Lose the pudge
A little bit of belly fat is actually good for you: it protects your stomach, intestines, and other delicate organs. But too much fat is anything but healthy. Extra fat cells deep in your abdomen (aka visceral fat) generate adipose hormones and adipokines—chemical troublemakers that travel to your blood vessels and organs, where they cause inflammation that can contribute to problems like heart disease and diabetes. The good news? Every pound you shed can help reduce your girth. “Once women start losing weight, they typically lose 30% more abdominal fat compared with total fat,” says Rasa Kazlauskaite, MD, an endocrinologist at the Rush University Prevention Center in Chicago. Even better, the choices you make every day can supercharge your ability to burn belly fat. Here are 6 common pitfalls—and ways to undo each one.
Lose Weight with Diet
As a medical doctor, I often hear patients complain that they can’t lose weight using traditional Western methods—calorie-restrictive diets and long, plodding workout sessions. And I often prescribe for them a diet based on the principles of Ayurveda, which helps to soothe the digestive system while stimulating weight loss. Try one or more of these yoga body drinks, and watch how quickly your own belly can go from nasty to Namaste!
My friend Kimberly was making yet another series of desperate New Year’s weight loss resolutions.
By ‘diet‘ we mean any temporary, restrictive program of eating with an end goal of losing weight. There are many scientific studies that support the claim that dieting does not aid weight loss in the long term and ultimately leads to weight gain. A healthy eating plan is more likely to lead to a healthy weight. Research has shown that almost 95 % of people who lose weight through a diet regime will regain the weight (and possibly more) in one to five years. So, what to do? Rather than choose a restrictive fad diet lose the diet and look more at a healthy eating plan and portion control.