digestive tract of heavy, stomach-expanding foods.
Foods with “healthy fats”: Foods high in Omega 3 fatty acids can do wonders for your waistline. While they are fats, they are actually a kind that helps you combat excess saturated fat, and boost your metabolism to keep your body lean.
Don’t Just Sit There
A non-dietary way to get the beach-ready belly you desire is to get up and move after your meals. Your food is more likely to sit around and hang out in your belly if you just stay seated, or worse, lie down after eating.
If you can walk for 20 minutes immediately after a meal, you can speed up the digestive process and get things moving right on out, instead of making your belly poke out further.
Easy on the Cocktails
And lastly, if you really want to wake up to a flat stomach every day, watch your alcohol intake. Alcohol is a lot like salt, in that it dehydrates your body and makes your body more prone to hold on to excess water.
This means that after a night of indulging in a bottle of wine, you’ll likely see swelling in your face, around your body, and likely your stomach too. Drink modestly and try to have a glass of water with every alcoholic beverage to stay hydrated.
The belly is a fickle thing, but you can do your part to keep it to its true size instead of poking out at the worst possible moments, like the requisite vacation Instagram photoshoot.
Sharita Jennings is a fitness and travel enthusiast and creator of Get Fit Like That, LLC. She is a health policy attorney and ACE certified group fitness instructor and fitness nutrition specialist. She provides online fitness plans and leads group fitness classes in Washington DC. Check out her fitness tips and workouts at GetFitLikeThat.com.