So you’ve tried all those miracle fat loss diet plans and nothing works. Not surprising, honestly. What these fad diets are trying to do is make money fast and easy. They want you to think that there’s an easy way out, something that will involve eating whatever the heck you want, sitting around all day, and watching pounds fall off like magic. They’ll tell you what you want to hear, but they’ll never share with you facts about how to lose belly fat. Sadly, this has been the cause of misinformation in dieting for decades now. Look, follow these steps, and you’ll lose weight in a safe, healthy, effective and efficient way.

More Water

Go into your fridge, and if you have more soda in there than a single twelve ounce can, you drink too much soda. Try this: Next time you’re at a restaurant, order water, not soda, juice, coffee, or tea. In the morning, skip the sugar laden coffee and drink a glass of water and a vitamin B tablet. When you do drink tea, skip the sugar. It’s not so much that water is what you need, though you do need to stay hydrated, rather, you need water in place of a whole bunch of other things. If you want to curb your appetite, then what you want to do is drink more water, as most people mistake signs of thirst for signs of hunger. Drink more water and listen to nobody who tells you otherwise.

Avoid Fats and Extra Protein

You do need protein, but when you hear about people eating all red meat and losing weight, the reason they’re losing weight is because they’re deliberately making themselves ill. They’re deliberately putting their body out of whack to the point where they’re actually starving themselves, despite loading up on protein. With the all protein and fat diet, what you’re doing is blocking your intestines (not to mention your arteries) and overdosing on one nutrient while ignoring the others. If you’re not following the food pyramid, you’re not losing weight in a healthy way.

Get Your Exercise

There is no such thing as a healthy diet that allows you to lose weight without exercise. There just plain isn’t. Fat is extra energy, and without expending that extra energy, it’s going to stay exactly where it is: On your stomach, in your hips, and all over your backside. If you’re not exercising, you’re not losing weight in a good, healthy, and safe way. You’re losing muscle mass, sure. You’re losing bone density and organ tissue, that’s a given. But you’re not burning fat unless you’re actually BURNING that fat off.

If you found this article in the hopes of finding another miracle diet to try, then sorry to say, that’s not what this is about. The fact is that fat loss amounts to common sense: Water, diet, exercise, and that’s it. But common sense hardly ever prevails in the current fitness world. It’s become very much of an industry, a way for people to get rich selling what you want to hear but never what you need to hear. The real answers of how to lose belly fat don’t sell, easy answers sell, and this leads to a lot of myths and information floating around. If you eat well and exercise, though, then you should be able to burn that fat off easily enough. 

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