It’s the first day of the plan. I’m going to lose belly fat and I’m going to get six-pack abs. I’m not ready yet to start on my abdominals exercises, but to start the day right, I certainly need to start with the six-pack abs diet.
While I certainly need to burn that “stubborn belly fat,” as the commercials remind me, too frequently, I also need to thing about the rest of my body as well. If it’s true that the truck tire hanging around my mid-section is the most difficult to remove, then what works for it should work for the excess weight elsewhere as well.
As I stare into a mirror, I realize that the tractor tire is a bulk of my weight problem. It will take months of strict attention to diet to rid myself of those inches. But at the same time, I want to be building flat abdominals, toned abdominals, lean abdominals. (Yes, I’ll be using positive, reinforcing self talk. Attitude is so much of the battle.)
While just about anything I do to reduce my intake of “bad” foods should be helpful, there are two things to consider: I need a better understanding of what “bad” foods are and aren’t and I need a plan that I will like enough to keep on it for the duration. In other words, “diet” is not just a temporary aberration from my normal course of action, but a complete and permanent lifestyle change. (That change, however, will be in stages as I lose weight and as my life activities are altered, especially as I age.)
Enough about that. What’s for breakfast?
Fortunately, I like oatmeal. Plain, unadulterated oatmeal. Doesn’t need sweetener, milk, raisins, spices or whatnot. Just regular (not quick) oats, a cupful of them, microwaved for about a minute. At some point in the future, as eating at home frees up funds (more about that later), I’ll buy a simple hand-crank unit that will turn fresh oats into flakes. A friend who does that says the taste gets even better.
I’ll follow that up later with an apple, maybe two, this morning as my stomach requests more sustenance, though a cup of solid oatmeal lasts a long time. To drink: water. There’s only whole milk in the fridge and later I’ll write about why that’s not the best choice for weight loss. Hint: It has nothing to do with the milk fat contant. Today I’ll purchase a gallon of skim, which is best for losing belly fat. I like it just fine, but my family doesn’t. So we’ll have a two-milk refrigerator.
Water and tea offer greatest benefits
So today is a water day as far as fluids go. Some of that water will have tea in it; since it’s heading toward winter, it will be hot tea. Lots of advantages to that, as well, with more details to come.
Since it’s a Saturday, I have lots of time for study, so I’ll go to work on what I’m going to be doing as an appropriate exercise to start losing belly fat and developing six-pack abs.
If you want to investigate the same material I’m studying, read The Truth About Abs by Mike Geary.
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