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Can You Tone Fat Away?

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So I was at my friend’s house last night when his wife walks in from the gym saying her trainer told her she could tone fat away from certain body parts.  I almost died laughing when I heard that a personal trainer would tell someone that doing something like crunches can help them tone fat.  Really tone fat?  How in the world can you tone fat?  You either lose fat or gain fat, but tone and fat really should never be mentioned together in my opinion.

“Sadly there is no magic trick for fat loss or toning your muscles.  Unlike pulling a rabbit out of a hat no one can magicially make fat disappear.  Don’t be fooled into thinking that you are doing something that is impossible to do such as toning fat.”

The Sad Reality of This

I started talking to my friend’s wife and discovered that she had heard this from several other people when I began to see that so many women are being mislead to believe the wrong information in regards to toning and fat loss.  See I have been out with my friends and see how many calories she puts in from one meal.  Just looking at her diet I could tell that she would not be able to lose fat. 

The problem was that she put all her focus on weight training and cardio and hardly any effort on her diet. For some reason a lot of women don’t account the amount of fat that they have to the amount of food that they eat.  So it only makes sense that the last thing they would think about when it comes to weight loss and body fat would be calories.

No One Wants the Truth

As I tried to discussing with my friend’s wife that she could indeed tone (build) her muscles she would actually have to create a calorie deficit to lose fat.  Before I could even explain to her what I was talking about she starting saying that I didn’t know what I was talking about and the only reason I was in shape was because of my high metabolism.  Her words where that almost of the women at her job had been told the same thing so what I was telling couldn’t be true.

So I simply asked her,” If most of her co-workers in shape or have they lost any weight?”  Her reply to me was,” Not yet but the can feel that their muscles are being worked because they are so sore they day after and they are sweating a lot.”

The Whole Misconception

After hearing that from her I started to understand how someone could get away with making money and keep clients by telling them to tone fat away.  A lot of people don’t want to hear the truth and for others they simply hear something so much that they actually believe it to be true.  Having sore muscles maybe a slight indication of toning or muscle growth but has nothing to do with fat loss.

While doing exercises and cardio does help you do burn calories it doesn’t mean that you are doing enough work on a weekly basis to create enough of a calorie deficit for fat loss.  I don’t know how many times I hear a woman tell me she didn’t lose weight this week because she gained muscle.  Really, I highly doubt that as it takes an extremely longer rate of time to build muscle than it does to lose fat. 

If it Sounds Too Good

I someone is telling you something that sounds too to be true than if probably isn’t.  There is no easy way to lose fat other than reducing calorie intake.  Exercise and cardio are definitely needed but 80% will come for what and how much you eat.

 A crunch exercises abdominal muscles but will not tone fat away from that area.  I see countless numbers of women trying to tone fat by doing thigh, arm and abs exercises only to hear the reason they haven’t seen weight loss on the scale that week was because the gain muscle weight.  I don’t want you to be that person that is being misled with bogus information like my friend’s wife was.

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.