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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

How to Flatten Your Belly (FOR GOOD)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about how to flatten your belly fast. Crunches are not the secret to six-pack abs. To get flat abs and avoid poor posture or back pain at the same time, you need to balance exercises like crunches with other types of exercise, like back exercises. Two of the best types of exercises for belly fat are long walks or hikes and high-intensity interval training (HIIT). While exercise is important, diet is more critical when it comes to losing belly fat. The best fat-burning diet is the Healthy Keto® diet. This is a combination of high-quality protein, low-starch vegetables, and other nutrient-dense, low-carb foods. Intermittent fasting is also beneficial to help you lose weight and get healthy. You may want to add more fat to your diet initially to help you fast for longer periods. But, once you become adapted and start losing fat, you may want to cut back the fat you consume. You can take certain remedies for fat-burning, but realize these won't work unless you also change your diet. A few of the best fat-burning supplements include: • Garcinia Cambogia • Raspberry ketones • Green tea extract • Caffeine • Chili pepper extract In some cases, you might mistake bloating for belly fat. Intermittent fasting can help decrease bloating. Bloating could mean you also need more acid in your stomach. Betaine hydrochloride is the best remedy for bloating caused by a lack of stomach acid. A lack of bile can also create bloating. In this case, you could try taking bile salts. Top foods that cause bloating include: • Fruit • Yogurt • Beans • Grains • Almond flour • Sugar alcohols • Tapioca fiber • Soluble corn fiber • Plant-based green shakes or protein shakes If you have IBS or an inflammatory condition in your gut, you may want to try the carnivore diet for a little while to see if that helps reduce bloating. To flatten your stomach fast, you also need to lower your stress. Walking, physical work, and getting plenty of sleep are great ways to reduce stress. If you’re going into menopause, it’s also essential to support your adrenal glands to help avoid stubborn belly fat down the road.

Transcript

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0:00.0

in this video, we're going to talk about how to flatten your belly in the fastest time possible.

0:04.8

And you do see these videos out there that, hey, you just need to drink this one thing or take

0:08.0

this one pill before bed and you'll wake up with a flat stomach. Well, that may only be true if

0:13.7

that belly is really just coming from bloating. And the other very common question is how many

0:20.2

setups do I have to do? How many crunches do I have to do to achieve a six pack ab? First of all,

0:26.1

what is your abs? Well, we're talking about mainly a muscle called the rectus abdominis.

0:32.4

And it's not just one muscle. It's a series of little packets of muscle, aka six pack abs.

0:40.8

Crunches might make them stronger and slightly bigger, but that's not the answer for a six pack

0:46.9

ab. And when we deal with this rectus abdominis muscle, that muscle is mainly there to keep the

0:54.6

inside your guts from coming out. It's there to stabilize your torso or what they call the

1:00.4

core, which is your entire midsection, not just your front part, but your back as well. And so if

1:06.6

you're going to do crunches and you just really focus on that all the time and you don't at the

1:10.8

same time balance it by working out your back muscles, you are going to develop either poor posture

1:16.2

or back pain. So crunches are good as long as you balance them out with other types of things,

1:22.5

but don't expect to flatten your stomach by doing crunches. It's not the right thing to do.

1:27.5

I mean, you want to do some, but it's not the thing that's going to make the big difference.

1:31.1

And there's two different types of fat related to your midsection. You have the superficial fat,

1:36.7

which is called the subcutaneous. It's right below the skin. And then you have the deeper

1:42.7

visceral fat that's the fat around the organs underneath it that presses it out. So right now,

1:48.0

if you were just to relax your stomach, and if it extended outward, that would be more visceral fat,

1:53.9

which is the fat that's spilling over from the liver. Now, the superficial fat can be best addressed

2:01.2

with diet and a certain type of exercise, which basically is aerobic or long walks or hike.

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