Ways to Lose Weight on Your Hips & Stomach

For many people, the most difficult part of weight loss occurs when trying to shed fat and slim down their stomachs and hips. People try endlessly to get flat abdominals, and women are constantly doing side crunches to slim down their hips. The problem is not just them doing the wrong exercise, but consuming the wrong nutrition as well. The saying goes that when you eat something bad, it goes straight to your hips, and in a sense it can. Modifying your diet and improving your exercise routine will help you lose weight on both your hips and stomach.

Diet

• Consuming the proper diet is the best way for someone to lose weight in her midsection. When switching your diet to lose weight, it is important to know that you do not necessarily need to eat less food, rather eat better foods and change the amount of food you eat per meal. The best diet plan for someone attempting to lose weight is to eat foods that are high in nutrition and low in preservatives--foods that are mostly natural, like fruits and vegetables as well as grains. Once you have changed your diet to these foods, the next step is to change the amount of meals you eat per day. Instead of eating three large meals each day, try to eat five to six smaller meals each day. This keeps your energy higher and makes it so that your body does not need to store the extra fat in your hips and stomach when it does not need it. If the fat is stored in these areas for too long without exercise, it will remain as fat.
  

Exercise

• Once you have begun the proper diet, the next step is to burn the excess calories that you have taken in. A mixture of cardiovascular exercise and abdominal exercise will help you burn fat in your midsection. For cardiovascular work, running is very good for your abdominals and your hips. Both long-distance running and short-distance sprints are helpful. Do other exercises like riding a bike as well as using an elliptical. Anything that sheds large amounts of calories and gives you a good sweat will help you lose weight in your midsection.
  Another good way to lose weight is to do abdominal work. Exercises like crunches and sit-ups are good, however, doing these exercises on a decline bench or a stability ball will make the exercise more difficult and help you lose weight faster. Alternative abdominal exercises include leg lifts, planks and side planks, scissor kicks and bicycle kicks. It is important that you do not only do abdominal work when exercising. Working on your upper and lower body as well will increase your midsection. Find a good way to incorporate abdominal exercises into your regular routine.