Q: belly wieght loss

A: Unfortunately there is no way to just lose the belly fat without worry about the rest of the fat on your body. Your body builds and loses fat all over, instead of just in one place. So in order to lose belly fat, you will need to lower your overall fat level. The most effective way to do so is combine intense weight training with a fat-burning diet and supplement with light or moderate cardio.

Read my Nutrition article to learn how to develop a fat-burning diet for yourself. In the article you will find a calculator that you can use to get a rough estimate of how many meals and how many calories you should be eating. You will also find a sample fat-burning diet of around 1900 calories -- you can use it as the base diet and adjust the calories in it up or down depending on the calculator's suggestion. Feel free to substitute different types of lean meat or poultry or fish for one another, and also different leafy vegetables for one another. But avoid things like fatty meats, fried foods, bread, pasta, white rice, potatoes, corn, sweets, junk food, dairy (except cottage cheese), alcohol. All of this is also described in the article.

Don't jump into this new diet overnight -- instead ease into it over a week's time. From then on aim for weight loss of about one pound per week (first week you may lose more than that). If you're losing weight faster than that, bump your calories up a little. If you're losing weight slower than that (or not losing at all), lower the calories a bit. Weigh yourself every morning on an empty stomach to keep track of your weight progress. And don't try to lose weight too fast -- slow and steady definitely wins the race here!

Then read my Weightlifting article to learn how to lift weights to maximize fat loss. In the article I give several sample programs to follow. A good one for you would be the 4-day split program from the article.

Finally you can do a bit of cardio (jogging or running) along with the diet and weightlifting. Do 20-30 minute cardio sessions 2 or 3 times per week and don't push yourself to exhaustion. Cardio is not going to be the main thing to help you lose the weight and keep it off -- diet and weightlifting will do that. Cardio is just plain good for you and it will contribute a little to fat-burning. But again, do NOT go crazy on cardio -- instead, focus on a good diet and weight lifting.

Some of these ideas may seem strange to you, but give them a chance. After 3-4 months you will notice dramatic changes and in one year you will be a completely different person. If you ever get stuck and stop making progress, come back here and ask me what to do. Good luck!