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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

You Don't Need the Gym to Lose Belly Fat

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By Jack Spencer

If there is one thing that more people are interested in than anything else, it's weight loss and getting as healthy as possible. Some people go through periods of time in her life whenever they consider weight loss to be important and other times at the don't think much about it. Other people, however, obsess over weight loss and weight gain and these are the ones that typically have the hardest time losing any weight at all.

There are a few reasons why people are having such a difficult time with their weight, and more than likely you are probably familiar with those reasons. We live busy lives and as a result, we tend to eat the wrong things because they are readily available. We also tend to lead lives which are rather sedentary and a lack of exercise certainly can contribute to a considerable amount of weight gain.

If you have tried a multitude of different weight loss regimes that are having a difficult time finding one that is working well, it may be necessary for you to get back to the basics of weight loss. As a matter of fact, there is a secret to weight loss that many of us overlook but in order for us to be successful, we might need to forget all of the things that we have learned up to this time. Here is one important fact that you need to keep in mind if you want to lose weight effectively.

One of the main reasons why we gain weight is because most of us are insulin resistant to a certain extent. If our insulin is unable to take care of all of the sugar in our system or if we flood our bodies with insulin regularly because we eat sugary foods, much of that sugar is going to be stored as fat until the body can get around to assimilating it. Unfortunately, it never gets around to it.

Losing weight is not necessarily about restricting the amount of food that you are eating but it is more about restricting the type of foods that you are eating. This is true because many of the foods will release sugar into the bloodstream slowly and this will allow the body to do its work as it was designed to do. The type of foods that are good for this are known as low glycemic foods.

The glycemic index is an often forgotten list of foods which indicates how quickly the sugar from the food is released into your body. If you only eat foods that are low on the glycemic index, your insulin level will remain steady throughout the day and weight loss will be much easier. Not only that, you will avoid many of the highs and lows that you're probably feeling right now.

You need to understand that there is a little bit more to losing weight effectively than simply eating the right foods, but it is the best place for you to start. It is a proven fact that people who eat properly are more successful at maintaining a good body weight than those who do not eat properly but exercise. The first step in doing this is eating foods that are low glycemic, and that will cause the weight to begin to come off of you quickly and naturally.

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