Thursday, September 25, 2008

How to lose weight in your stomach? -

I have thin legs, but a bad stomach figure and would like to lose 7 pounds. How can I do that? What should I eat and how often?

You can t lose weight at only one place, but you can keep these tips in mind;Don t eat late at night. Eating late at night can cause you to store more fat in your waist and stomach. Stop eating 3 hours before you go to bed. If you need a snack, eat something healthy like a piece of fruit or a handful of nuts (unsalted). Eat often, but in small portions. The less your body peaks and falls on the blood sugar scale, the less likely it will be to overeat and/or store unwanted fat. Ideally, cut calories, but don��t starve yourself. If you eat the right foods and eat often enough, you won��t find yourself eating huge portions and overeating in general.Eat fats like fish oil, sunflower oil, flax seed oil. Also whole grains, legumes, and vegetables and limiting meats. Ease up on the salt and gassy foods that cause you to bloat.Get out and move. After what you put in your mouth, what you do with your body will determine if you can flatten your belly. Get at least 30 minutes of cardio exercise every day, along with a properly executed abdominal workout. Train your body with strength training activities. Adding muscle tone will help you perform all daily activities as well.You can also try these exercises:Belly rolls strengthen your vertical abdominal muscles. Sit with your legs bent, with feet flat on the floor and arms straight in front of you. Exhale and roll back until your lower back touches the ground and stop for a moment. Inhale and roll back up. Repeat 15 times. In the same position, exhale and roll back until your shoulder blades touch the ground and momentarily stop. Inhale and roll back up. Repeat 15 times. Tummy curls work on your horizontal abdominal muscles. Lie on your back and bend your knees at an (almost) 90-degree angle to the floor with your feet raised slightly higher than your knees. Breathe out, lifting your butt and rolling back to your shoulder blades. Inhale and roll to your tailbone and stop. Try not to let your bottom touch the ground. Repeat 20 times. Cross crunches are hard work but they re miracle workers at cinching waists. You will need a liter bottle filled with water for this one. Lie on your back with your knees bent at a 90-degree angle with the floor. With your left hand cradling your head, hold the water bottle in your right hand. Lift your head and shoulders off the ground and reach across your body, so the bottle is outside your left knee. Pulse 20 times and then switch sides and repeat. Tailbone lifts work your lower abdomen and can help reduce a belly pouch. Lay on your back, with your arms stretched straight over your head and legs fully extended and crossed in the air. While breathing out, lift your tailbone then slowly lower as you inhale. To get maximum effect from this, don t let your bum just drop, you want to resist on the way down. Repeat 30 times. This is a favorite of mine as inverted crunches work your lower back which improves posture and strength. Lie on your belly with your arms in front of you as though you are flying like Superman. Exhale, lifting your right arm and left leg as high as you can. As you inhale, lower slowly. Switch, lifting your left arm and right leg. Repeat 20 times. In the same position, lift both arms and legs twenty times.Burn your belly fat by doing sit and reach exercise. Running and dancing early in the morning. Simple stretching and jumping when you wake up in the morning.

you can t control where you lose weight, but cardio is the best way to get rid of fat, and that will probably come from your stomach area if you have thin legs. just eat a balanced diet and do not focus on it too much. being obsessive about it will set you up for failure.

For most of us who are overweight, we seem to have the most fat on our belly. And when someone wants to lose weight, the main thing they really want to do is lose belly fat.Some say obesity is an epidemic these days, but we beg to differ. WE think belly fat is the real epidemic. Yes, there are plenty of people who have fat on their arms and legs, or evenly distributed throughout their bodies, but the majority of overweight people today harbor more fat on their belly than anywhere else on the body.And there s a reason for it. Today s life is hectic, rushed, and stressful. We don t routinely cook anymore, and when we do it s not actually cooking at all. Instead, we warm up microwave meals, or mix something with water out of a box. If it can t be ready in a few minutes, most people won t bother with it.That s convenience. That s why fast food is so popular... we don t have to spend any time or effort on it. But that s also why we have so much belly fat in the United States today. Try this math on for size: Your typical full size hamburger, small fries and Coke equals out to be around 1000 calories. Not only does the average woman only require 1800-2500 calories per day, this meal will exceed both fat and sodium requirements by a large margin. That 1000 calorie feast is usually consumed in half an hour or less, (considerably less if eaten while driving). It took half an hour to consume; now how long will it take to burn off that same amount of calories? Depending on the activity it could take two hours on up to about six.You see, your body is a very smart, very efficient machine. When you feed it junk and convenience foods, you re not giving it much in the way of nutrition. Instead you re actually giving it a lot of sugar and empty calories.The body thinks you re starving, though. Since there s no decent nutrition being fed to it, you must be in the midst of a famine. So the body s job is to keep you alive. And if it thinks you re in a famine phase, it will store away anything it can, in any way it can. And this usually ends up meaning you get more fat stores added.Now the body creates these extra fat stores on your belly, because that s the core part of your body. You need your arms and legs to run away from predators and survive in general. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the body has evolved to allow you easier free use of your arms and legs.This is all part of the body s built-in survival mechanism.The body hasn t had time to adapt to modern uses of itself. It evolved into it s current state over thousands of years, but we ve just begun to use convenience foods and processed, chemical-loaded junk in the past hundred. So it s still doing what it needs to ensure you stay alive; thus you get fat created on your belly.Getting rid of belly fat is fairly easy to do, but most of us don t like it. Why? Because it generally involves not eating those sugary and convenient foods we adore so much these days.Check out my website, where I have reviewed the top weight loss products.http://www.my-linker.com/hop/weightlossr��I hope this is beneficial to you reaching your goals!

you can strengthen your abs by doing like 25 or 50 crunches a day. you might not lose weight but you ll have good looking abs

Try losing wight with the Lil Jack workout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKCGe2Ezr��