Health and Lifestyle
Here’s How to Melt Unwanted Belly Fat and Prevent Obesity Smartly.
A four-pronged and holistic approach to losing visceral fat sustainably with lifestyle habits for a healthy life
How to Stop Unnecessary Suffering
I have a personal goal to contribute to eradicating the obesity epidemic with my humble capabilities, as it causes unnecessary suffering for millions of people.
Despite multiple factors, a significant cause of obesity is related to our lifestyle choices and behavior.
In my opinion, even though fat loss looks like physical activity, it has a lot to do with the brain, feelings, hormones, neurotransmitters, mental state, mindset, emotional intelligence, social connections, and spiritual well-being.
In this post, I touch on the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of our lives for fat burning giving a few insights from my perspectives and experience.
Even though my perspectives may sound philosophical and theoretical, they are practical matters boiling down to healthy lifestyle habits.
Fat loss is not rocket science, but we over-complicate it by counting calories diligently, over-exercising, or ignoring fundamental human needs. Thus, convoluted perspectives bother us and unnecessarily increase our stress.
Yet, paradoxically, losing visceral fat becomes even more challenging when stress accumulates as stress hormones like cortisol prevent fat-burning.
A viable solution appears to be an integrated approach to fat loss from my observations, reviews, and experience.
While the physical aspect is vital, emotional, hormonal, social, and spiritual foundations also play a critical role in maintaining a healthy metabolism for health, fitness, and well-being.
In a practical sense, rewiring our brain via the neuroplasticity capability is one of the best approaches from my experience.
Cognitive flexibility can improve both mental and physical health. In the end, we are habitual creators.
Therefore, our habits determine our success in every walk of life, including health and fitness. Here is the four-pronged approach that covers multiple layers of our being.
1 — Physical Flexibility, Agility, and Resilience
I start with physical health, as our bodies determine our existence in this life. Having a flexible and resilient body is essential for sustainable health and well-being.
For example, achieving a fat-adapted state with insulin sensitivity can make fat-burning easier and more efficient as our metabolic flexibility makes us more resilient.
The body has essential requirements to stay flexible, agile, and resilient. Nutrition, movement, sleep, rest, and fun are non-negotiable needs of the body.
When we refurbish our nutrition, exercise, sleep, and recreational habits by establishing new lifestyle options matching our biology, our bodies naturally burn fat as an energy source preventing us from abdominal obesity.
As I penned numerous articles about tapping into belly fat with lifestyle changes, I will not repeat them in this short post. Instead, I link seven previous articles that can provide details with examples.
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline
2 — Hormonal Balance and Optimization
As I mentioned before, hormones play a critical role in our physical and mental health.
In addition, our bodies produce many intricate and interdependent hormones and neurotransmitters for survival and adapting to the environment.
We can balance and optimize our hormones by rewiring our behavioral patterns for new lifestyle habits.
I introduced six major hormones that significantly impact fat metabolism and healthy weight management in an article titled Losing Fat by Understanding the Intricacies of Six Major Hormones.
Hormones are like the proverbial iceberg in the fat loss and weight management process. When we balance our hormones and optimize them, we substantially increase the chance of burning fat as an energy source.
3 — Emotional Stability and Capability
Emotions are critical messages showing us what is happening inside and outside of the body, affecting our homeostasis.
Understanding, acknowledging, and addressing the needs of these emotions are critical for our health and well-being.
A meaningful expression of emotions can be powerful for our physical and mental health. Conversely, repressed emotions cause cumulative stress leading to serious health situations.
Physical healing starts with acceptance and expression of emotions genuinely. Regulating our emotions is essential.
Dealing with emotions is vital because they can increase our stress if emotions are not managed well. Cumulative stress is a known culprit for fat accumulation and associated health conditions such as obesity. We can improve our emotional capability by rewiring our behavioral habits.
4 — Social and Spiritual Connections
We are not just physical beings. We also have emotional, social, and spiritual entities making us human. So even though we are autonomous individuals, we are also connected with invisible links.
Awareness of those links can give us valuable insights into the internal and external world.
When we neglect our social and spiritual aspects, we lose the meaning of life. Body and mind are inseparably connected. Our social and spiritual well-being directly or indirectly affects our physical and mental health.
We can improve our social and spiritual intelligence by rewiring patterns to establish well-serving habits.
Meaningful and mindful connections with others can enhance empathy and compassion for others, improving our self-love, self-compassion, and self-esteem.
These psychological, social, and spiritual constructs are critical capabilities allowing us to care about our physical and mental health.
When we fail to connect with others meaningfully, we may get stressed, overeat, lose sleep, neglect exercise, and deprive ourselves of having fun.
These fundamentals are underlying risk factors for fat accumulation.
Conclusions and Takeaways
Health is not just a physical phenomenon.
We are multidimensional creatures integrated with consciousness, emotions, hormones, and neurotransmitters affected by internal and external sources.
More precisely, our physical body is connected to the outer world with invisible links. Thus, our cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual intelligence is critical to staying healthy, fit, and happy.
These capabilities can delay aging and contribute to preventing undesirable health situations.
A well-functioning metabolism is vital for a healthy body and brain. The accumulation of visceral fat indicates imbalances in our physical, emotional, hormonal, social, and spiritual aspects.
We can burn fat naturally when we become aware of all layers, balance the forces, and design our lifestyle accordingly.
The key enabler to building new habits is to use the neuro-plasticity capability of our brains and rewire neuro-circuits with increased BDNF for habitual practices serving our needs.
Based on behavioral studies, creating a new pattern in the brain takes times ranging from two weeks to several months.
We can rewire our brains for health, happiness, and overall well-being by repeating new behavior mindfully, consistently, and persistently.
Ketosis helped me to rewire my brain.
I’d like to end my post with inspiring stories.
Here’s How a Mature-Age Couple Reversed Diabetes and Trimmed Their Bodies with Lifestyle Habits.
Here are two stories showing my hobbies and diet helping me rewire my brain daily for health and happiness.
Here are two stories showing how these people rewired their brains.
Thank you for reading my perspectives. I wish you a healthy and happy life.
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