10 Rules to Lose 10 Pounds and Cut Belly Fat

Jennifer Jolan asked:


Here are 10 simple rules to lose 10 pounds and cut belly fat in 2-3 weeks.

1. Eat a big breakfast with protein and fiber.

This helps you to start the day right so that you don’t have to play calorie catch-up later in the day using high calorie convenience foods.

2. Start each meal by eating a fruit such as an apple, grapes, or a grapefruit.

This helps to fill you up before you eat your meal… a meal which is more likely to have higher calorie, bad foods.

3. Eat beef jerky or string cheese for snacks.

These are some good protein snacks. Much better than carbohydrate snacks with simple sugars in them.

4. Take fish oil pills.

The healthy omega 3 fats in fish oil help with long term weight loss. Ideally, you take 6-10 grams each day with a meal.

5. Take a cold shower.

Or if you can’t do that, just rinse your body with really cold water for 15 seconds after your normal shower. This causes your body to slightly raise it’s internal core temperature. When that happens, the elevated body temperature becomes a more hostile environment for fat cells. Fat doesn’t like heat.

6. Eat 3 apples a day.

Kinda similar to another rule, but apples are incredibly powerful for weight loss due to their high water content, low calories, and high fiber. Using this rule alone would probably help you to lose 2 pounds a month without changing anything else.

7. Use a hula hoop at home.

Yep, the good ol’ hula hoop is actually a pretty good weight loss tool… works great for toning your hips and waist. Do it for 5 minutes a day.

8. Do high intensity interval training (HIIT) at the gym.

This is different from typical jogging on the treadmill. You’ll want to do whatever cardio exercise really intense for 10-15 seconds and follow it with 20-30 seconds of going slow. Keep repeating that and you’ll get an “afterburn” effect. That means you burn calories at a higher rate even after you’re done.

9. Eat 1 can of black beans everyday.

I consider black beans a super food. High in protein and fiber. Each 15 ounce can has 25 grams of protein and 25 grams of fiber. For just 48 cents at Wal-Mart, that’s quite good… especially considering the rapidly rising prices for most other foods these days!

10. Cheat

Hey, if you’re on a strict diet, if you don’t cheat you may “down-regulate” your metabolism. What that means is you will slow it down and burn less calories than you normally would. You avoid that by cheating once a week. The cheating helps to spike up your calories for 1 day which actually boosts your metabolism. Just don’t think eating a lot of calories everyday will do the same thing. It won’t.

So there you have it… 10 rules to lose 10 pounds and cut belly fat.