Marina Trapani - Belly Fat Free: Lose Belly Fat with the Blood Type Diet and Other Dieting Recipes

Belly Fat Free Diet

Lose Belly Fat with the Blood Type Diet and Other Dieting Recipes

Marina Trapani and Brittni Drayer

Copyright 2013 Marina Trapani and Brittni Drayer

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Losing belly fat is possible through dieting and exercise. It is a whole body approach though. It would take forever to lose the belly fat if all you did was go on a "low fat" diet and did sit-ups or belly crunches. If you work to lose fat on the whole body, the belly fat would come off too. Dieting alone may help to lose the belly fat, certain foods help to boost metabolism, which helps to burn the fat. Exercise is another component that works along with dieting in toning the body. Dieting alone will take a lot longer to achieve the desired results of a flat tummy than if you combine it with exercise.

Belly fat is particularly hard to lose, so it takes proper dedication to want to lose the fat in this area. The benefit of losing the belly fat is a healthier heart, especially if you combine diet with exercise. The exercises that help to lose the belly fat will be cardiovascular exercise such as walking, bicycling, swimming, aerobics, and strength training such as weight lifting and using the gym equipment. Another side benefit to losing belly fat is a reduction in feeling stress. It is not an overnight fat loss, the belly fat takes time to lose if you lose it the proper way.

Eating healthy nutritious foods is the best start to losing the belly fat. Not all foods are good for losing belly fat, but especially complex carbs and protein. The diets within this book offer these foods in the recipe ingredient lists. This requires a change in dieting lifestyle, because probably what put the belly fat there in the first place are the foods you are now eating. The worse foods for adding fat to the body is anything junky, like refined and processed foods. Most "convenient" foods fall under this category. The best foods are lean cuts of meat, fresh fruits and vegetables and high fiber food such as whole grains.

Ironically, eating "good" fats help with belly fat loss. Good fats are called monounsaturated fatty acids. Consuming monounsaturated fatty acids will help to reduce the belly fat because they are a "fat burning" food. Incorporate foods such as olives, nuts, avocados, dark chocolate, and seeds. Oils are beneficial too; use olive oil whenever you can. Just 1 tablespoon of olive oil a day will help the body to shed the belly fat.

When dieting to lose belly fat there are foods you want to avoid other than the obvious junk foods. You want to avoid foods that may cause gas and bloating, which will make the belly appear to be "fat." Avoid cabbage, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts and opt to eat other "green" vegetables such as green beans, kale, peas, and spinach. Be aware that some artificial sweeteners will cause excessive gas and bloating, so avoid sorbitol too.

Water is always the best drink for any diet, but especially for losing belly fat. Ironically, drinking plenty of water and staying hydrated will help to prevent water retention. Water retention normally shows up in the belly. Avoid sugary drinks and stick with water whenever possible. If you forgo all other drinks and drink water only, you will lose the weight and fat faster.

In addition to eating right, add exercise workouts to your belly fat loss plans. As mentioned above, just dieting alone will take a long time to lose the belly fat. Whatever the reason for having the belly fat, exercise will be very helping is losing it.

As mentioned above, a full body workout is the best for losing belly fat. If there is belly fat on the body then chances are there is fat elsewhere. It is difficult to target just the belly without including other areas of the body as well. Start by adding low impact aerobics or walking to have a good cardio workout. Do this for 20 minutes, with a five minute warm up and a five minute cool down before and after the workout. Do this at least every other day or do it daily if you can. This helps to raise the metabolism, which gives the body enough energy to burn calories and fat, including belly fat.

The cardio workouts should be a part of the whole exercise routine. The cardio will target the whole body. You can focus on the belly too, as long as you do other things along with it to include the whole body. Lay on your back, bring your knees to your chest, hands down at your side, and hold. Gently lift your buttocks up slightly and hold to a count of ten. Repeat this for five to ten to twenty times, working up to the higher counts. This targets the belly very well.

Another good belly fat reducing exercise is to get on all fours (on your knees and hands). Breathe as you do this, breathe in as you bow your back, and lift your belly up in an arch. Breathe out, bring the back down, and sway it the other way. Do this and hold at the top, then hold at the bottom for a few seconds. Do this about ten times. These make a great warm up or cool down exercise too, so use this with the cardiovascular workouts.

Work up to doing longer exercise sessions. Start slow though, with doing half hour workouts every other day. Work up to increasing it to an hour at a time and to daily workouts. Couple exercising like this with the diets in this book and the belly fat should melt away. Stay on course and avoid the junky sugary foods as much as possible. Make the diet change a lifestyle change and continue to eat healthy nutritious foods even after the belly fat is gone. If you go back to the old way of eating, the fat may come back.

Always clear any new diet or exercise routine with your physician first to make sure your body is able to withstand the changes.

The blood type diet has gained in popularity over the past two decades since Dr. Peter D'Adamo first came out with his book 4 Blood Types, 4 Diets, Eat Right 4 Your Type. While the existence for the need for such a diet remains controversial, you will find strong advocates for it along with their blood type theories. However, at this point and time, there has been no actual scientific or medical research in depth to prove or disprove the theories that a person should stick with a particular diet based solely on their blood type. You can find plenty of support in the theory, just run an internet search about this and see all the websites that stand behind the theory that each blood type needs a certain type of diet.

Since we are discussing the blood type diet, it helps to know the different blood types. We will touch on different types for introduction purposes. First, the blood type is measured from the antigens, the proteins that exist on red blood cells. The blood types O, A, and B are the most common. When a person is blood type A only the type A antigens resides on the surface of the red blood cells. The same goes with type B. Type AB contains both. Blood type O contains neither. There is a third antigen called the Rh factor and it either exists or does not, thus you have the "positive" and "negative" ratings of blood types. Of all the blood types, "O positive" is the most common in the world, with A being a close second.

A naturopathic physician name Peter D' Adamo is the pioneer who first came up with the blood type diet theory, devising an entire diet system around a person's blood type. Many others follow along with the blood type diet theory that the need for a particular diet for each blood type has evolved through the years due to the changes in the environment and in people's methods of obtaining food. He proposes that if a person eats certain foods that go against their blood types they will become weak and the result can show up as diseases and even weight gain.