Why is it always a struggle to lose belly fat? You try everything you can find and yet still that stubborn belly fat does not shrink at all... right? If you have seen the many infomercials on late night television, you know that they promise you the world - from overnight cures to curious supplements to a variety of magic pills.

Oh and do not forget the many exercise gadgets that claim to remove belly fat in a matter of days simply by attaching a belt around your waist as you go about your daily chores, or by using some rocking machine that will melt away the fat.

Give me a break! After a while, after you try these products and realize they do not work, you only feel cheated by these trite schemes and gimmicks that are thrown at you by fraudulent marketers who want you to believe that they have the answer to overnight belly fat loss.

The good news is that belly fat loss is possible. The gimmicks and schemes of the late night television hucksters will not achieve it, but there are two simple fat loss principles that deal with the science and reality of belly fat loss. These principles will explain how to lose your persistent belly fat - and how you can keep the fat off for life!

1. The first simple fat loss principle deals with structuring your workouts. To stimulate fat-loss from your stomach, one thing you must immediately do is stop wasting so much of your time doing hundreds of reps of abdominal crunch exercises, leg lifts, and torso twists with the expectation that you will be able to "spot-reduce" your fat belly and love handles.

You may have seen reputable fitness articles written that attest to the fact that spot-reduction does not work. In other words, you will not lose belly fat by simply focusing on exercises that target the stomach area. It is a strange thing that even though many people realize this, they will still spend a lot of time applying abs exercises in an attempt to target the stomach hoping to reduce their belly fat.

To be quite clear on this point, abdominal exercises are important for the strengthening of your core and for maintaining a healthy back. This form of direct abs exercise should not be a major part of your exercise routine however. Greater focus needs to be spent on multi-joint exercises that will target the larger muscle groups of the body such as the back, the chest and the legs.

You will find that fact to be one of the REAL principles of getting rid of belly fat for good. Targeting these larger muscle groups in your exercise routine works to increase your body's metabolic rate, not only during the workout itself but also during the 24-48 hour period following the workout. What also happens is an increased stimulation of the fat burning hormones in your body. Do you believe that these hormonal and metabolic responses are achieved using those gimmicky exercise contraptions of the late night infomercials? Certainly not - not even close!

If you want to lose belly fat fast...take note of the following ways:

" Do some squats with a barbell

" Do some dead lifts

" Do some lunges

" Do some step-ups

" Do some back work

" Do some chest work

It is not important whether you use barbells, dumbbells or even your own bodyweight in the exercises, the important thing to focus on is doing multi-joint exercises at a high intensity. Essentially keep up the pace - do not take 5-minute breaks between sets. The key words are focus and intensity while you work out. Do not let anyone tell you that you can be a couch potato with some "ad-belt" strapped around your waist or that you can do a 2-minute work out with a "rocker" device and you will miraculously lose belly fat! That is far from the truth!

2. The second simple fat loss principle deals with nutrition and how that relates to getting rid of your flabby belly. It is important to realize that "diets" actually work against your attempts to lose belly fat. Some notable "diets" are the soup diet, the potato diet, low-carb diet, the grapefruit diet and others that will restrict 1 or more macro-nutrients (fat, carbohydrates and protein). What ends up happening is that your metabolic rate becomes reduced and you lose lean muscle. The end result is that you will become fatter when you resume normal eating again!

When you follow the fad "diets", processes related to normal body hormonal balance, muscle glycogen processes, blood sugar and insulin, etc., are all negatively affected and as a result fat loss is stopped!

What is important to realize is that fad "diets" are only gimmicks and we should always eat a full and balanced diet including a wide variety of healthy natural sources of fats, proteins and carbohydrates. In this way we will provide our bodies with the necessary vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, macro-nutrients and enzymes we need to maintain our body's health and to keep it running as a well-nourished fat-burning machine!

I have outlined above only two important principles for losing your belly fat fast and doing it the natural way. Please see below for a report that gives you some good fat-loss strategies that will help flatten your belly to reveal your hidden abdominals.

To your success in losing belly fat!