But before we can look at how to lose stomach fat fast, we need to understand that there are two types of stomach fat. This is important in understanding what is happening to your body as you are losing fat.

The first kind of belly fat is called visceral fat or omentum. This type of body fat is found deep inside your abdominal cavity. It is what cushions your internal organs from shock among other functions.

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Omentum fat also happens to be the most unhealthy fat when in excess. 

Because it is next to important organs like liver and kidneys, it will easily tend to "poison" them. 

Excess omentum is what gives one that firm extended belly pot. 

This kind of belly fat does not jiggle as it deep inside your abdomen, and is actually underneath your abdominal muscles.

The second kind of stomach fat is called subcutaneous fat. 

This is body fat that is deposited just below your skin. Unlike visceral fat, it is above your muscles all over your body. 

It is the fat that you can pinch on your neck, back thighs and even belly.

Generally speaking, men tend to deposit more visceral fat than women; while women tend to deposit a lot of fat around the hips, thighs and buttocks as subcutaneous fat.

So when you are looking to lose stomach fat fast, you are actually looking at losing two types of stomach fat. Science points to the theory that though you can lose body fat using both exercises and diets, each of these types of belly fat respond better to one of these techniques.

What it takes to lose stomach fat

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How your body stores body fat is controlled by your genes. Generally there are three main ways that your body stores body fat resulting to the three main fat body types namely, mesomorph, endomorph, ectomorph. More commonly you probably have heard of a pear and apple shaped body.

It is this genetically controlled deposit of fat that also controls where you lose fat first.

Unfortunately, because of the two types of belly fat, the stomach tends to be the last or atleast one of the last areas to lose belly fat. This in turn means to lose stomach fat, you will need to lose most of your body fat.

How to lose a lot of body fat fast

As we noted earlier, there are two components in losing stomach fat or any other body fat fast and in huge amounts. The first is using an effective fat loss diet. The second is using fat burning exercise.

Studies seem to indicate that visceral fat tends to be much easier to lose than subcutaneous fat. It also tends to respond most to a diet strategy. Subcutaneous fat on the other hand tends to respond more to exercises than a diet.

So when looking for how to lose stomach fat, you will need both a diet and workout strategy.

A diet strategy needs to make sure that your physiology is put in a state of fat burning. And that your body does not store any more calories as fat. You do this by targeting the hormones that control fat storing in your body.

The exercise strategy on the other hand should be designed to elevate fat burning hormones in your body so your body turns on its natural fat burning capabilities by increasing metabolism.

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