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The Best Way to Melt Belly Fat

The Belly Melt Diet is based on eating, sleeping and exercising according to your body’s natural rhythms, so you’re keeping your hunger hormones in check, getting more energy and shrinking your waistline.

Exercise is also important, but it’s not about hammering yourself for hours on the treadmill when all you want to do is curl up on the couch. By tuning into your body’s natural rhythms, you’ll not only burn more belly fat and build more muscle, but actually have fun.

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When you identify your own body rhythms, you'll learn to tweak the "master clock" in your brain to sync your cycles more to what experts say is ideal for reaching and maintaining a healthy weight.

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Here’s a quick look at the ideal start to the day on The Belly Melt Diet:

6 to 8 am:

Get moving

Within half an hour of rising and before you eat breakfast, do 20 minutes of cardio. Research has found that exercising before breakfast may help you burn fat more efficiently. If you can get outside, even better. Early morning sunlight helps your body naturally reset itself to a healthier sleep/wake cycle.

7 to 9 am:

Eat breakfast

The alarm clock wakes up ghrelin, the ‘feed me’ hormone made in your stomach. Ignore ghrelin and your body will produce even more, eventually making you ravenous. To suppress ghrelin’s effect, eat a mix of complex carbs and protein.

10 to 11am:

Munch mid-morning

Ghrelin begins to rise again a couple of hours before lunch. It turns off when you chow down, particularly on carbs and protein, so have a small combo snack, like some blueberries and Greek yoghurt.


Read more about your hour-by-hour Belly Melt Diet schedule in the October issue of Prevention.

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