June 27th, 2009 by Astri

You want to have a beautiful belly? And how do you fight to get flat stomach? Crunches? Sit up? How often do you exercise is, will not produce results if you’re eating patterns not right. Latest research shows that consumption of food as important as how many exercises that you do. Lifestyle is also determined, because the stress is not only the content you create a disordered, but also can make the belly bulge. But do not worry, you can make your stomach flat and slim with 5 steps like below:

1. Eat Less at Night

After working hard all day, you feel tired, bored, tense and you want to relaxed with food. Dinner often be problematic for women. This is more often connected with stress or emotional problems. But unconsciously, consume too much food at night and the next night, make the increase in your body weight that was changeable, so fixed. There are 2 benefits that can be acquired simultaneously if you do not consume too much food at night, you wake up sleeping with a flat stomach, and you have the appetite is better in the morning. If you have the dinner because feel hungry or fulfill the invitation, you can choose fruits, vegetables and other foods the low fat, calories, and salt.

2. Consumption of Many Fiber

Avoid foods high carbohydrate diet but empty as fast food, snack from flour, cake and candy. Because the foods containing much carbohydrate and sodium, but less fiber and nutrition. Make sure you get feed enough calories from complex carbohydrates, low fat protein, and good fat. If you do not get enough calories, your body metabolism will decrease.

3. Drink Lot of Water

Although water is often considered to cause flatulence, drinking more water can flush sodium from the body, and reduce flatulence. Drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day. The best option is a drink that contains few calories, caffeine, and sodium. You can drink herbal tea. You may need adequate water when eating watery foods such as fruits, vegetables, or vegetable sauce. Avoid drinks containing carbon dioxide, this is easier to make flatulence as carbon dioxide in the soda foam is produced gas.

4. Arrange Feed Salt

Choose food that fresh and natural. Salt may have a bad reputation, but he also plays an important role in managing the body fluids and blood pressure, muscle function, nerve transmission, and absorption of essential nutrients. But also the excess salt is not good for your body, can cause flatulence and increased blood pressure. Avoid the salt consumption of more than 2400 mg, or about one teaspoon of salt per day. This amount can cover the needs of minerals, although you have many activities.

5. Reduce Stress

Stress can trigger hormones of cortisol that cause appetite and resulted in a pile of fat in the organs around your stomach. If this happens can cause many diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. To reduce the appetite-related stress, you can do exercises cardiovascular. When you feel stress increasing, take some time to draw in the breath-in. You can also try it with a relaxation technique that is easily done at any time.