LOSING BELLY FAT: IS IT POSSIBLE?

You may have seen ads for products that guarantee to burn belly fat quickly and easily. Or perhaps you just want to lose fat from around your abdomen. Is it possible?

The answer is no…and yes.

Losing excess belly fat is a good goal because excess weight around the middle has been linked to a whole host of serious medical conditions including metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and more. But you can’t just spot lose belly fat. You must reduce your overall body fat stores. If you are someone who tends to store weight around the middle, this  is where most of your fat loss will come from. For what it’s worth, most people carry excess fat around their abdomen.

So, no…Supplements, weight loss aids, or specific foods can burn belly fat. And no spot exercises are designed to target just this trouble zone.

But, yes! You can lose abdominal fat by following a balanced, low-calorie, high-protein, high-nutrition diet paired with regular exercise and behavioral counseling.

Many weight loss products and aids promise a quick and easy fix, which is appealing. But in the long run, these products don’t deliver. They can lead to muscle loss and rebound weight gain, and in the worst-case scenario, be truly hazardous to your health. It’s best to resist their claims and stay away.

It’s not magic, but CMWL’s customized weight loss plans – supervised by a medical professional trained in weight loss – will help you lose weight the right way; by reducing fat –  including belly fat –  while preserving lean muscle mass. We use body composition monitoring, which allows you to track not only how much total body weight you are losing, but how much of it is fat, muscle, or water – and exactly which parts of the body those losses are coming from. Having access to that data is essential to knowing which type of weight you are losing. To be clear, you want to lose the fat weight and increase the lean muscle mass and water weight percentages.