Belly fat: What can I do?

The question I've received most often in my 5 years with Best Body LV + 30 years as a Health coach is: How do I get rid of tummy fat?  In most cases it's not only the fat on the tummy but it's also the most noticeable bulge on your body.  Like everything we offer, a full body and mindful involvement is needed!  Sure you could focus on just exercises for the tummy but if you leave the rest of yourself, eventually it all catches up!  As we all know there are multiple fats on our body – subcutaneous, visceral, brown fat etc, and interestingly they all play a part.  Did you know that the subcutaneous fat has hormones that encourage you to keep them happy and fat?  When we freeze and burst the fat via Cryo t Shock, the hormones are encouraging you to make more fat– it’s a vicious cycle – so what’s the answer?  Combine multiple therapies to defeat the fat producing hormones.  If  you google "tummy fat" the first recommendation is to run for 30 minutes a day! Yes that helps, also to drink green tea which boosts metabolism, cut out carbs, etc,  but mostly it's aerobic exercise that will help to reduce tummy fat - its all about the burn!   However, I also think that what you put in your mouth is very important. Be mindful of ultra-processed foods (packaged foods have so many hidden ingredients) - these foods have triggers in them that make you desire them even more.  A can of coke or Pepsi – it draws you in and you have to have it.   For people that cannot control it I usually recommend they do a week with Prolon - the fat mimicking diet – you get to  eat 5 times a day, very small amounts of vegan prepared packaged food and you do lose a few pounds but the value is more in your health choices going forward (calorie reduction diets help your body reset towards wellness)  and it will help you curtail, maybe eliminate your cravings for more of what you should NOT be eating.  Yes, you guessed it, eat foods closest to whole – an apple or a banana, prepared foods would be oatmeal with coconut milk- olives, gluten free crackers (watch the calories!).  If you buy something in a package you first check how many portions are listed, then the calories per portion – from there you look at the sugar, the fat etc.  as an example a simple bag of baked cheeseballs is 140 calories per serving, but if there are 5 servings and, if you eat the whole package which is NOT hard to do, you have consumed 700 calories – that bag will not help you stay full and yet it's calorie count is equivalent to one meal!   The only good thing I can say about diets is make sure you know what you are eating – you can do that yourself and create your own diet that works for you! 

So when you decide to try Cryo T-Shock, we would freeze the fat on your tummy, then burst them, and over 3 to 6 sessions AND whether you have mindfully watched what you eat, did the minimum in exercise (they now say 150 minutes a week – that is only 22 min a day)  You will see great improvement!  Links below for products mentioned!

$50 discount on your first order – beyond that you can use BestBodyLV as your ongoing purchasing code with discount (15%)!     

https://go.referralcandy.com/share/B4DQP96?s=sp&t=cp

More valuable than vitamins!

When I was in my thirties, I began to feel the effects of the foods that I ate.  And it was not just the spicy or bad foods it was the combination of many foods.  Grapes that had been treated with sulfites, foods with additives to keep them ‘fresh looking’, GMO foods (genetically modified) stayed with me for days and I felt bloated.  These unnaturally altered foods, in addition to my normal allergy foods, created havoc in my tummy!  I started with antacids, then prescription drugs. I was then diagnosed with IBS – at that time there was ‘no cure’ just vigilance in what you ate.  Speed forward to 2025. We now know certain chemicals that treat fruits and vegetables as well as ‘ultra processed’ foods (pretty much all packaged foods) – do not go down well with me!  We've also learned that a major microbiome that affects not just our tummy but our brain is in the tummy, so what we eat truly becomes who we are!  Probiotic and Prebiotics have been around a while but how they truly help us is not clearly understood.  A Prebiotic is a source of ‘feeding’ in your tummy to allow good bacteria to flourish and move nutrients to the colon – simple, but once they get to the colon – what then?  A Probiotic is then released (normally enteric coated or protected from the stomach acid) and that helps again to flourish the good bacteria and create balance!  Because we are not machines, and we eat randomly according to tastes and likes, we don’t necessarily put the right foods in our body - hence the pre and probiotics helping good bacteria to flourish! 

Sounds simple?  Choosing the right formula is harder.  For the past 7 years my husband and I have taken seed.com Pre and Probiotic in a simple pill (the outer portion is made from green bananas which the stomach feeds on and the inner pill makes its way to the colon).  Seed.com is a European company which follows stringent rules regarding how they test for probiotic value – just saying that yogurt or fermented foods provide you with the necessary tools to break down or balance bacteria is not good enough!  In addition to that I recommend another probiotic: Dissolve-It-All by Blushield. I found this product accidentally while researching their EMF products (for another blog).  My interest was piqued that they use Nattokinase (known for reducing fat in the blood) and Serrapeptase, which is known to help airway issues and reduce inflammation.  The two together have been found to reduce fibrous scar tissue!   Impressive duo along with the other enzymes! 

Here are the links to these products, using the code BestBodyLV on both products will allow you a discount on your first order!

www.Blushield.com  - Dissolve-it-All

www.seed.com   - DS-01 Daily Synbiotic

Small yet effectives add-ons for 2025

This year I will be sharing more tips via this blog to reinforce and keep us all healthy and strong for whatever this year brings us!  Let’s start with resolutions – we all know they come and they go sooner than making an impact on our lives.  A couple of great tips from my clients – start small and add it to an existing routine.  We all brush our teeth, we take a shower, meditate, drink water when we get up.  Let’s start small – when you get up you drink about 4 – 6 oz of pure water, no faucet water!  I have constantly reinforced this (more water in fact just not all at once), lo and behold, it was in an article about living to a 100!  And while you wait for the water to absorb, a few stretches and movements – if you are a BBLV Member there are a few moves in the exclusive section on my website.  Drink another 6 – 8 oz.   And if you are a current member taking part of the NMS Face or Cryo Body, please check out the face exercises.  We all have private moments, in the car, in the bathroom etc where we could practice daily a couple of moves exercising the muscles of our face.   As many of you know I am big fan of Isometrics.  These are simple exercises you can do while driving or standing in line grocery store - pull in your tummy and hold or tighten your butt and hold.  And if you are chair bound working on a computer make the time to do a few chair exercise moves during breaks, if you are one of those people that focuses on their work and ‘forget’ themselves, program your phone to remind you to take a break, even it’s deep breathing and walking around your chair a few times!  Our bodies are made to move – as you all have heard me say many times, your lymphatic system which carries your blood and nutrients throughout the body has NO PUMP – if you are not moving, neither is your is your blood – Yikes!