Lose Belly Fat Without Doing Sit Ups By Cindie Thomas

Sit Ups Won't Burn Off Your Belly Fat
Doing sit ups may help you add some muscle to your midsection and they may also help you to improve your stamina but they will have very little effect on the amount of fat you have covering your belly.
Neither Will Any Other Abdominal Exercises
Similarly any other ab exercises you may have heard about will have little effect on the amount of stomach fat you have. And this goes for all of those ab exerciser machines you've seen advertised on television too!
Why Not?
Ab exercises have little effect on the fat covering your midsection because it's not possible to pinpoint fat with exercise. If you are someone that holds their excess fat in their stomach region then the reason for that is your genetics, not that you don't do enough ab exercises.
So What Can You Do?
The real keys to losing belly fat are starting a metabolism boosting diet and starting a weight lifting regimen. Doing these two things will help your body to burn more calories which will help you to lower your body fat percentage until that excess stomach fat has no choice but to melt off your body.
Metabolism Boosting Diet
Instead of starting a low calorie or low fat diet you should start a diet which boosts your metabolism so that you continue burning fat. The great thing is that the best way to do this is by starting a diet which includes a regular "day off" from dieting because that "day off" makes your body think it's getting too many calories which keeps your "fat burning gene" turned on. And it should be quite obvious to you why having a "day off" from dieting would be a good thing! It makes it much easier to stick with your diet.
Weight Lifting Regimen?
It's important to include muscle building as a part of your long term fitness plan because each pound of muscle you add to your body burns an extra 50 calories a day even if you are totally at rest. You can see that if you add 10 pounds of muscle to your body that you will burn an additional 500 calories a day! This makes it much easier to burn off fat and (just as importantly) to keep that fat off for good.
By Cindie Thomas