Start Losing Stomach Weight By Doing Something Really Weird

If you're ready to start losing stomach weight, here's something really radical for you.

Cheat on your diet. If you've been struggling with whole losing weight thing, especially around the stomach area, as weird as it sounds, that may be the exact key to helping you learn lifetime healthy eating habits and staying fit.

Flexibility in your meal plan can be the difference between being able to stick it out long-term and giving up for good. Sometimes a little cheat of chocolate can keep you from feeling utter desperation and deprivation.

Giving in is very different from giving up. When you give in and have a little taste of "the forbidden fruit", you're not giving up on your diet plan - you're being flexible. Does this mean you can give in all the time and take in as many calories as you feel like eating?

Not if you want to start losing that stomach weight. But successful dieters know the importance of having a little leeway to live life according to their own needs, and sometimes that includes something off limits.

For fun you can actually make this a reward for sticking it out and being disciplined.

It may not always be a psychological craving, either. Your body will alert you to deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals. If you're dieting, your body may be lacking certain nutrients and making you crave foods is the only way it knows to get those nutrients back in its system.

Even if it's not a biological craving, giving in can also alleviate the tension you may feel about being on a diet in the first place. It's better to just vow to eat healthier and be fit, but in reality, fitness and weight loss plans are billed as "diets" and it instinctively gives us a negative connotation because we assume it means giving up our favorite food.

You don't have to feel disgust and shame in your decisions if you know ahead of time that it's okay. Most diet plans don't have a built in craving component. They simply say everything good is gone forever, so you may have to make some exceptions and tailor your plan on your own.

Your body will clue you in to the fact that it's in need of something you're not giving it. Sometimes it may be carbs, and even if you're on a no-carb diet, you have to make the decision as to whether or not you'll address your body's needs and give yourself permission to cheat - just a little.

Lots of training and working out may not yield much improvement in your belly fat loss either. Instead, you would be better off to select exercises that are so challenging that you're only able to do about fifteen or twenty repetitions in any given workout.

Too many people believe you need to starve yourself and sweat at the gym daily to stay in shape.

And that's not true. Of course exercise and eating right is important, but you don't need to go overboard and deny your body the nutrition it so desperately needs.

Moderation is the key. As long as you stick to your long term plan to losing stomach weight, you're well on your way.

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