Products for a flat stomach: what prevents you from becoming slimmer

Everyone who has ever attempted to slim down their waist knows this feeling of disappointment or even despair. Even the most strict diets and  intense workouts do not  help to remove the stomach and  make it "model-like" flat.

But maybe it's your diet that's causing the failure, and your only diet healthy menu includes foods for a flat tummy that aren actually not? Let's find out.

• "Deceptive" products for a flat stomach: looking for and finding the guilty
• Other reasons for the lack of results when losing weight

"Deceptive" products for a flat stomach: looking for and finding the guilty

First of all, when starting a diet, it is useful to keep a food diary, in which you will record everything you drank and ate during the day. This will allow you to analyze your diet and understand which foods in it are undesirable.

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But if the extra grams or kilograms refuse to leave exactly the abdominal area or the stomach looks unusually large, the reason may lie in such food products:

• Legumes. Peas, lentils, beans, beans, and other edible legumes — a very valuable food product that helps regulate lipid metabolism and prevents the deposition of cholesterol on the walls of blood vessels. But if you include beans in your diet every day, they can negatively affect your bowel work. By increasing gas production, the beans increase the volume of the intestines, which leads to a visual increase in the abdomen.

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• Cabbage. Another diet food that can make your belly even bigger than it was before the diet. The reason for this — coarse fiber and a large amount of sugars — a combination that provokes fermentation in the intestines and, just like legumes, an increase in the volume of the abdomen. True, this only applies to raw cabbage — boiled, stewed or otherwise prepared, you can eat without fear.

• Foods high in starch.

  This category includes potatoes, rice and bananas, which are recommended in a number of dietary systems. The content of starch in them significantly slows down the metabolism in general and, in particular, the breakdown of fats.

• Fruits.

  Although fruits seem like the best alternative to sweets when dieting and are on the healthy food list, many of them are high in sugar. Grapes, sweet pears and apples and even watermelons and melons — the first "suspects" the  that the fat from  the belly leaves more slowly than you would like .

The foods listed should not completely be excluded from  — — each of them has a high nutritional value and helps to meet the body's needs for certain substances. But it will be useful to analyze if too there are too many such products in your menu (compared to other food components) and if the answer is yes —      we need to reduce their number to reasonable.

But besides foods that prevent you from making your stomach flat, there are several other circumstances that make it difficult to lose weight in the abdomen.

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If you are confident that you are following all the principles of a healthy diet, and calorie intake is lower than expenditure, the reason that the stomach does go away should be sought in other factors.

• A large amount of visceral fat.

  This condition is often observed in metabolic syndrome and metabolic disorders, as a result of which more than necessary, the amount of fat is deposited on the internal organs.

• Too much liquid.

  Drinking plenty — an important component of weight loss. But the excess liquid that you drink in the form of water, teas, juices, and other drinks will lead to accumulation in soft tissues and, as a result, an increase in the size of the abdomen.

• Not enough food.

  You can maintain your caloric content carefully, but if you eat very little food, so-called "hunger constipation" — a condition in which the contents of the intestine are not enough to activate peristalsis. The accumulation of feces very quickly leads to the appearance of the abdomen.

Follow us on Telegram Hopefully this is a small "investigation" will help you determine the reason why your belly is not yielding to diet and exercise, and eliminate it in the most convenient way for you.

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