Stomach fat is many things, among them annoying, ugly and impossible to lose. Worry no more, for there are steps you can take to make losing stomach fat easier than it has ever been!

[Being a cartoon character is the only way to stop worrying about losing stomach fat!]

All you have to do is make a few small changes to your life and ridding your body of that pesky stomach fat will just another goal to accomplish. Weight loss is never easy, but we’ve come up with a few tips that will make losing stomach fat easier.

Count It Out

Eyes always roll when I mention diets because people hate food restrictions. The bad news is that losing stomach fat cannot occur without some changes in your daily diet. Changes to you diet means reducing or eliminating certain foods, while adding others like fruits and vegetables.

The key to losing stomach fat however, is to seriously cut down on how much junk you eat. The first place you should start is with snack foods. Get rid of big Family Size bags of chips and cookies and get individual packs. Sitting a huge bag of chips on the sofa next to you is like an open invitation to eat the whole thing, by counting it out, or only eating what the serving suggestion is. This will help you eliminate unnecessary calories that occur from overeating, and a calorie reduction is how weight loss happens.

A well-balanced diet that has fresh fruits and vegetables will satisfy you without adding unnecessary fat and sugar. Whole grain foods will really help you control how much you eat because they make you feel more satisfied with a smaller amount of food. Lean meats and beans are will also make losing stomach fat even easier.

Go To Bed

Your success or failure in losing stomach fat has a lot to do with your sleeping habits. Successful weight loss requires you to be of sound mind and body for most of the day. When you don’t get enough sleep your mind isn’t sharply focused and you’re twice as likely to make unhealthy decisions. A tired person will choose the elevator over the stairs, a cupcake over a fruit cup and a night on the couch over a few hours at the gym.

[If this is too much for you, how're you gonna make it to the gym?]

In addition to bad decision making, getting enough sleep each night gives your body the times it needs to recharge to function properly for the next day. When you don’t get enough sleep your body incorrectly assumes its stress and often makes the decision to store the cortisol rather than burn it. Losing stomach fat will be easier if you get 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night.

Water

It doesn’t matter what you think about water as long as you drink it. Water is essential for all types of weight loss, but especially for losing belly fat. Besides flushing out toxins, water gives your body life. It keeps you hydrated so that you don’t bloat up like a hot air balloon.

Water also makes bowel movements easier, and nothing makes a stomach look bigger than being full of crap! Pardon the imagery, but water helps your body function as it should, which makes losing stomach fat easier. Water alone won’t expedite your weight loss, but drinking enough water each day will help in your quest to lose belly fat.

Don’t Force Yourself to Exercise

Losing stomach fat requires you to be active! Whether its playing tennis to get a good upper body workout or taking a long with a few friends, getting moving is about being out and enjoying life without always eating. When you get used to leading a life of activity, going to the gym or scheduling time for regular workouts will become easier. By being active on a regular basis you’ll feel almost restless on days when you’re less active.

When you do decide to have a traditional workout, an exercise regimen that includes both strength training and aerobic exercises—combined with improved eating habits—is the most effective method for losing stomach fat. It really doesn’t matter what kind of exercises you do as long as you’ve created that calorie deficit for weight loss. Go the gym, play your favorite sport or do things that get you off the couch and get movin’ around and watch the stomach fat melt away!

Reduce Portion Size

Reducing portion size is probably one of the most difficult aspects of losing stomach fat. Your stomach has gotten bigger and takes more food to fill it up, however eating isn’t supposed to “fill you up”. You should feel satisfied after a meal, not stuffed to the brink of explosion.

[Sure portion sizes have gotten bigger...but do you really have to eat the whole thing!?!]

The only way to see your belly begin to shrink is to eat less (and exercise more) so your stomach actually has an opportunity to shrink. Losing stomach fat means only eating as much as your body needs to sustain itself. When you eat, don’t allow food to be falling off the plate—that’s the number one sign that you’re eating way too much.

Eat less food and losing stomach fat will be easier than you thought. The difficult part is to keep the tiny tummy you worked so hard for!

Read our The Truth About Six Pack Abs review and get even more tips to make losing stomach fat less of a headache and more of reward!

Six pack abs are said to be the pinnacle of fitness by some. I’m not much for flashy titles, but not many things are more appealing then a flat stomach on the opposite sex.

Ever stared in a mirror after months of hard training and wondered when you’ll see that sexy six pack of yours?

[I think NBA basketball players are unusually tall and look ridiculous in public places. Not Jameer Nelson. The guy is well put together but it might also help he's six feet tall and 190 pounds. Advantage: short guys!]

For the average Joe like you and me, we tend to screw things up royally when it comes to going after the vaunted six pack or flat stomach. But how?

Too much time training abs

For one, we spend way too much of our precious training time on ab exercises (bicep training ain’t far behind). Speaking directly from experience, I’d spend an entire training session, typically 60 minutes, doing hundreds of reps of various crunches, leg raises, and twisting exercises.

Fast forward to today, I use that time now on full body workouts that elicit a much better metabolic response and increase my fat-burning hormone levels throughout my body.

Michael Geary, nutrition specialist and author of The Truth About Six Pack Abs, talks at length about how losing stomach fat is one of the most important aspects to uncovering your abs. The range of movement and amount of work required in exercises like ab crunches is not enough to cause a significant metabolic response to burn fat.

You need to challenge your entire body and exercise proper nutrition to destroy that wall of fat that is blocking out your six pack abs.

Low Fat or Low Carb diet?

Neither. Don’t get fooled into this “low” or “high” fad diet business because I was a sucker for a long time when it came to fad diets.

Instead, go Medium Fat, Medium Carb, or have balance, and you’ll be lean enough to see your flat stomach and eventually your abs. More importantly, stay with nutrient dense foods in their natural state, or as unprocessed as possible.

Various studies have shown the damaging effects of heavily processed foods in our bodies including new research published in the journal BMC Cancer by Dr. David Christiani and others of the Harvard School of Public Health. This study reveals that children who eat processed meats like bacon, hot dogs and sausage are 74% more likely to develop leukemia than children who avoid such processed meat and eat more vegetables and tofu instead.

Absolutely crazy! I’m not making this stuff up. Click here for the study.

Unprocessed foods to help keep you in balance include vegetables, fruit, unrefined grains, nuts, seeds, olive oil, avocados, and many more.

Don’t ever let someone or some program tell you there is a limited list of so called “good foods”. There is a ton of possibilities and some programs do a better job then others in organizing this information for you.

Just as an example, Vince DelMonte’s Your Six Pack Quest program provides a variety of meal plans, including ones that focus on veggies entirely and others that are price sensitive if you can’t afford a full on organic plan.

Remember, keep the processed stuff out and you’ll quickly gain total control over how lean you want to get.

Slow and boring cardio

It’s important for people to realize that regular strength training using heavier resistance will not “bulk” you up. You need to be eating off a conveyor belt to bulk up but that’s not the point of this article or this site.

If you can’t find people wasting time doing countless ab crunches, then for sure you’ll find them wasting equally important time doing a slow cardio exercise or lifting really really light weights.

If weights aren’t your thing then bodyweight exercises are an awesome substitute as demonstrated by fitness expert Craig Ballantyne below.

Some of my most challenging workouts in the past year took place without even setting foot in a gym. Just me, outside at a park, cranking out planks, mountain climber push ups, and wind sprints in the fresh air and sun. And when you combine these types of exercises with variable intensity, or intervals, the metabolic and hormonal response you’ll get in your entire body (including your abs) will be impressive.

Mike Geary’s book The Truth About Six Pack Abs is currently the top selling abs program on the entire internet. But his nutrition guidelines and strategies is what sets him apart. Check out our review of this massive fat loss resource of eating habits, food choices, and so much more!