Ever look at yourself in the mirror and wonder how you can lose weight by getting rid of fat on just a certain part of the body? This is called spot fat reduction and even if some diet plans say they will do this it just is not true. You can't just lose fat from one part of your body.

You might hav flabby arms and big legs. There is no diet plan out there that will specifically take weight off in just those areas. Be nice if there were such a thing.

When fat is lost it is taken generaly from the entire body and not just one area. People often say they lost fat in the belly area. Really it was lost all over, and you were just looking and thinking of your belly.

There is something you can do to help the process of losing weight and fat. Exercise. Yes you need to begin an exercise program along side of your eating habits. Now you will look toned and in real shape. These exercises can be aimed to target certain muscle groups in the body to look mored toned.

Ab crunch's as an example will strengthen the core muscles helping with posture while giving men that six pack look they all seem to want. With a renewed flatter stomach you will look like you lost weight.

Exercising the triceps will help make your arms seem slimmer and toned. You might really not have lost any body fat but it looks like you did.

After fat has been lost all over the body you will start to see the rewards of your exercise routine. That nice mid section with a six pack, broad shoulders and a strong back. Muscular legs that are powerful and a mind as sharp as a sword. All because of your food choices and exercise routine.

A lot of body builders don't even do any crunch's for the abs. They just lose body fat and reveal underneath all that fat those great looking ab muscles. They are there just hidden under all that fat.

This article is here to help you understand you won't get a flat tummy showing those ab muscles from just working an exercise machine every day if you have a bunch of fat covering them up. Certainly your core muscles will gain strength helping your lower back muscles get stronger but regardless of what you do you still need to get rid of that body fat.

What you need to understand is that you need to use a combination of healthy eating and exercise to burn that ugly fat away. The T.V. commercials with their wonderful machines that say will burn fat also always have a diet plan to follow. It is both together that make the system work.