How to LOSE STUBBORN BELLY FAT - 5 Biggest Mistakes! ⚠️🚨

How to lose stubborn belly fat - avoid these common mistakes!

1️⃣ CALORIES

❌ Stop cutting calories in half to lose weight. It is unnecessary and will only risk a fast decrease in your metabolism, making feasibility harder!

✅ A deficit should be around 15-20% of your current maintenance. I also recommend including Diet Breaks (staying in 1-2 week periods on your maintenance) to give yourself mentally and physically a break from the deficit. This allows you to really stick to your diet long term = stubborn areas can start to „melt“.

2️⃣ SUGAR

❌ When someone wants to quit sugar, my brain gets itchy. It doesn’t solve the problem! After quitting sugar for a while you still don’t know how to include little treats into your diet without overeating. You’re basically „training“ the wrong thing if it is your goal to maintain your weight long-term.

✅ Eat your favorite chocolate cake or whatever you might like occasionally. Incorporate those things while being in a deficit. This is how you learn to eat those foods in moderation, not by extremes.

3️⃣ CARDIO

❌ Cardio is not required for fat loss and achieving a „toned“ body. A lot of cardio can ramp up your hunger feeling for more calories than you have burned through it.

✅ Focus on strength training if you want to change your body composition. Feel free to integrate 1-2 cardio sessions or conditioning workouts. But don’t add a ton of cardio to burn fat. Most important is that you are in a caloric deficit, which is easiest to be ensured by measuring your calorie intake.

4️⃣ CHEAT DAYS

❌ Cheat days are the best way to develop an eating disorder. Cheat days and very restrictive days train your brain in black-or-white thinking. It also promotes overeating, which can quickly destroy your deficit when looking at average consumed calories.

✅ Allow yourself some unprocessed or even ultra-processed foods like cake, chocolate, etc., every day. By allowing yourself to integrate those foods, your cravings for them will decrease. I recommend eating 80% of your calories from unprocessed foods to ensure satiety and 20% of „soul food“.

5️⃣ CARBS

❌ I thought we were done with that, but I still see people cutting carbs for no reason. Look, some restrictions have a purpose and make sense (e.g., calories in a moderate way, food restrictions for ethical, moral, or allergy reasons). However, some restrictions don’t make sense and don’t fulfill your purpose of losing weight. Being in a deficit is the essential factor for losing body fat. Technically, these calories could come from carbs only, and you would lose weight. This is not a recommendation of mine since we should also integrate proteins and healthy fats, but it just goes to show that carbs are not making you fat or losing weight. The opposite could happen when eating on a low-carb diet because your body is stressed and trying to conserve energy.

✅ Eat according to a balanced macro intake. You can shift carbs and fats a little bit based on what you desire most but don’t cut any of them out of your diet.

Suppose you do all these five aspects correctly; well, then, you should see good progress in the next weeks and months.☺️

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[emilyadamson]

She is saying not to quit sugar because you'll just binge on it later. Same with cheat days. They'll just turn to binge days.

[sadisticgirl_]

these videos gaslight me into thinking I don't need to do anything

[seravensar]

Quitting white sugar and replacing it with fruits and natural sugars literally helped me a lot in diet and cleared up my acne

[Zana_W]

Having cheat days helps me not overeating everything. 🤷‍♀️

[channyngtatum]

Quitting sugar is one of the best things you could do

Edit: *quitting excessive sugar consumption (please stay healthy everyone!)

[MiaJohnson-xm]

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[LatteForAnyone]

Having cardio all the time here and i assure you, my stomach DOES getting smaller. No abs, just smaller and slimmer.

[MsMusicpulse]

quitting sugar is the best thing a person can do for the general health

[alisha]

Everyone’s body is different and we all burn calories differently; I was able to lose 50 pounds with just doing cardio. Don’t let her discourage you if there’s something you’re doing that works for you.

[ESKATEUK]

You can’t remove “stubborn belly fat”. You just remove fat equally across the whole body. And to do so, eating a healthy, balanced diet in a slight deficit along with some cardio and general training will get the desired results.

[malifanowshinnova]

Fact is everyone is different, everyone's routine is different, different body reacts differently. What works for me, might not work for somebody else. So what we can do is, know what works for us.

[deadvalentin]

I honestly think that the sugar part depends on the person, because personaly cutting out sugar is one of the best choices I've made while loosing weight

[mynamename]

I quit sugar couple years ago... My skin never felt better. But you need to replace it with a lots of fruits.

[Noyya]

I wish you added a reason even if its long we still can pause it. - because for example I'm still standing with no sugar it has so many benefits and I'm only talking about the sugar in candy not fruits Having cheat days : Ik its bad but its very good for motivation.

[v.oceanyc]

Actually, cheat days have helped me to stay consistent during the week, but always remembering to listen to my body in those days so I don’t end up wanting to throw up because i ate everything I see

[willow_dearest]

I have “cheat days” but I don’t use them as binge fests, I use them as days where I can have like bagel or ham and cheese!

[deadcat_]

as someone who had an ED for more than two years (which started out as me trying to be "healthy" and lose weight), i can tell you she's actually not wrong.

it's messed up to think about how every other website and influencer tells you about how you need to starve yourself or cut something out of your diet to look as what society considers beautiful or healthy.

if you feel like you're in a situation where you're constantly starving yourself or working out to the point where you're passing out, please talk to someone.

your health and wellbeing matters a lot more, and nothing should make you feel like you need to make such sacrifices. eating is a necessity, not a method to punish yourself.

take care everyone.

[Receding_hairline_check]

I love cardio actually, wether it is dribbling for soccer, running a quarter mile, 70-yard dashes, any sort of jumping it’s just really fun

[jengal]

So true. I was doing so much cardio and didn't see results; cut back all the foods I loved, then ended up binge eating. Now i eat in moderation and do mostly weight lifting. I finally have a healthier body 😊😊

[IsaacMorgan]

People, whenever people tell you to loose fat in a specific part of your body. Move on, this person ain't worth the time