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Things You Need To Know to Get a Smaller Waist

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Stop Dreaming About a Smaller Waist

How many times have you stood in front of your mirror trying to figure how you can get a smaller waist?  My bet is that if you are like my wife you have spent several days a week looking at yourself in the mirror and pushing your sides in or sucking your gut in so that your waist looks smaller.  Believe me I have seen it all and I will probably see it some time again next week (she’s out of town right now).  The fact is that a lot of women just simply want to  know how they can get a smaller waist to achieve that hourglass shape.

Ok so this picture has nothing to do with this post, but I like Wonder Woman, so I decided to put a picture of her in this post.  You have to admitt, most women would love to have a waist similiar to hers and most of you can.  Not everyone will achieve this goal but everyone can if they put in the time and effort.

Let’s Get the Facts Straight First

In order for you to make your waistline smaller than it is now you are going to have to face the facts.  There are a lot of myths about what you can do to lose your stomach but the fact is that most of what you have heard isn’t the truth and isn’t working for you.  Doing crunches all day long until you can’t breathe isn’t going to make your little muffin top go away.  I don’t care how sore your muscles are in the morning the fat is still going to be there.

Machines like this have people thinking that they are going to achieve a smaller waist simply by getting on it and working out.  This is not going to help you achieve the waist you are looking for, it will however take your money and find a new reason to buy the new upgraded version.

These crazy belts that zap your muscles like you are some animal is not the way to go either.  The one thing that electronic devices are going to make smaller is the money available on your credit card as you spend more and more money for the next great tech device that does nothing but give you false hope.  Don’t waste your money on these infomercials claiming you can set in front of television and do nothing and have great abs and a smaller waist.  Complete waste of time and your money.

So You Really Want to Drop a Few Waist Sizes

If you have made it this far then I probably didn’t scare you away with the myths out there and you are probably one of the few who will actually listen and achieve your goal.  There is no secret to getting a smaller waist and it is so simple that is difficult for many to understand.  It basically comes down to what you do in the kitchen and how you work your body.

Diet and Exercise are the Key To Success

What you do in the kitchen is going to have one of the biggest effects on your waist being smaller in 2 weeks than it is now.  Yeah you have heard this before and believe me if I had a machine to sell you to help you lose pounds around your waist I would but there is none I already check and nothing works.  One of the keys to your diet is eating out less and cooking at home more.  If you are hungry drink water and eat food that you have already packed.  No there are no special foods that you need to eat just certain things you may need to stay away from.  Foods like high calorie snacks, nuts, canned foods, and sodas.  Most of these contain high amounts of sodium, fat, and the worst of all calories.

Exercise is exercise, right?  Wrong sure you can exercise all day every day of the week and I bet you still may not lose weight.  In fact I know some women who work out and actually gain weight during the week and believe me they didn’t put on 2-4 pounds of muscle like their trainer told them.  You have to make sure you are doing interval and weight training.  Spending five hours on the treadmill sweating like a cow is not going to cut it.  You have to get your metabolism up so that your body will increase the amounts of HGH you make to help burn fat.

There are NO BELLY SPECIFIC FAT EXERCISES

You waist is not going to get smaller simply because you are doing exercises that are related to that area.  Doing these exercises will help you tighten up your waist and give you that great look once you have lost the pounds but until then you are just spinning your wheels for nothing.  If you follow these tips and advice you will be on your way to achieving a smaller waist in just a few short weeks.  Remember there are no magic pills to get a smaller waist just hard work, patience and commitment on your part.

Why is My Stomach Flabby?

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I overheard two women talking and one asked the other, “Why is my stomach flabby?”  I thought about it and realized that if there is one aspect of a woman’s body that she would like to focus on it would certainly be her stomach or waist region.  Women first need to understand that there are no shortcuts to getting rid of belly fat or stomach flab.

“These puppies have nothing to do with this post but I figured everyone would enjoy looking at a picture of some adorable puppies rather than someone else’s stomach flab.  I mean I could be wrong you let me know!”

Reasons Your Stomach Looks Flabby

There could be several reasons that you maintain flab in your waist area.  For starters you could simply just be eating too much.  For women the area around the waist, highs, and thighs are the first place the fats deposits when you eat too many calories.  It also could be that you have lost so much weight that you just have a lot of loose skin around your midsection and it needs to be tightened up.  Another cause could simply be indigestion and your food is causing a bulge in your lower abdominal region.

Common Myths about Stomach Fat

Myth 1:

For some reason people seem to think that doing repetitive sit-ups or abdominal exercises will give you a flatter sexier stomach.  However this couldn’t be further from the truth as performing these exercises does not allow you to spot reduce where you lose fat.  Core exercises will help give definition to the stomach muscles, but there is still a layer of fat that is covering it up.

Myth 2:

Another myth is that you need to do a crazy amount of exercise or cardio so that your belly fat will go away.  This is also false and doing an excessive amount of exercise and cardio will only help create a calorie deficit if you maintain a calorie intake low enough for it to affect your weight loss. In other words eating less and burning more calories is the efficient way to burn lose fat “all over.” Don’t think, for a second, that losing fat around your middle is easier for some and harder for others or that you can’t do it.

Myth 3:

There is no such thing as a miracle health food or fat burner!  Many of the foods that you see promoted are just junk foods that end up helping you gain more weight than you are losing. Don’t waste your money or time on fat-burner pills, supplements.

How to Lose Belly Fat

Do you really want to lose that stomach flab?  Are you going to listen if I tell you exactly what to do?  Okay, well the first step is actually being willing to do what it takes to lose belly fat so that you can have a sexy stomach.  This means that you are going to have to be ready to put in both the time and effort necessary for you to lose the flab since there is no miracle in losing stomach fat.

Secondly, you have to come to terms that getting abs is as simple as eating fewer calories than your body burns.  And for as simple as this sounds this is one of the hardest things for people to both believe and grasp.  Since one pound of fat is roughly about 3000+ calories in order for you to lose a pound of fat in a week your body must be in a deficit of that amount.

This deficit can come from a combination of calories burned through exercise and the deficit from eating less on a daily basis.  Drinking more water and accounting for what you eat through a daily journal are the best ways to lose belly fat.  Drinking water helps avoid the empty calories from alcohol and soft drinks while the journal makes your aware of the things you eat and how much so you know what to cut back on.

NOTE: There are no miracle foods or pills that will help you get rid of stomach flab, however if you want a flatter stomach you are simply going to have to create a calories deficit, this can be done through Eat Stop Eat which is a concept of taking a break from eating by Brad Pilon.

Rid Love Handles from Your Side

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Get rid of love handles for Good!

Rid love handles from your life by making sure you do what’s needed! Don’t know what you should be doing? Well you are not alone as there are millions of women who are looking for answers on how they can get those love handles to just go away. Don’t get caught up in silly games or tricks thinking that they will help you lose your love handles.

The term rid love handles is a heavily discussed topic on the internet. The tough thing is finding a good source of helpful info. I do my best to locate helpful articles and post them on my site. While cruising online I found a good article on Ezinarticles.com. If you have a few minutes, take the time to read this one.

How to Get Rid of Love Handles

By Karen Sessions

Love handles are a growing problem (pardon the pun) for many men and women these days. Love handles is basically a nice way to describe the fat that accumulates on each side of waist.

Media Deception about Love Handles

Many people are unaware or misinformed on how to successfully banish those annoying love handles. Abdominal machine manufactures know people’s desperation and play upon this heavily. Once you receive the product you will notice in the fine print of the accompany booklet that a healthy diet should be used with the item for optimal results. Obviously!

Bodybuilders in the past never relied on fancy gadgets to get that desired six-pack. It has always been, and will always be about nutrition, cardio, and abdominal training.

Three Elements that Help to Rid Love Handles

The accumulated fat that widens your waist never seems to dissipate no matter how many crunches or how much abdominal work you do, right? I can let you in on some little secrets on how to rid those saddles that have been weighing you down.

Step #1 – Since love handles are an accumulation of body fat, you have to clean up your eating habits. For some people this will be simply omitting the obvious junk food and for others it will require lower calories. Others will reap benefits from carb-rotation. Most of all, quality nutrition is the ultimate key.

Step #2 – Increase your cardiovascular exercise. I’m not suggesting hop on the elliptical and tear into it for two hours a day. Simply increase what you are currently doing a small amount, and challenge yourself weekly.

Step #3 – Train your abdominals. Abdominal work will strengthen the muscle under the fat. With the addition of developed abdominals comes increased circulation, and can aid in burning fat indirectly.

Abdominal Training Techniques – The Do’s and Don’ts

The Don’ts for Ab Training

Don’t Twist – Twisting from side to side with a stick or anything in this category can widen your waist.

Don’t Do Side Bends – Side bends, weighted or not, can add size to your waist, making it thicker.

Don’t Do Hanging Leg Raises or Knee-Ups – These do not even come close to targeting the lower abdominal as many believe. These actually work the sartorius muscle that runs down the leg.

Don’t Add Resistance Unless You Genetically Have a Small Waist – Some people can add resistance to their crunches (rope crunches), if their waist is genetically small. Those who lack natural symmetry and have blocky shapes should avoid abdominal resistance.

Ab Exercises to Do

Forget all the fancy abdominal variations that leave you more confused than when you began. Focus on these four ab exercises and you will target the entire abdominal muscle fully.

1. Stomach Vacuums – The stomach vacuum is an effective exercise for working the ab muscles that are rarely targeted. Stand upright and pull your stomach in and hold it there for as long as possible. Repeat three times.

2. Lying Pelvic Lifts – Lie flat on your back and put your legs in the air so that your body is in the “L” position. Slowly, and in a controlled manner, raise your hips off the floor an inch or two, and then return to starting position.

3. Modified Crunches – Lie on the floor with legs crossed Indian style and crunch.

4. Elbow to Opposite Knee Crunch – These target the obliques. Lie on the floor with knees in bent position and crunch your elbow to the opposite knee.

Once you get your diet in gear, omit the exercises that can widen your waist and incorporate the effective abdominal exercises, you’ll be on your way to a slimmer waist in no time.

Copyright 2006 Karen Sessions

Karen Sessions has been in the fitness industry since 1988. She is a nationally qualified bodybuilder and holds two personal training certifications. She has written 6 ebooks on fitness and has helped hundreds of clients transform their bodies. http://www.theelitephysique.com

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