Top #30 Greatest Ways 2 Lose Belly Fat ~ #1 "Cortisol"

Top #30 Greatest Ways To Lose Belly Fat..

#1 Cortisol

Our stomach area ranks among one of the top body parts that both men and women want to slim down. Not all of us want a rock hard wash board stomach or even have the will power or discipline to keep our stomach in that type of condition all the time. Most are able to shed the belly fat and work on their ab muscles to make a difference. There are both hard and easy ways to shed that stubborn belly fat around our mid-section.  There is no such thing as spot reducing a specific area to loose fat, but you do need to exercise your stomach to make it easier to loose fat from that specific area. Overall exercise and doing fat burning cardio will make your stomach area smaller as well as your entire body. There might be things that you're doing in your everyday life that are hindering you from loosing belly fat your stomach area. If you're exercising and doing cardio along with specific ab exercises and your still finding little or no change then we know your diet is the culprit in this case.

#1 Keep this belly fat hormone low "Cortisol"

Cortisol is a fat storage hormone that is released by the body in response to stress in your life. Cortisol isn't a bad hormone as it does have it's specific job to do for our bodies. However, cortisol increases appetite, sugar cravings, causes general weight gain and increases belly fat in stressed individuals.  While cortisol is an important and helpful part of the body’s response to stress, it’s important that the body’s relaxation responses to be activated so the body’s functions can return to normal following a stressful event. Unfortunately, in our current high-stress culture and life situations these days the body’s stress response is activated so often that the body doesn’t always have a chance to return to normal, resulting in a state of chronic stress. This is what causes that awful dreaded belly fat around our mid-section.

Normally, Cortisol is most present in the body at higher levels in the morning, and at its lowest at night. Although stress isn’t the only reason that cortisol is secreted into the bloodstream, it has been termed “the stress hormone” because it’s also secreted in higher levels during the body’s ‘fight or flight’ response to stress, and is responsible for several stress-related changes in the body. Small increases of cortisol have some positive effects:

1. A quick burst of energy for survival reasons

2. Heightened memory functions

3. A burst of increased immunity

4. Lower sensitivity to pain

5. Helps maintain homeostasis in the body

To keep the cortisol levels healthy and under control, the body’s relaxation response should be activated after the fight or flight response occurs. You can learn to relax your body with various stress management techniques, and you can make lifestyle changes in order to keep your body from reacting to stress in the first place. We are all different and will react differently to life's stressful situations. It's true that people with higher levels of cortisol in response to stress also tend to eat more food, and will eat food that is higher in carbohydrates which causes more belly fat. 

It's so important for us to listen and pay attention to our body and know when we are reacting to higher stress levels. If we do this we can do specific things to lower the cortisol levels in our bodies to a healthy level. This will prevent the dreaded fat storage that seems to happen when we just cannot get our stress level under control. Learn to know when this is happening and take daily steps to make time for some of the relaxing techniques. Keep your cortisol levels in check with some relaxing techniques and stress releasing that will keep your mid-section slim and beautiful. If your not sure what relaxing techniques to start doing? Try some of the ones I listed below and maybe from there you can find some good ones of your own that will work for you. "Relax" Chill and make that belly slim, fit and healthy!

1. Journaling

2. Exercise

3. Yoga

4. Listening to Music

5. Breathing Exercises

6. Sex

7. Meditation

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