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How to Flatten Your Stomach

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By Linda Goffigan
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How to Flatten Your Stomach is a tried and true formula to get your waist to a healty measurement to denote health and fitness.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • You will need to purchase a journal. Your consideration of purchasing a journal adds to the value of you staying with How to Flatten Your Stomach. The journal is a friendly reminder that you must ent
  1. Step 1

    Step One: Maintain a 1000 daily caloric count intake to reduce your over-all weight. Include fruits and vegetables in food group’s consumables. Keep a journal of what you are eating to keep an accurate count. You will be amazed at the low caloric content of these foods. Remember fresh is just as good as frozen.

  2. Step 2

    Step Two: Walk briskly three times a week for at least thirty minutes. Walking with this regularity will keep you on your 1000 daily caloric count intake. It would be a waste of time to enjoy the fresh air and the environment walking just to abandon your journal with overeating. On Saturdays and Sundays, you may add 200 calories to your weekly intake of 1000 because added weekend activities.

  3. Step 3

    Step three: After your every other day walk, work up to 30 crunches and 10 push ups, daily. Crunches are similar to pushups except you do not touch your toe with out-stretched hands. Your reach towards your toes until you can feel the pull in your abdomen. Be careful not to pull any other muscles especially your upper shoulder muscle. Schedule your exercise routine in the mornings before the hustle and bustle of the day. If you promise to exercise after working 8 hours a day, that plan will be stifled the minute you walk into the door after a hard day of work and all of the gazillion things awaiting for your to do.

  4. Step 4

    Step Four: Disciplined regiment of weight control, exercise and crunches supplemented with push ups will result in flatter abs in about four month maximum time. Busying yourself with projects around the house that have been put on hold will keep you from binging, overeating, or neglecting to write information in your journal. However, if you inadvertedly allow your self to increase, your caloric intake, do not hesitate to get back on the How to Flatten Your Stomach steps.

  5. Step 5

    Step Five: While you are working on flattening your stomach, do read books on nutrition and good eating habits to reinforce your mindset to lose weight and get into shape. Do not allow your self to taste foods while cooking. If you get the urge to taste your cooking, help yourself to a bottle of water flavored with Crystal light to battle the urge. Do not embark on any other exercise program because if you are determined to flatten your stomach, this one will work!

  6. Step 6

    Congratulate yourself four months from now when your stomach is flatten and your abs show that you can wear belts to acentuate your waistline instead of those big old tee shirts. Good Luck.

Tips & Warnings
  • You need a journal to flatten your stomach. Writing down information about what you do daily gives you the added confidence when you have accomplished your 1000 daily caloric count, your every other day daily walk, and your 30 crunchies and 10 pushups. Your journal is your friend, your confidant and your map to flatten your stomach. Use it daily.
  • If you are under doctor's care or on a program prescribed by your doctor get his opinion on this program before starting. If you are a healthy, well-adjusted individual and just needs to lose a few pounds from your abs then this is the program for you. If sticking of the maximm 1200 daily calories and you would like to stretch out the flatten your stomach routine, do not increase your caloric count above 1750 a day.
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