Dr. Michael Mosley is behind the Fast 800, New 5: 2, Way of Life diet and has helped thousands of people lose weight and become healthy. Experts are keen to break the myth of weight loss, and in a previous article on his website about visceral fat, more commonly called tummy fat, and why you need to worry about it. talked. Dr. Michael also shared his tips on how to lose weight around your center.
What is visceral fat?
Visceral fat, also known as “hidden” fat, is fat that accumulates deep in the abdomen and wraps around organs such as the liver and intestines.
It makes up about one-tenth of all the fat stored in the body.
Most fat is stored under the skin and is known as subcutaneous fat.
How can I manage visceral fat?
Dr. Michael said: “Fortunately, every time you lose weight, you lose the amount of visceral fat in your body.
“In other words, the best way to lose visceral fat is to lose weight.”
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Along with improving your diet, exercise is “one of the best ways to attack visceral fat.”
Dr. Michael is an advocate of high-intensity interval training, also known as HITT, suggesting that “especially targeting visceral fat.”
HIIT is also very time efficient as it only takes 20-30 minutes to train.
According to burned-calories.com, a 30-minute HIIT can burn about 290 calories.
Mindfulness is another way to help you lose weight.
Many people look to food not only to satisfy their physical hunger, but also to comfort, relieve stress, or reward themselves.
In this case, junk food, sweets and other pleasant but unhealthy foods are consumed.
One way Dr. Michael suggests to counter this is to pay attention.
Reducing stress levels can help you lose weight. This is because if you are less stressed or if you are in control of your emotions, you are less likely to have a snack.
Snacks can add somewhere between 200 and 500 calories a day to your diet.
“We spend 10 minutes a day practicing careful meditation,” said Dr. Michael.
“I think sitting in a quiet space for 10 minutes in the morning and trying to focus on breathing is enough to calm down.”
