How To Beat Ugly (and DANGEROUS) Abdominal Fat

Not only is excess abdominal fat ugly sitting as a flabby layer on top of your pristine 6 pack abs, that extra fat is actually also dangerous to your health...

Why?...
It's simple. Abdominal fat is a symptom of poor health. The more you listen to your "consumer mentality" mindset and ignore the "righteous mentality" side, the more you fall into the trap of eating the foods that are well marketed instead of the foods that fuel fat burning processes, and also taste AWESOME!

But this is not just about right and wrong. It's about your lifestyle choices, and how you choose to live. If you listen to the common fantasies about doing crunches and dieting to get flat abs then, like 99% of us, you will fail to reach your goals of abdominal fat loss.

The truth is, it's easy to beat ugly abdominal fat. The exercises are easy and can fit into ANY schedule because they are time effective and adaptable. The food tastes AMAZING and will enrich your life and health more than any starvation diet will ever do.

An easy way to start winning this battle is to start a commitment. Buy at least 2 super-foods which you are going to include in your regular eating and eliminate at least 1 fat-friend-food. Now if you are currently doing some form of exercise, like walking, mix into this just 1 minute of high-intensity exercise. This is an awesome start for anyone trying to beat abdominal fat, not only for the amazing transformation in your looks, but also in your health.

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Dandelion Tea To Burn Fat

Back in May this year I wrote a little spot on dandelion tea and how awesome it can be to burn fat. I love this stuff so much that I just had to give you a reminder about how powerful little things can be in aiding to lose stomach fat. After all, why not try dandelion tea to help burn fat? It tastes great, has loads of benefits and can be easily substituted into your regular diet as a coffee replacement.

Also, if you want to DOUBLE your fat burning potential, use stevia as a sweetener and I guarantee you'll start to notice a difference in your body within a week!

But don't stop there by any means. There are so many simple little ways that can help you to burn massive amounts of fat and get six pack abs really fast. By using a combinational approach implementing very little known methods, you're way ahead of the pack already!

Dandelion tea is not the only fat burning tea out there either. In fact most teas have some form of beneficial fat burning properties that help in a massive way and make it heaps easier to lose fat.

Remember: It is always simple things that make a big difference. Just implement it and you'll see for yourself how awesome it can be!

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10 Simple Things That Burn Fat

You have to admit, it's not always easy to achieve a health and fitness goal based around fat loss. In fact, it may be one of the most challenging things to achieve full stop. One reason for this is that there is a serious lack of sound knowledge accepted wholly by the health and fitness community.
Another reason I can think of is that people over complicate things. Really fat burning is not that hard. It's about doing simple things consistently and sticking with the mindset of achieving that goal to lose stomach fat or whatever your goal may be.
Here's a list of 10 simple things that burn fat:

1. Walking - everyone walks right, so try to make walking a part of your daily routine if you haven't already - like most things it won't make a difference on its own but if you combine it with other techniques it can be powerful.

2. Drinking water - don't count coffee and juices towards your daily water count, drink at least 6 large glasses of water each day to replenish your cells and flush out fat-storing toxins.

3. Exercise habitually (outside of walking) - Find something you love doing which gives you a good workout and stick it into your weekly schedule.

4. Don't refuse exercise if you can help it - make movement a priority and put other things second.

5. Ask a friend to commit with you - find a fitness bootcamp or another activity and get a friend to join in.

6. Make yourself an adventurer - Almost everyone loves a bit of adventure right? So commit to do some form of adventure activity once per month - get some friends involved and do it!

7. Make a note of refusing to eat over-processed garbage disguised as food! Eat fresh, vitamin-packed foods each day and watch how much fat comes off.

8. Reward your good efforts - If you've done well throughout the week (keep a food diary to make sure) then give yourself a reward. This gives you power and reinforces the good habits to make sure you have maximum motivation to keep it up.

9. Stop listening to what your "friends" say when they are being negative - switch yourself on and listen carefully to what people say. You can still love someone and not agree with them all the time. Do what's good for you!

10. Sign up to a blog like this one and read good quality information diligently - Once you know all there is to know, you can put it into practice and achieve great things with fat loss.

That's it! You should be able to EASILY do 5 of these things regularly. With a bit of extra effort, you should be able to do all 10 and keep it going. You will definitely achieve results in terms of fat loss if you do.

Stomach Exercise Structure Basics

There are loads of different ways to perform an exercise session as you are most likely already aware!
So what's the best way to get down and dirty and do some effective stomach exercise?
The answer is going to be different for each person. And this is exactly why we end up with a tonne of myths in the fitness industry. No two people are the same and so no exercise structure is the same.

What we CAN do, however, is create some really effective general programming and let the individual make up their own mind on how it works for them.

So, in basic terms, when you're performing a stomach exercise routine, you want to make sure it has the following sections covered:

• A general warm up
• Specific warm up sets
• Oblique targeting
• Rectus abdominis targeting
• Functional focus

So what we are aiming for here is a safe stomach exercise structure that gets some great results all over your body. After all, usually it's the stomach FAT that is preventing you from having a flat stomach NOT the stomach muscles.

A general warm up could be anything from a jog, skipping, a bicycle ride etc. usually for about 3 - 5 min. 

A specific warm up is a little trickier in that it is basically a brief warm up for the section you will focus on next. If you're doing bench press for example, a few pushups is a specific warm up.

As far as targeting specific stomach muscles, this should almost always be done using some type of functional exercise. Burpees are a great example of an exercise that burns loads of fat and works your rectus abdominis at the same time, giving you a flat, toned stomach as the end result.

So that is just a few basics of a stomach exercise structure. I hope you got something great out of it. Remember, it's almost always the small things that count BIG cumulatively.

Cinnamon Almonds - Awesome Fat Burning Treat!

It's amazing the things you can find day to day that will help you lost belly fat drastically just by using what's already around you!

I had a coffee this morning at a nice little cafe and got 2 little cinnamon almonds on the side... Nothing special right?

Well, I wasn't over impressed at the sugar coating of the almonds, that's certainly not going to do your stomach fat any favors. What made it interesting though was that the almonds were covered in cinnamon, an amazingly powerful thermogenic fat-burner. So naturally what sprung to my mind was...

All you have to do to that is replace the sugar with some stevia and voila! You have an awesome, tasty fat burning snack you can take to work and use to control sugar cravings.

Little things like this can be extremely powerful. Not only is the cinnamon going to help you burn fat, you're also going to get loads of protein, vitamins and minerals from the almonds.

Don't take for granted the awesome power of implementing a little thing like this to help you lose stomach fat. This 1 tip alone could help you lose at least 2 pounds of pure fat in a week!

3 Weird Breakfast Foods To Help You Lose Belly Fat

We all know what a typical healthy breakfast is right?
The fact is, most of us simply don't want to change habits, especially if it's going to result in all those dreaded "health foods" that nobody likes to eat.
Well, regardless of that, I'm going to give you a few truly awesome and interesting foods to add into your breakfast each day (or every other day) and these are all MAJOR fat burning foods.

Weird Breakfast Food #1: Broccoli
Yes, that's right. These green trees pack a very decent punch to that stomach fat and it's highly due to their overloaded content of vitamins & minerals and its ability to produce a mega thermogenic effect. Broccoli is one of the "kings" of the cruciferous vegetable family and as such, you could expect that it gets loads of points for fat burning. Now, you probably heard of having broccoli for dinner, I'd expect, but many people have never tried this fresh, vitamin loaded vegetable as part of a breakfast. You can even just add it as a side to some freshly poached eggs. And 1 more thing... Eat as much of this stuff as you want, the more the better.

Weird Breakfast Food #2: Cinnamon
If you can imagine it, you'll well and truly reap the benefits. Cinnamon is yet another thermogenic power-house as it contains loads of fat-burning properties. The trick here is not to fall into a "sugar and cinnamon" trap. Just add cinnamon to your breakfast wherever you can; muesli, porridge, oats, pancakes, fruit salad. The list is virtually endless. You can even add it into your morning coffee for an extra boost.

Weird Breakfast Food #3: Pepitas
OK, here we have a very important, nutritious, protein-rich food that can be added to almost any breakfast as well. Pepitas (or dried pumpkin seeds) are one of the healthiest foods there is and they taste awesome! Not only are they rich in important non-animal proteins, but they also double as a highly effective parasite exterminator (to some extent) and are often used in parasite removal formulas.

So that's it, incorporate these 3 foods into your daily breakfast foods and you'll start losing belly fat faster than you think.


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Finding Energy To Exercise Part 3 of 3 - Developing Super Powers

So in the last 2 installments of this brief series on how to boost your energy dramatically, I mentioned, (a) how your mindset can be a major influence on your energy levels and (b) what kinds of foods you should focus on getting and what kind of foods you must remove from your diet.
Today, in the last little bit about boosting energy to help you lose stomach fat, I wanted to make a special mention to developing super powers and how it can drastically improve your energy levels and your results with your general fitness regime....
Well, I must be honest, I'm NOT talking about super powers in a traditional sense. You won't be able to fly and you probably won't be able to lift buildings et cetera. What I mean by super powers is your ability to define yourself.
Now a lot of people have extremely busy lives but this often stops them from getting the results they want in terms of their health and fitness. When you refuse to give in to your "busy-ness" and make it absolutely essential to fit some daily exercise into your routine, you are pretty well (by my standards) developing some super-powers. You see this step is simply a choice to get up and do something (exercise) even when you don't feel like it. You will notice a huge boost in energy, motivation and your health and fitness will thank you for it. Not to mention a drop in belly fat as a bonus.
So that's it for now, next edition I'm going to give you some really juicy facts and weird breakfast ideas to help you lose stomach fat.

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