Waist Fat and Insulin Resistance
Most men and women can reduce their body fat by double digits when they participate in our Truthentics MetaFix Weight Loss Coaching Program.
But eventually, they reach a point when their weight loss gets stuck It’s after that where things can get problematic.
Things get “sticky”. Fat gets all sentimental and doesn’t want to leave home.
It might be coaxed into leaving some areas but it often clings to others, and more often than not the area with which it forms a special attachment is your waist.
People blame this waist tubbiness on all kinds of things including lack of sleep, poor diet, age, gender, genetics, menopause, and even cortisol, the stress hormone. While all these things likely play a part in stubborn love handles and muffin tops, they’re largely symptomatic of a lack of insulin sensitivity.
Fortunately, there are several things you can do to fix your insulin resistance and specifically target the unsightly fat that makes you look like you’re melting over your jeans.
1 – Use These Simple Dietary Tricks to Increase Insulin Sensitivity
Without optimal insulin sensitivity, much of food you eat gets delivered to fat storage rather than muscle, and much of the time that fat happily resides around your waist. While your instinct might be to cut more calories or lower your carb intake, this often stalls your metabolism leaves your waist looking the same.
What you need to do instead is optimize insulin sensitivity. Here are several easy dietary strategies that help you do just that:
- At the start of a meal, eat some protein and fat before your flabby lips even touch any carbohydrate. This strategy, according to research, leads to significantly lower blood sugar levels (29%, 37%, and 17% lower at 30, 60, and 120 minutes after a meal) than eating carbs first.
- Use vinegar as a salad dressing as it attenuates or reduces the glucose and insulin response from your meal, in addition to raising insulin sensitivity in general. Continued use can lead to an average weight loss of two pounds in four weeks. Also consider taking two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar before bed, as studies have shown that it can lower morning blood sugar by 4 to 6 percent.
- Take Omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil. New studies show that not only does it rival the effects of exercise on blood sugar but, when combined with exercise, actually has a synergistic effect on blood sugar reduction.
2 – Diet Hard (And Differently) Two Days Per Week
In a nutshell, you eat according to the recommendations in our Truthentics MetaFix Weight Loss Coaching Program for five days out of every seven, but on the remaining two, non-consecutive days, you only eat two meals of approximately 400 calories each, 12 hours apart. These two “fasting” days should be non-exercise days so as not to interfere with post-workout recovery.
Additionally, on your two semi-fasted days, drink a simple protein shake formulation made with 1-2 scoops of a fast-acting protein powder blended with water/ice either as part of each 400-calorie meal, or 30 minutes prior to each meal.
This 5/2 Fat-Loss Strategy works because the fasting days, infrequent as they are, cause the body to become much more insulin sensitive than it would from dieting seven straight days a week. That seemingly defies logic but research shows that it works.
If followed correctly, the 5/2 Fat-Loss Strategy allows you to break any fat loss plateau and continue to lose more weight with each passing week without compromising/losing any muscle. Most importantly, however, for the love handle and muffin-top afflicted, this strategy will directly address their annoying insulin-based problem.
3 – Use Powerful Insulin Managing Supplements
Green Tea Extract, Raspberry Ketones, African Mango, and Grape Seed Extract all have powerful blood-glucose-lowering properties when taken together that can go a long way in treating those love handles or muffin top caused by insulin insensitivity.
Dozens of experiments show that the combination of these 4 ingredients together cause your body to repartition the sugar (carbs) you consume in your meals to your muscle and organ cells where they can be used rather than converted and stored as fat in your fat cells.
To be effective, you should take each of these supplements in the right dosages before your largest meals of the day.
You can get all 4 of these supplements, along with three others that will help support your fat-burning metabolism in one supplement called Metabolism DAY. You can get it HERE.
Metabolism DAY, especially when combined with the other strategies outlined above, acts as kind of a metabolic/chemical liposuction that will strategically attack your sticky fat that clings to your waist as love handles and that dreaded muffin top.
Rich Farina, M.S. is a Metabolic Health and Conditioning Specialist with over 30 years of experience helping thousands of individuals lose weight, rebuild their metabolisms, and improve their health in his Metabolic Testing & Weight Loss Centers.
He holds both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Exercise Physiology and Public Health respectively and is a passionate advocate of using proven, scientific principles in his approach to exercise and nutrition.
He is a contributing author, professional speaker, and advisor on topics that include weight loss, human performance, and medical fitness.
He continues his deep-seated passion to help people improve their health and longevity through his own line of premium, all-natural nutritional supplements called Truthentics™. The Truthentics™ brand of nutritional supplements is specifically designed to help people compensate for nutritional deficiencies and bring their bodies back into balance.
