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If you want to lose abdominal fat, then this is the article for you. Read on for some great tips on how to lose abdominal fat and more importantly keep it off for good.

1. This is old one but one of the best ones – get into your veggies! Eat at least 5 servings of veggies a day, and you will be on your way to maintaining a healthy weight. Fresh vegetables are high in nutrition, low in calories and loaded with fiber. Look at adding plenty of vegetables to every meal, preferably half a plate filled with veggies like spinach. Not only will it help keep your calories lower, it will help you stay fuller longer. Vegetables can really help curb hunger pains.

2. Know what you are eating – Keep an eye on your food label the next time you do some grocery shopping. If you want to have a healthy diet, your food labels play a critical role in improving your nutritional habits. Make sure that the foods you are choosing don’t have any trans-fat in them. Also try to avoid foods with a high amount of calories per serving. Quick tip: the bigger the food per serving the more full you’ll usually feel after eating it. Try and stick with foods that are large, with a small amount of calories, and avoid small foods with a lot of calories.

3. Get into strength training – not only does it strengthen your bones, it controls body fat. Muscle burns more calories than fat at rest, thereby increasing your resting metabolic rate. So the more muscle you build through weight training, the more calories you burn, minimising the amount of fat that is available to deposit. And this message for women – get into it now and avoid those light weights (it ain’t going to jolt your metabolism).

4. Farewell Fats – regardless of whether you’re using healthy olive and sunflower oils instead of butter or lard to taste, baked or fired food, all fats have the same high calorie content and will add weight if used in excess. Cutting out one tablespoon daily of any kind of fat or oil – by dry frying food in a non-stick pan, grilling, baking or simply using a quick blast of spray oil – can see you go down a full clothing size in a year.

5. Trim your treats (don’t cut it off completely) – can’t go without a couple of biscuits at morning tea? Then simply swap those custard creams for plain, semi sweet treats (bikkies). You’ll still enjoy a sweet taste, but with less fat and sugar, which still help control your blood glucose and your weight. Switching to healthier snacks is not only better for your waistline it’s better for your overall health to. Doing it this way is more sensible than depriving yourself of the occasional flirt with your favorite food.

Although losing weight is hard work – it should not be about food deprivation. Instead it should be about making positive changes over time, enjoying your favorite foods in moderation but in the same time reducing the amount of bad foods you eat, and getting some kind of regular exercise. And when you blend all this in, you are well on your way to losing that abdominal fat. So take action, be consistent and stay patient.

Source: Weight Loss