Fat Beer Belly

Drinking beer in excess quantities will give you a fat beer belly. This is more so in men than it is in woman because men store more of their excess weight on their stomach whereas women tend to store it on their hips and thighs.

Every gram of alcohol (very close to a ml) contains 7.1 calories and this is second only to fat in calorie density per gram. Together these two items are largely responsible for most weight gain. In comparison protein and carbohydrates contain a more modest 4 calories per gram.

A standard glass of beer has around 70 calories, a six pack of beer will give you around 840 calories which might be close to half your daily calorie requirements. Add in a plate of fries and it is easy to se how they add up. Drink a six pack for six days a week and it is a massive 5040 additional calories.

As a pound of body fat has about 3500 calories, you can gain an additional one and a half pounds of body fat per week from drinking a six pack daily, or 75 lbs per year, this will soon amount to a fat beer belly.

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Weight gain is simply caused by eating or consuming more calories than your body can use with the surplus being stored as body fat to be used at a later date by our very efficient and genetically superior storage system. It is not necessarily the alcohol per se that is adding the weight but by adding alcohol to our normal food intake we are obviously increasing the risk of over consumption.

Excess beer consumption tends to show up as visceral fat that is stored in and around the liver and other internal organs such as the kidneys. The typical fat beer belly is often round and hard to the touch rather than the layer of fat on the outside of the abdominal muscles which has a softer feel.

So some of the simpler ways to get rid of this fat beer belly include stopping or reducing the consumption of beer as a source of unwanted and unneeded extra calories. There is no beneficial food value in alcohol it is just unnecessary calories. 

Avoid eating late at night and especially the largest meal of the day. We are not consuming many calories as we sleep and this large meal is extending our stomach all night as we sleep and it is busy slowly getting turned to fat.

By improving posture both when sitting and standing and concentrating on holding our stomach in will assist in reducing the round fat beer belly shape. While it is not possible to spot reduce the fat from the belly by exercising the abdominal muscles you will tighten them which will give an appearance of a flatter stomach, and will help to stop the muscles from sagging.

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If we can reduce the alcohol intake as well as fatty foods and replace these with lots of vegetables and fruit we will make a substantial difference to our calorie intake even though we may be eating a similar quantity of food, it will have lower calories. Too many carbohydrates at once will increase insulin levels which leads to a lowering of metabolism and an increase in fat storage. Remember that fat and alcohol have the highest calorific values of all food items.

Get rid of the junk food, it is just not good for us, and set aside time for a programmed exercise regime. Our bodies are genetically adapted to be active and we need to spend some time exercising.

Building muscle mass has huge benefits in losing that fat beer belly both from increasing energy expenditure but also in maintenance and recover time for the muscles, all require energy and burn calories long after the exercise is completed.

Likewise a good cardio workout will burn calories during the workout and long after it is completed by increasing your metabolism. Ideally this will incorporate interval training where the intensity level is raised and lowered throughout the workout period.

The only way to lose the fat beer belly itself is to reduce body fat overall which is sometimes not so easy with our sedentary lifestyle, combined with a lack of exercise, and a take away fast food diet but we need to make the effort if we are to have long and healthy lives. The fat beer belly did not get there over night and it will not disappear over night but with the right program and goals you will succeed.