Should Your Belly Be Flat

Look at children. They stand easy with no attempt to "hold in their belly" or "look better". They simply are. They run and play and have way too much energy.

If those children become over weight or obese, they develop fat all over - not just in the belly area. So logic tells us that the apple shape, the belly fat is an adult disease. We blame it on having children or too much beer or cokes. We may even agree that belly fat develops when we eat fatty, fried or sugary foods, drink too much alcohol or sugary drinks and decrease our exercise.

We love to read that our fatty body is due to a virus. That implies a cure - except no other virus has a miracle cure except time and rest and whatever immunity your body has developed.

We need to accept once and for all that belly fat is totally our fault. And the only way you can get rid of belly fat is to reduce body fat.

Stop thinking of belly fat as some special beast. It is fat, hard to eliminate fat, but none the less it is fat.

Remember that muscle weighs more than fat, so don't concentrate on the scales and losing pounds. Concentrate on losing inches, even 1/8" is a measurable gain in health.

Think of mass. A pound of fat is many times bigger than a pound of muscle - think basketball and tennis ball.

So you gotta watch what you eat and drink but you also have to exercise. The diet will reduce the fat but it will not build the muscle.

You need to build the muscle base to hold your internal organs in place, to stand upright, to breathe with ease, to live with joy and freedom to move.

until next time - move that body
Sharon
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