Healthy Living Tips

Consume healthier foods. The foods you eat have an immense impact on what your body does with it and what your body looks like. Choose a balanced diet that contains all the necessary proteins, vitamins and nutrients in moderate portions. Opt for a fiber-rich oatmeal breakfast as it will stay in your stomach for hours and enable you to stay clear of any unnecessary snacking. Eat more green vegetables. Vegetables like spinach and broccoli contain fiber and very few calories. Yogurt and dairy products contain calcium that helps break down fat.

Eat smaller portion sizes. Many people struggle with stomach flab because we eat more than what we need to. Pay attention to the serving sizes. Cereal may be only one cup service size, not a bowl full. We get many extra calories by ignoring the suggested serving size on many of the foods that we eat each and every day.

Rather than eating two or three large meals a day, it is better to eat smaller meals and snack throughout the day. Spreading the meals out helps maintain your metabolism and keeps you burning fat longer. It also helps you from feeling hungry and binge eating in the middle of the day or late at night before bed.

Consume lots of water. Water serves many purposes and helps keep your stomach flat and firm. When you drink water, your body can flush out toxins and fats. You can metabolize faster and easier when you have enough water in your system. Also, when you drink lots of water you suppress your hunger thus consuming less calories and depositing less fat to your stomach area.

Exercise every day. You should get at least thirty minutes of moderate exercise five days a week. Walking and jogging is an excellent form of exercising as long as it’s enough to work up a sweat.

Get your rest. Sleeping is an important part of staying healthy and fit and believe it or not lack of sleep can lead to fat build up. Sleep deprivation can also make it harder to lose weight and keep it off. So make sure you get as much sleep as you can, preferable 8 hours with as much of it as possible before the A.M. hours.

Include some weight lifting and crunches. There are many great weight lifts and crunches and other exercise routines that can help target the stomach area. These exercise moves help tone muscles and can keep your stomach flat and smooth and burn the fat off quick! Make sure you do them several times a week to get the maximum effect and benefit.

Do not starve yourself. If you are hungry you need to eat. When you starve yourself, you are actually telling your body to store any food that you do eat as fat, and most of that fat will end up on your stomach. So to keep a thin and flat stomach, eat when you are hungry, even if it is just a few pieces of carrots, a glass or water, or something, but you should never starve yourself in order to keep a flat stomach.

Splurge one meal once a week. When you allow yourself to splurge on a routine basis it makes it easier to eat right the rest of the time. Most people break diets because they go for a month or two and then have one splurge and totally lose the motivation because it is so hard to be good all the time.