7 Proven Methods for Losing Belly Fat in 2 Weeks.
What if you could put seven simple habits in place to help you lose belly fat? Three lifestyle changes, according to research, can help you lose weight and shed excess belly fat. These modifications can also significantly improve your health!
It's about more than just feeling good in your own skin when it comes to losing belly fat. Excess belly fat raises your risk of a variety of dangerous medical conditions. Obesity raises your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
Belly fat can also increase your chances of developing sleep apnea, developing certain cancers, and dying prematurely. Surprisingly, excess belly fat raises the risk of many diseases regardless of your weight.
Why Is It Difficult to Lose Belly Fat? For a variety of reasons, losing belly fat can be difficult. The typical American diet promotes the storage of excessive belly fat. The average diet contains a lot of ultra-processed foods, refined sugar, and fried foods. These foods contribute to the accumulation of this dangerous belly fat.
Many of us also lead stressful lives, which can contribute to the expansion of our waistlines. Because of hormonal changes, our belly fat tends to increase as we age.
How to Start to Get Rid of Belly Fat in 2 Weeks. While it is not possible to lose all of your belly fat in two weeks, you can lose some of it quickly by following the five tried-and-true methods listed below.
Stress Reduction. The stress hormone Cortisol is released by our bodies in response to stress. According to research, high cortisol levels for an extended period of time increase belly fat accumulation. So, if we want to lose belly fat, we should get our stress levels under control. You can reduce stress by getting more rest, exercising and eating foods that reduce anxiety. Stress-relieving foods include those high in antioxidants and healthy fats.
Reduce Stress and Belly Fat by Eating an Antioxidant-Rich Diet. Anxious people have significantly lower antioxidant levels in their bodies. One study found that taking antioxidants for 6 weeks reduced stress. This study also discovered that antioxidants can help protect against some of the negative effects of a high sugar diet. Antioxidant-rich foods include: fruits, vegetables, green tea, dark chocolate, nuts and seeds.
Eat Healthy Fats to Lower Stress and Belly Fat. Healthy fats and antioxidants, may help relieve stress. Cortisol levels have been found to be significantly lower in people who consume omega-3 healthy fats.
A meta-analysis of 21 studies discovered that taking fish oil reduced waist circumference. Healthy fats can be found in nuts, seeds, extra virgin olive oil, avocados, salmon, and tuna.
Eat and Exercise Mindfully to Reduce Stress and Belly Fat. Mindful eating also allows us to relax, which helps lowers our cortisol levels while we eat. Simply slow down and enjoy each bite to eat mindfully. Place your fork down between bites and take note of the flavours in each bite. Make eating a time to unwind. Be aware of cues from your body that you are full. This will help you avoid overeating and is a great backstop to portion control. Stop eating when you feel like you approaching feeling full. Slowing your food intake down will also help you feel fuller, longer.
Exercise is another effective stress reliever. Exercise causes the release of hormones that make you feel happier and less stressed. Every day, try to incorporate some form of exercise into your routine. If you are an exercise beginner, or haven’t exercised in years or even decades, we have a daily workout program specifically designed to get you up and moving again in just 10-15 minutes per day. Our 30 day Beginner Bootcamp incorporates the most scientifically proven training methods for burning fat, shedding excess weight and building lean muscle tone and definition. Our Beginner Bootcamp brings strength training together with HIIT at a beginner level that will get you up off the couch and moving again. This program has helped over 250,000 women take their first steps back to fitness, and you can get a full year of access to our Beginner Bootcamp (and all of our other programs) for just $69 with code: NY22.
Limit your intake of refined sugar and refined carbohydrates. Eating a diet dominated by refined sugar and refined carbs is a guaranteed way to generate a lot of belly fat. Limit your intake of sugary foods to avoid excess belly fat. Packaged pastries, cookies, and candy are examples of sugary foods. In addition, look for condiments and sauces that say "no sugar added" on the label. Reduce your consumption of refined crackers, chips, white rice, white bread, and pasta. Brown rice, quinoa, and whole-grain bread, pasta, and crackers are healthier carbohydrate options.
I’m just going to cut in here and be very direct. If you want to lose belly fat, and drop excess weight, you need to start eating real food - which is the whole point of our Meal Plan - to get you back to eating actual food. Let me explain.
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There are two types of food. Food ‘products’ and whole foods (also referred to as clean foods or eating clean). Food products are made in factories and engineered in food labs. These food products typically come in packaging like boxes, bags, packets and cans. They typically contain multiple ingredients - including some that you likely can’t pronounce. These foods are designed to be taste-addictive (meaning its hard to eat just one serving), they are typically stripped of fiber or anything that will make you feel full. Unlike real foods, these food products have little to no nutritional value.
Real foods are single ingredient foods. An apple is an apple. It doesn’t require packaging - it’s skin serves just fine. Real foods are combined together - the don’t come in a box mix. Real foods have naturally occurring sugars and flavours. Real foods don’t have sugar added, and they aren’t full of chemicals. Real foods deliver all of the vitamins and minerals that your body needs to be active and healthy.
Our Meal Plan contains grocery lists, and easy to prep meals, snacks and deserts that are made from real foods. Foods that are readily available at your supermarket. They are family friendly, and they are optimized to help you lose weight and drop body fat. We know that you don’t have hours to prep food, so we made the recipes easy to follow and quick to prepare. We enjoy food, so we made sure that everything tastes amazing. I can’t overemphasize how much of an impact eating real foods again will have on your health and your weight loss goals. You can’t really move your goals forward until you start eating more real food.
Consume More Probiotics. Not only does our gut health influence our weight, but it also impacts the accumulation of belly fat. For 12 weeks, participants in a double-blind study were given either a daily probiotic or a placebo. Abdominal fat was significantly reduced in the probiotics group. Unsurprisingly, the placebo group's belly fat did not change. Probiotics can also help with stress, which has been linked to an increase in belly fat.
Probiotics can be found in a variety of foods, including: almost anything fermented - like pickles, sauerkraut. Yoghurt, Miso, KImchi, Kombucha are also excellent sources.
Probiotics can also help with bloating and distention in the stomach. As a result, probiotics can make your stomach look smaller.
The big take away is that all of these tactics can help you make a significant dent in your Belly fat in just two weeks - but it’s in the weeks and months that follow a consistent approach where you will really start to notice the changes to your body, your energy and your health that these tips can deliver.
- Start eating real food. So many of your issues and struggles around belly fat and weight loss will literally disappear from your life if you start following a Meal Plan.
- Start doing beginner level strength training and HIIT workouts for 10-15 minutes a day. Our Beginner Bootcamp is the perfect place to start, and has been designed to deliver the most efficient fat loss workouts at a level that is accomplishable for beginners.
A shot from our 30 day Beginner Bootcamp workout series.
Between starting to follow a Meal Plan and eating real foods, to getting in a daily workout, you will have reset your entire fitness and weight loss trajectory. The only other thing I can add that I know will help you drop even more weight is to get 1.2 hours more sleep per night. You can read about that sleep hack here.
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I hope that these tips are helpful, but more than that, I hope that you will start eating real foods and give yourself the opportunity to workout with us for 10-15 minutes per day. Here is a great article on getting started with exercise again. Don’t forget, you can get a full year of access to our Beginner Bootcamp series on our fitness streaming service BodyRockPlus.com for just $69 with code: NY22. Give it a shot - it will help you establish a daily workout routine in a way that won’t overwhelm you.
Best,
Freddy