Losing Bottom Belly Fat By Getting Healthy First

How to Lose Bottom Belly Fat the Right Way

If you want to know how to lose bottom belly fat, you have to rethink what you know about losing weight.  Most people see losing weight and diets entirely wrong.  Many believe that by losing weight, we are “getting healthy”.  In addition, many think that losing pounds or weight means a diet or exercise program works.  Lastly, we believe that in order for a diet to work, it must restrict our caloric intake until we are essentially starvings ourselves thin.

Everything above is completely wrong.  Low-calorie, low fat diets don’t work.  First, the body’s metabolism will slow down to adjust for lower caloric intake.  This sets you up for the great weight loss “yo-yo”.  Basically, by reducing your metabolic rate by starving yourself, it makes it that much easier to gain the weight back.  Dieting the wrong way just slows your metabolism and any weight loss will stall after only a few weeks.

Getting Healthy is Best Way to Burn Belly Fat and Keep It Off

Trying to lose weight the wrong way often leads to sacrificing muscle mass in your legs and butt.  Seriously, you can be “losing weight” on a diet but if that weight loss is in the form of lean muscle mass, then you’re setting yourself up for failure.  Eventually, the loss of muscle means you are burning fewer calories at rest.  So, when your metabolism does slow, the weight will come back on even faster than before!

Getting healthy is how to lose bottom belly fat the right way.  So, you have to make a very conscious decision about how you want to get your energy.

1. Do you want to get your energy from sugar/carbs or fat?

Getting your energy from carbs/sugar is a big part of why so many struggle with weight.  Using sugar for energy is actually what leads to excess energy being stored as fat.  Plus, it can lead to a host of long term health problems including heart disease, diabetes, and some forms of cancer.

Getting your energy from fats is much cleaner and less dangerous for your long term health.  In fact, it’s the key to losing all the belly fat.

Food is meant to nourish you and supply your energy needs, not get stored as fat.  So if you want to get healthy and see the fat come off naturally and permanently, then you have to rethink what you put in your body and why.

Ultimately, you want to include nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, amino acids and healthy fats like fatty acida.

Fat Is Not Your Enemy

Whether you get your energy from sugar or fat determines how you are repairing and feeding your body at the cellular level.  By consuming healthy fats, you are giving your cells the vitamins and minerals that help support healthy metabolic hormone function.  Amino acids, the ones the body needs, are found in fat, not sugar.

Refined sugar kills.  Unfortunately, sugar creeps into almost every food we secretly love.  If not refined sugar, then carbs like white breads, flour (many of favorite fried foods) are proving the body with glucose for fuel.

The Real Enemy is Glucose

If you want to know how to lose bottom belly fat, you have to understand how it got there in the first place.  For generations now, we have been raised to believe that glucose/carbs/sugar is a primary source of energy.

Wrong.  This is a modern phenomenon and so is the level of obesity we are currently seeing in many cultures.  Actually, ketones are the primary sources of energy and the natural by-products of burning fat for energy.  For generations, this is how we survived and why most of our ancestors were relatively skinny for most of their lives.

In fact, the average skinny human being has over 70,000 calories of stored fat.  The same person will have around 1600-1800 calories of stored sugar.  The human body was never designed to store or process large quantities of sugar.

Let’s put this into true perspective:  To be healthy, your body requires about 1 teaspoon of sugar for your entire body.

Do you know how much sugar the average person consumes on any given day?  31 teaspoons of sugar per day–or 31X’s the amount needed to remain healthy.  Too much sugar for a diabetic person leads to artery, vision, kidney and nerve damage.

Making the Switch to Burning Fat Instead of Sugar

Bring down insulin levels, and the body will stop burning sugar for energy.  Instead, it will start burning fat.  So if you want to know how to lose bottom belly fat, learn how to control insulin.

Insulin determines what fuel your body will use for energy.  So, if insulin levels are too high, no fat will be burned.  Instead, the body burns sugar for fuel.  When insulin levels are low, then the body will burn fat exclusively for fuel.

In fact, insulin does six things for your body:

1.  Allows sugar into cells to be used for energy (or not)
2. Lowers excess blood sugar levels after eating
3. Stores sugar in liver and muscles
4. Converts excess sugar into fat particularly in the abdomen/belly area
5. Allows proteins/amino acids into the cell
6. Allows minerals into cells, like potassium

How Insulin Can Make Losing Bottom Belly Fat Nearly Impossible

Insulin resistance is one of the leading causes of leptin resistance (the other is inflammation and we’ll get to that in a minute).   Leptin is a vital metabolic hormone that essentially regulates food intake.

When we eat, leptin levels increase and this signals to your brain that you are satiated or full.  When you don’t eat, leptin levels decrease so your brain triggers hunger pangs to ingest food.  However, sometimes things go wrong.

Consistently high levels of insulin can block the brain’s ability to properly detect leptin.  When this occurs, your brain believes your energy reserves are depleted.  In other words, your brain thinks you are starving.

If that occurs, losing belly fat becomes nearly impossible as it causes three problems for you:

1. Your cravings increase in frequency and intensity
2. You need to eat more to feel satiated (caloric intake increases)
3. Your metabolism slows down (caloric burn decreases)

Other Causes of Leptin Dysfunction

Inflammation is another problem when it comes to your brain properly detecting leptin and regulating food intake.  Now most of us think inflammation is caused by overusing a muscle or maybe an injury.  And that’s true.

However, there is also internal inflammation that can be caused by the foods we eat.  Processed foods, trans fats (like margarine), any pastries, and beverages made with high fructose corn syrup all cause this internal inflammation.

This inflammation blocks the ability of your hypothalamus in properly detecting leptin.  This is known as leptin resistance.

Researchers now believe that leptin resistance is one of the leading causes of obesity.  Not sure if you have leptin resistance?  If you have any significant amount of belly or abdominal fat, then you have leptin resistance.

How to Lose Bottom Belly Fat if You Have Leptin Resistance

Technically, you have to reverse the leptin resistance first in order to lose the belly fat.  Otherwise, you will be fighting your own body and both overeating but not burning enough calories.

So, you need to do two main things:

1. Stop chronically elevated insulin levels by limiting meal intake/snacking to 3 X’s per day

Intermittent fasting can help here.  By this, we mean you need to restrict your food intake to a short 8-hour window each day.  Plus, absolutely no snacks or eating more than 3 meals per day as they cause insulin spikes.

2.  Reduce intake of foods that cause inflammation

Here are some of the foods you need to avoid:

1.  Refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup
2. Artificial Trans Fats (margarine, anything with partially hydrogenated oils)
3. Vegetable and Seed Oils (so fried foods)
4. Refined Carbohydrates
5. Excessive Alcohol
6. Processed Meat (bacon, sausage, brats, hot dogs, beef jerky)

Of course, you can’t fully escape processed foods.  However, you consciously try to lower your intake and eat healthier, you can reverse leptin resistance.  If you want to know how to lose bottom belly fat, limiting insulin spikes and intake of the foods listed above will work.

In addition, you really want to increase your activity levels.  Of course, this is not always easy either.  But, even going for brisk walks, gardening, and any increase in physical activity helps.

Taking the Right Supplement

Supplements that are specially formulated to reduce inflammation also can help reverse leptin resistance.  Now, the challenge is:  What supplements are formulated to reduce inflammation?

Well, there are a lot of foods that help reduce inflammation levels naturally.  So, what you want to look for are supplements formulated with any of these anti-inflammatory natural ingredients:

• Green Tea
• Chile peppers
• African Mango
• Avocado
• Any Berries (strawberries, blueberries)
• Omega-3 Fatty Acids
• Tomatoes

If you reduce inflammation, your hypothalamus can properly detect leptin and losing belly fat becomes much easier.  However, it can take some time to lower inflammation levels sufficiently enough for leptin to be properly detected again.

Getting a good night’s rest is also important and helps reduce inflammation naturally as well.  You really need about 7 hours of restful sleep each night.  Plus, getting a good night’s rest is also very important for burning fat as well.  If you don’t get enough sleep, your metabolic hormones never fully rebalance and losing weight is that much harder.

Tetrogen Reduces Inflammation and Helps Rebalance Metabolic Hormones for Long-Term, Consistent Fat Burning

The formulators at Tetrogen know how to lose bottom belly fat quickly and naturally.  Tetrogen Day and Night both have 4 active ingredients that help lower inflammation levels.  Plus, Tetrogen Day also has green tea extract which also helps reduce inflammation levels as well.  Tetrogen Night is formulated with a specially calibrated dose of melatonin to ensure you get a good night’s rest.

However, Tetrogen does take time to fully reduce inflammation levels caused by years of consuming processed foods.  It can take anywhere from 2-6 weeks to sufficiently reduce inflammation levels so the brain can properly detect leptin again.  What that happens, you will notice three very beneficial effects that make burning fat much easier:

1. Cravings reduce because the brain is now detecting leptin accurately again
2. Portion sizes reduce because you need to eat less to feel satiated
3. Energy levels increase because your metabolism is increasing so you are burning more calories at rest

Ultimately, Tetrogen helps you transition from using sugar for energy to using your fat stores.  Ultimately, Tetrogen is a tool that helps you make the healthy transition to the 80/20 rule.  That means, you can eat the foods you love in moderation 20% of the time while eating healthy the other 80% of the time.  Remember, you have to transition away from processed foods or the inflammation and weight will return.

However, when the inflammation levels are lower and your brain can properly detect leptin, burning fat is easy.  That’s because you are no longer fighting your own body.  Plus, by providing a Day and Night formula, Tetrogen is formulated to help you quickly reduce inflammation levels and rebalance your metabolic hormones, including insulin.

Concluding Thoughts

The rise of the obesity epidemic occurred as we started eating more processed foods.  Again, we can’t totally avoid them so we need to eat foods that naturally reduce inflammation levels.  Plus, using supplements that are  specially formulated to reduce inflammation levels can greatly speed up this process.

Lastly, we have to prevent excessive insulin spikes by eating no more than 3 times per day, including snacks.  Losing fat and keeping it off requires a few simple but very doable things.  Once you know what is causing the problem, adjusting your diet and activity levels is much easier.

Mike Dorfman

Mike Dorfman is BS in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado. Mike’s has worked as a personal trainer for Gold’s Gym and helped many clients achieve their weight-loss and fitness goals.

To health first, weight-loss second. Mike and Tetrogen are here to help you make the transition to the healthier, happier, and thinner you!