4 Ways To Cut Down Your Body Fat.

Let's start with the "good" fat — the fatty layer just beneath your skin in the lower half of your body. It's called subcutaneous fat, and it's not necessarily the worst thing to have. Subcutaneous fat gives rise to two beneficial metabolic hormones: leptin, the hormone that tells your body to hang onto or let go of weight, and adiponectin, a hormone that lowers your blood sugar. A Harvard study found that subcutaneous fat might help improve sensitivity to insulin and prevent diabetes.

The fat in your stomach area, on the other hand, is bad news. Known as visceral fat, it's hidden deep down, so even if you don't have a protruding belly (a signal for some that they have it), you could still harbor this "bad" kind of fat. Visceral fat lies far beneath your skin, where it surrounds your organs and sets off a harmful hormonal firestorm. Having this metabolically horrific fat slows your metabolism, lowers growth hormone, raises cortisol, creates insulin resistance, and increases your risk of all kinds of diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and fatty liver disease

HOW TO CUT DOWN VISCERAL FAT

1. LISTEN TO YOUR GUT & BODY'S SIGNS WHILE FOLLOWING A HEALTHY BALANCED NUTRITION PLAN.

Did you know that what you eat, can send different signals to your body to either burn FAT OR SUGAR?? Yep, it does this through YOUR HORMONES!!!

Our body is always sending us signs and signals to what food works for us and what food doesn't.

Through our body's SLEEP, HUNGER, MOOD, ENERGY & CRAVINGS (or what I like to call SHMEC) you can read these signs when they are in balance, then all is working in perfect order in your SHMEC so you are eating right. When we eat wrong, then our SHMEC is definitely out of whack and unbalanced.

Working directly with someone professional who can help you target your calorie, protein, carbs and fat goals is essential. You will learn how to eat well to hit your targets and achieve your health goals. At the same time you are more likely to keep up a long term healthy lifestyle change in the process as a healthy balanced nutrition plan will become part of your daily routine. So it is a good long term investment in your health and to cut down your visceral fat.

2. INCREASE ACTIVITY AND THE AMOUNT OF EXERCISE IN YOUR WEEK.

Increasing your activity on a daily basis really helps such as introducing a daily walk, taking the stares instead of the lift, parking further away from the office or shops, playing games with your kids that involve more exercising.

Or turn to professional help by working directly with a trainer at a studio or gym or by attending group classes to feel part of t team and have fun and meet new people.

You can also find an exercise buddy with a friend or family member, that way you are both accounted for when it comes to exercising and less likely to back out or make up an excuse not to go. It is also a great way to catch up as you won't even see the time go buy once you are doing it together, rather than doing it alone.

Practicing Rest Based training by pushing yourself further in distance, speed or repetitions or increasing the intensity a little, to get a little out of your comfort zone, whilst still taking that rest when you need to in order to keep your STRESS hormone Cortisol down (this is a fat storing hormone), is also a great way to keep challenging the body to get results. Your body very easily gets use to the same routine, route of your walk or exercise program at your home or gym, thus it doesn't tackle your stubborn areas, your visceral fat or make much of a difference when you look at yourself in the mirror.

So once the body gets stronger you have to keep challenging it in new ways to keep seeing results whilst keeping that hormonal balance in check. Too far High Intensity exercise, may raise your stress hormone thus keeping you in a fat storing mode. It's like the old saying goes by Henry Ford ''If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.'' So be sure to include variety, rest based workouts and shake things up a little every few weeks.

3. STAY MOTIVATED AND ON TRACK

Staying motivated for some people can be harder, so it's important that you enjoy what you do and who you work with to keep your motivation up to keep going.

We are not all made up of the same genetic make up, so not every workout or diet plan is going to suit the same group of people.

There are so many different exercise activities, classes, trainers, studios and gyms to chose from, so keep looking to find what gives you a kick and something you enjoy and look forward to do. That is best way to stay motivated, as once you find what you enjoy and you begin to see results, it all falls into place.

4. PRACTICE HEALTHY LIVING HABITS.

Once it all falls into place, keeping up your healthy regime on a daily basis by healthy living habits, plus incorporating a good balance, then life becomes a lot easier. Make it a priority in your life, put it down in your schedule and don't miss it, the way you wouldn't miss a doctor's appointment or work meeting. Your health is your greatest wealth. So is your mental health!

Practicing healthy living habits will control your weight, improve your mood, increase your energy, increase your confidence, keep your metabolism running smoothly, keeps diseases at bay and help you live a longer life.

Stop and think how great it will be to have all this, and YOU CAN, but it is up to you to GET STARTED!

Take it one day at a time and one step at a time, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you go, but as long as you get there. There is no point in putting it off till later, as the time passes anyway. Forget the excuses and just take your next step to get it done.

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