has on our body, it doesn’t just matter how many calories you eat, but what you eat. The hormone that acts in opposition to insulin is called glucagon.
Where you want to keep insulin as low as possible, due to its
fat-storage effects, you want to keep glucagon levels high, because it
mobilizes fat from storage. Whenever you eat a high sugar food or refined carbohydrates
(e.g. white bread) your blood sugar spikes, causing insulin to spike
and glucagon to be low. Therefore, you want to eat as little sugar as
possible.
27. CHEW YOUR FOOD THOROUGHLY
This is
important if you want a flat tummy. Chewing your food thoroughly is an
incredibly easy and effective way to avoid bloating. You should be
chewing your food until you can no longer identify what you’re eating by
its texture. Chewing tells the rest of your digestive system (stomach
& intestines) to start the digestive process. Chewing thoroughly
also breaks down the food into finer particles and means that it can be
broken down and absorbed better in your gut. If you don’t chew
sufficiently, the food isn’t fine enough to be digested, meaning the
food remains only partially digested. The undigested food is pounced on
by the “bad” bacteria in the colon, which can lead to bacterial
overgrowth, flatulence and other symptoms of indigestion.
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