Flatter Stomach 101: Basic Guide for Flatter Abdominals

Flatter stomach is a wishful thinking for a large population in this earth. Men and women have often complained about their love handles and how persistent the love handles are. The fact is we have to know what compose the love handles before we start trying to lose it. Here are my personal guides to lose your beer belly, Flatter Stomach 101, which are based on my personal experience and have been tested on myself.

Love handles are actually excess calories that are stored in your body. The origin of the name is unknown but it has a lot of nicknames such as beer belly and beer gut. But so far no one have declared love with their love handles anyway. So the excess calories intake are stored in your body, this is more common found in Men because the midsection is one of the first area where fat is stored in the male body. While women also have their love handles but more fat are actually stored around their hips and thighs. Let me sum up the things that you can do easily everyday to lose your love handles quickly in this Flatter Stomach 101.

First you have to improve the quality of your consumption! You should approximately eat four servings of vegetables and fruits per day. Since its fat that you want to burn, negative calories ingredients are a must in your daily consumption. The negative calories fruits and vegetables are Onions and Garlic, Cucumber, Tomato, Cabbage, Celery, Lettuce, Mandarin Oranges, Apricot and Melon. You can choose to consume the fruits individually or have it served together with the vegetables as salad. A good trick here is to eat salad made from negative calories ingredients for lunch and consume the fruits as snacks in the night or afternoon. You should not eat too much cheese, artificial sugar and fried foods. By consuming negative calories ingredients everyday our body will need more energy to digest them through the long process and absorb the nutrients, which in turn will help burning the calories.

Second you need to do cardio exercises to burn away that fat. Twenty to forty five minutes of activities like walking, running or biking are the exercises you can do on your daily activities. For example you can try to park a little farther than usual to your office and walk there. You should also try using the stairs to climb 5 - 7 floors. While these daily exercises help, you need to do a proper exercise too at the gym. If you are a woman try a high impact aerobic class, or any vigorous moving dance class. While for men you can do your tread mill or stationary bike with the cardio training level set. Be sure to contact your trainer before you try heavy cardio exercise. By doing this regularly you will burn extra fat in your body and your love handles will come off last.

Third you should drink at least 8 glasses of water everyday. This may sounds old but water can increase your body metabolism and help you to fight off your cravings. More water can actually turn the stored fat into energy faster. Try also not to consume any alcoholic drinks. It's called beer belly for a reason, and beer is the reason. So you should resort to water in any circumstances.

Last, to help hiding the love handles spot you need to do some stomach muscle exercises. Lie on the floor with your back flat against the floor. And put your hands behind your head without locking your hands. Face slightly down and start curling your stomach, exhale once you curl your stomach and inhale when you lie down after curling. Do this for four sets of ten. Then do another exercise to train your lower abdominal. Just follow the same instructions but instead of curling your stomach, you should raise your legs until it's vertical against your body. Do these for four sets of ten. These are the basic stomach muscle exercises that should get you going. While you are at gym doing your cardio you should always do additional crunch exercises such as side crunch.

With all these combinations of exercises you have stepped a foot closer to your flat stomach goal. Remember that love handles love you and they won't go off quickly so persistence is of course required. In summary you need to eat healthy foods (negative calories salad and fruits for nutrition while limiting calories), do a lot of walking and cardio exercises, drink a lot of water and do routine abdominal exercises.