Diets to Get Rid of a Huge Stomach

As the body ages, weight collects around the stomach and can be very difficult to lose. While it may be tempting to use a fad diet to lose the weight around your stomach, there is no way to lose just your belly fat. A sensible diet offers healthy weight loss from the stomach as well as everywhere on your body. This type of diet does not make any grand promises of speedy weight loss, but it is healthy and long lasting.

Making Better Choices

• According to Dr. Amit Khera, the best way to lose weight effectively is to eat less calories than you burn each day. This will result in a one-pound weight loss for each reduction of 3500 calories. For instance, if you eliminate 500 calories from your diet every day, at the end of a week you will have reached 3500 calories and lost one pound of weight.
  Your choices in food make all the difference in how quickly and efficiently you will lose weight. Reducing calories beyond 500 per day may seem as though it will result in faster weight loss, but the body may slow metabolism to protect against starvation with this extremely low calorie intake.

  Choose healthy foods from all of the USDA food groups. Lean sources of protein and lower calorie fruits and vegetables should replace processed foods and sweets.

Plan Your Meals

• Start a meal plan to help you on your stomach shrinking diet. No diet plan can specifically shrink the stomach area and help you to lose belly fat. The diet that will work best for you is one that you plan on your own. This allows you to choose the foods that you enjoy from the food groups.
  Plan your meals and snacks in advance to help you get through a week of dieting without temptation and in between meal snacking.

The Danger of Fads

• As more people become overweight or obese, more fad diets pop up on the market that promise to take off the extra pounds and even lose the dreaded stomach fat. These fad diets often restrict entire categories of food and lower daily caloric intake to such a low level that the body goes into starvation mode. You will lose weight in the beginning on these programs, but they are difficult to sustain and it becomes difficult to lose more weight over time. When the diets end, the weight comes back and in many cases more weight than was lost.
  Even if your stomach seems huge, it is best to take your weight loss slow at a reasonable pace for your body. One to two pounds per week is a reasonable rate and will eventually take the weight off your stomach area. It may be the last place to go, but it will be lost.