Imagine one day looking in the mirror at your six pack abs and thinking, "Wow, these abs are really mine! All that hard work paid off." Imagine hearing the daily compliments from all the people in your life; "You look great! How did you do it?" Imagine being in public with an air of confidence, so happy to be you!

Well, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but if you can't break your habit of doing these 2 things, it will never happen.

- Fad Diets

- Processed Foods

If you want to lose body fat naturally, STAY AWAY from fad diets.

Here's how it is when you go on any of those "low carb", "low fat", "low calorie", etc. diets; you deprive your system of the vitamins and nutrients that keep it running properly, especially your metabolism.

Fad diets cause your body to store extra body fat mostly in your stomach because it needs to conserve resources. It doesn't know there are reasons for not getting food. You may be trying to meet a weight loss goal but it's thinking famine. So for protection, your body goes into "starvation mode".

Once it's in that mode, the body will burn your muscle to use for energy instead of body fat. Your weight will appear to go down on the scale but it's not healthy weight loss. By not having muscle that will burn calories for you when you're relaxing, the body will convert food into fat much more easily once you get back into your regular eating habits. Your body won't have the muscle anymore to convert the calories from the food so it will get stored as fat. That's why you notice an increase in weight after a fad diet.

Stay away from processed food if you ever want to reveal your abs.

There are 2 ingredients in the foods that are processed that are extremely unhealthy for you. They cause you to crave more food, leading to overeating and obesity, along with many other health risks.

Artificial trans fats are found in cooking ingredients like hard margarine, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils (mainly used to prolong the shelf life of processed foods to maximize profits), and shortening. These are found in most processed foods, like I said to make it available longer without compromising taste or profits.

The major health concern? Coronary Heart Disease.

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is added to almost every food on the shelves that needs sweetened. It extends the shelf life of food as well without compromising taste. It's sweeter than sugar so it can be used less and it's cheaper to companies can buy more.

What is one major health concern? Obesity.

These 2 ingredients cause a dramatic rise in your blood sugar (hence the "sugar high") and in turn lead to those exhausting crashes. These dangerous cycles actually cause more cravings of simple carbs and refined sugars, which lead to extra body fat.

With the recent methods of food processing, our food is actually missing of many of the healthy nutrients and vitamins needed for a healthy body! So what we believe we're feeding ourselves and our families is hardly close to what it really is. Why do you think we have so many health problems to deal with now? If we could avoid these 2 ingredients in processed foods and fad diets by eating organic, unprocessed food, we would provide ourselves with REAL food full of vitamins our bodies need AND lose weight at the same time!

Controlling your diet is THE MOST important factor in achieving flat abs. Whether you want to accept it or not, you actually have decent abdominal muscles right now but they're covered by layers of belly flab. To make your abs VISIBLE, you have to lower your body fat percentage by refraining from processed foods and fad diets.