Some Causes of Belly Fat

For a lot of us belly fat just seems to appear out of nowhere and many may not know the reason for the additional fat to their body. However, there is a reason why most things happen and this is no different for a change in body composition.
Most of the time getting a fat belly has to do with a lifestyle change.
This may be giving up an activity you once participated in or the addition of a few untimely meals a few times a week or even a new job that may see you commuting in the car as opposed to walking to catch the bus or train.
Whatever it maybe, it’s good to address the issue before your belly fat continues to grow.
It can be surprising how much lifestyle changes can result in additional, unwanted fat being put on.For example, if you were someone who used to walk to work but now you need to travel by car this can result in an extra 200-400 calories being left burned.

If these additional calories from food aren’t being burned by your daily activity then they will result in body fat being stored on your body.
The same goes for eating foods that are dense with calories such as foods with high levels of fat such as fries, mince meat, potato chips,cakes and so on. Eating a pizza in your daily diet can add well over a 1000 calories to your diet. If this large amount of calories isn’t burnt then it will result in belly fat being stored.
What you may be surprised to hear is that if your diet is in order you can actually maintain and even lose weight simply by eating fewer calories than you require day-by-day.
Here are a few of the reasons why individuals put on fat due to their diets.

Fats and Carbs after 8pm
Calories are what our bodies consume as a fuel source. When these calories from foods are not used they tend to settle as fat. It’s for this reason that you should take special note of the foods you eat late at night when our bodies are inactive and consuming very few calories.
For example, if we consume a pizza with 1200 calories at 10 pm and our bodies only consume a fraction of that. Those calories are going to be stored as fat.
As a result you should only aim to eat food that are low in calories later on in the day. Foods such as salmon or chicken and broccoli are excellent low calorie, high protein meals are ideal in the evening and before you go to bed.

Your body isn’t moving.
A lot of the time, when you leave high school or university where they may have once played a sport or engaged in some other physical activity you tend to stop when you work. This of course causes an issue because in time your metabolism won’t be as active as it once was and consequently, your body will not be consuming as many calories.
This means that all the food you used to once eat and continue to eat, will begin to be stored as Belly Fat as these calories from food will not be consumed.