Benefits of a Fat Loss Diet

Posted April 3, 2019

When is a Fat Loss Diet Right For You?

Although people are made in all shapes and sizes, there does come a time when your belly can become too big for your own good. In general, men with a waistline that measures 40 inches or more and women whose waistline is 35 inches or larger are at greater risk for health problems. Dropping a few pounds of fat from their midsection can help these people avoid life-threatening health problems. In fact, losing just five to 10 percent of your weight can reduce the odds that you’ll suffer complications with your health. Continue reading to learn more about the benefits of a fat loss diet.

Exploring its Benefits

If you’ve packed on a few extra pounds in recent months or years, you might be like a lot of other people and carry the extra weight around your midsection. It’s common for people who are overweight or obese to carry their extra weight in the belly area.

While you may be eager to have six-pack abs or to reclaim the shape you were in when you attended high school, there’s no reason for you to have such aggressive goals. Simply dropping a few pounds from your midsections can yield meaningful health benefits.

Lowers the Risk of Diabetes

If you drop only five percent of your weight, you’ll enjoy improved blood sugar control. With there being a strong correlation between belly fat and the onset of diabetes, you can decrease the odds that you’ll develop diabetes when you drop some weight.

While there isn’t much you can do to target fat loss in the belly area, following a fat loss diet and exercising can help decrease fat all over your body, including your tummy. Consuming more omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin C may reduce the circulation of stress hormones throughout your body, which might help limit the amount of fat your body stores around your belly.

Additional Health Benefits

Although lowering the chances that you’ll develop diabetes and having better blood sugar control are significant health benefits that dropping some weight and body fat can provide, they’re far from the only ones you’ll enjoy as you lose pounds. Here are some of the additional benefits that often accompany weight loss:

Improved liver health and reduced chances of contracting liver disease
Lower blood pressure
Lower risk of heart disease
Better sleep quality, reduced snoring and a smaller chance you’ll develop sleep apnea
Reduced cancer risk
Lower chance you’ll get arthritis
Improved sexual health
Improved mood and reduced symptoms of depression

Fat Loss Diet Plans by Dr. Weight Loss of Atlanta

If you’re ready to lose fat while you lose weight, you may be tempted to try the latest diet craze. While that temptation is understandable, you should seek the help of the experts at Dr. Weight Loss of Atlanta instead. We’ll create a custom fat loss diet for you that will facilitate the loss of fat and weight in a healthy manner that will enable you to keep those extra pounds at bay permanently if you stick with the plan.

To learn more about our fat loss diets and how effective they can be, contact Dr. Weight Loss of Atlanta now and schedule a free consultation.

Dr. Alex Roig

Throughout his college years, Dr. Roig taught as a Personal Trainer, helping people exercise and diet more effectively while honing his passion for health. After graduating from Life University, he worked as a full-time chiropractor until 2002 when he decided to pursue his passion of helping people change there lives by weight loss. He has been helping people with weight loss for over 25 years.