| So you have decided to make a change in your | | | | should keep track of everything that you eat in |
| life, and get healthy. You want to lose that | | | | the course of a normal day. Write down all the |
| excess weight and feel better about yourself. You | | | | foods you eat, and at what time you ate that |
| want to make a permanent, healthy life style | | | | food. It is a proven fact that people |
| change, and this is the best way to lose stomach | | | | underestimate what they eat on any given day |
| fat. | | | | by about 50%. So while you may think that you |
| The reason that this is the best way to lose | | | | only consumed 2,000 calories, it may be closer to |
| stomach fat is that overall changes will first show | | | | the truth that you actually consumed 4,000 |
| up as a loss of fat from your stomach. This is | | | | calories. |
| because not only is it the last place we pack on a | | | | Getting a handle on your caloric intake is just one |
| lot of weight, it is the first place where a | | | | piece of the overall puzzle. Reducing those calories |
| noticeable loss of weight occurs. | | | | is another important step. In removing around 250 |
| While it is possible to tone your stomach, if you | | | | calories from your diet each day, you will remove |
| don't look at the big picture of losing weight as a | | | | 1,750 calories in a week. One pound is roughly |
| whole, you won't get far with your goals. You can | | | | 3,500 calories, so if you think about it this way, |
| tone your stomach, but if it is covered in a layer | | | | cutting out 250 calories per day will allow you to |
| of fat, there is no way that those muscles will be | | | | lose one pound every two weeks. |
| noticeable. | | | | This is an achievable goal and the more slowly |
| Your first step on any weight loss journey should | | | | that you lose weight, the more chance you have |
| be an overview. What this means is that you | | | | to keep it off permanently. |