If You Want Flat Abs, Never Do These Things

Picture yourself looking in the mirror at your clearly defined abs thinking, & #8220;Wow, everything paid off. These abs are really mine!” Can you hear your family and friends telling you, “Wow, you look really great! What have you been doing?” Do you know how great it’s going to feel to be able to walk confidently in public, 100% secure with yourself?

Well, don’t shoot the messanger, but that won’t happen if you stick to these 2 things:

Going on Fad Diets

– Processed Foods

If you want to lose body fat naturally, STAY AWAY from fad diets.

This is what happens when you go on any of those “low fat”, “low carb”, “low calorie” diets; you do not provide your body with a healthy balance of the vitamins and nutrients it needs to keep running properly, especiallyneed for systems like your metabolism.

Fad diets cause your body to store extra body fat because the rate that it burns calories is much slower to conserve resources. Your stomach doesn’t comprehend the difference between not getting food to meet weight loss oals and not getting food because there IS no food. This is why it goes into “starvation mode”.

Once it’s in that mode, the body will burn your muscle to use for energy instead of body fat. Your weight will appear to go down on the scale but it’s not healthy weight loss. By not having muscle that will burn calories for you when you’re relaxing, the body will convert food into fat much more easily once you get back into your regular eating habits. Your body won’t have the muscle anymore to convert the calories from the food so it will get stored as fat. That’s why you notice an increase in weight after a fad diet.

Avoid processed foods if you want to uncover your sexy abs within.

There are 2 main ingredients in processed foods that actually make you fatter and cause all kinds of other health problems.

Artificial trans fats are found in cooking ingredients like hard margarine, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils (mainly used to prolong the shelf life of processed foods to maximize profits), and shortening. These are found in most processed foods, like I said to make it available longer without compromising taste or profits.

The major health concern? Coronary Heart Disease.

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is added to almost every food on the shelves that needs sweetened. It extends the shelf life of food as well without compromising taste. It’s sweeter than sugar so it can be used less and it’s cheaper to companies can buy more.

What is one major health concern? Obesity.

These two dangerous ingredients create a dramatic spike in your blood sugar levels (also known as a “sugar high”), which turn into those draining crashes. This dangerous cycle actually increases your cravings for refined sugars and simple carbs, which turn into extra body fat.

With the recent methods of food processing, our food is actually missing of many of the healthy nutrients and vitamins needed for a healthy body! So what we believe we’re feeding ourselves and our families is hardly close to what it really is. Why do you think we have so many health problems to deal with now? If we could avoid these 2 ingredients in processed foods and fad diets by eating organic, unprocessed food, we would provide ourselves with REAL food full of vitamins our bodies need AND lose weight t the same time!

Diet is EXTREMELY important when trying to get flat abs. Everyone has a decent set of abs on them; they’re just hidden under layers of fat. In order to get VISIBLE abs, you need to lower your body fat percentage by avoiding the things above.