By Johnny_Wolf]Johnny Wolf

Most of the stuff you have read about fat loss and how to get that flat stomach, or six pack you always wanted, is either wrong or simply impossible to implement. Lots of it is just empty words used to fill magazines, or to help sell some product. That's not what I'm going to offer you. There is no pitch to some weight loss product at the end of this article. What I'm going to talk about works, period.

The first thing you have to understand is that... guess what? Cardio is mostly a waste of time. When you do cardio (especially if you do lots of it), your body will try to compensate by being less active the rest of the day, and being hungrier. This will make it harder for you to stick to a diet. Cardio also harms muscle growth, and muscles are your number 1 friend for fat loss. That's because they burn calories even when you are not using them. So let's start by dropping cardio from our flat tummy plan. Well actually, the first thing you have to understand is that to get rid of fat around your stomach, you have to get rid of fat overall, but you probably already knew that, didn't you? Either way, you know it now.

You still need to have a calorie deficit to burn fat. How do you do that without cardio? Well, for starters... you have to eat less. The big problem here is this: people tell you to eat every couple of hours, which in addition to being a huge pain in the ass, makes you eat very small, unsatisfying meals. They say skipping meals is a horrible sin that will make you fat... it's not. It's what you should do. It's called intermittent fasting and it works. What you do is pick a window of time during the day, from 4 to 8 hours long, during which you can eat. You only eat within this window, the rest of the day you stay in fasting. You can drink water (no sugary drinks though), but you can't actually eat stuff. Your body will adjust to this, and won't make you hungry all the time. It will learn that you eat at a specific time, and only bring the sensation of hunger at around that time. You'll need to limit your daily calories to between 1,000 and 1,500, but that is a lot easier to do when you can put all those calories in one or two big, satisfying meals.

Because at the end of the day, what really makes or breaks a fat loss regimen is not if it would technically work or not, it's if you stick to it or not.

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