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To Get A Flatter Stomach Drop This One Morning Habit Now
It’s secretly adding inches of belly fat to your waistline
What I’m about to tell you is not something I haven’t told myself. I had to change my morning routine to reach my gut goals. If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and tugged at your belly fat, I’m with you because I used to do it myself morning and night.
I was trying my best to eat better, working out at home or at the gym regularly, and drinking water on a schedule. Yet my stomach just wasn’t getting any flatter.
It was frustrating.
You want a flatter stomach, right? What’s holding you back is likely something you’re doing first thing in the morning — it’s a habit that seems harmless but is actually keeping you from losing belly fat.
What’s this “harmless” habit? — It’s taking hits of sugar for breakfast.
If you’re starting your day with sugary cereal, flavored yogurt, a big ol’ fancy coffee, juice (unless you squeeze your own), or anything sweet, you’re instructing your body to store belly fat every morning. And it’s cumulative.
Natural sugar in fruit is fine. It’s added sugar in foods and table sugar that gets you.
When I found out that sugar in the morning was a big reason why my waist was growing, I switched it up. I wanted a flatter stomach.
I wait until after 12:00 noon
You might be thinking like I was, asking myself, “How bad can a little sugar at breakfast time be? I love strawberry jam with biscuits!
But then I remembered that breakfast means to break the fast that we go into overnight. So not breaking it with sugar made sense.
I usually eat in an intermittent fasting window of 16:8, fasting from 6 p.m. to 10 a.m. the next morning. So, even though I break my overnight fast at 10:00, I won’t have anything sweet until the afternoon.
