Flatten the Stomach
7 Tips with Food and Exercise

To flatten the stomach, you might consider, you just need to exercise those stomach muscles and lose more weight.

When I was in my 20's, I had a pudgy stomach. I absolutely hated it. My clothes were tight around the middle and I was uncomfortable. So I learned a few things that eliminated the problem.

I found "what food you eat" and "when you eat it" has a lot to do with a flat stomach just as much as exercise.

7 Tips to Help You Flatten the Stomach

1. Drink an 8 oz glass of water before eating a cooked meal and then don't drink liquid during your meal when cooked. Water before a meal brings fresh oxygen to the intestines and will enhance your digestion. When taken with the meal, it mixes with the meal and only adds to the bulge.
2. Don't eat cooked meats, fish or poultry with starchy foods. They don't like the same enzymes and take a long time to digest when eaten together. This creates the bulge. And this goes double for fruits with a cooked meal. The result is gas and bloating which can be uncomfortable in more ways than one.
3. Eat carbohydrates, proteins and good fats at the same meal following the 40-30-30 formula or the Zone Diet. This can get great results, ignoring other tips when you follow the specific rules on food in books relating this subject.
4. Take enzymes that are suppose to assist in the digestion of the carbohydrates, proteins and fats. They may be in different little capsules so inspect the functions before you purchase. No all enzymes are equal so you'll have to test for yourself to see which ones work.
5. If you're never full after finishing your meal, eat two to four raw organic or sustainably grown olives as part of your good fats quota and save one or two for the end of the meal. These raw olives provide the really good oils for the body as well as a great source of minerals. By providing so much nutrition, they are vary satisfying. For us, believe it or not, they take the place of a dessert.
6. Eat your largest protein meal in the morning. Your stomach is empty and will digest well and keep you going for hours. But for cooked food, I still ensure good protein digestion with digestive enzymes.

   Glen and I use to eat a small portion of salmon or bison every morning with a very large salad and a good oil dressing. We did find we do better with less fish and bison. We now only eat fish or bison once or twice a week for lunch.

   We switched over to nuts, seeds, and our highly nutritious smoothie for breakfast everyday. This really keeps us going for hours and our digestion works better with less cooked proteins.

7. Follow a good exercise program with some special focus on a flat stomach once your eating is under better control. Sit ups are good but very strenuous unless you are already in good shape.

   I prefer the stomach exercises given by Callan Pinckney in Callanetics. In fact there is a video out called "Quick Callanetics Stomach" that will be perfect for helping you flatten the stomach.

References

• 40-30-30 Fat Burning Nutrition by Joyce & Gene Daoust
• Enter the Zone by Barry Sears Ph.D., with Bill Lawren,
• The Healing Power of Enzymes by DicQie Fuller, Ph.D., D.Sc.
• Enzyme Nutrition by Dr. Edward Howell
• Callanetics by Callan Pinckney

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