 Hello everyone today I am going to give you seven reasons why it is so hard to lose belly fat which is an important fat that leaves a diabetes that's why you're in diabetes channel but this channel is not only about diabetes we talk about weight loss metabolism and so forth I am Dr. Ahmed Ergen I'm an under chronologist and metabolism expert and a diabetes specialist so let's dive into why it is so freaking hard to lose this damn belly fat now number one the belly fat is actually a hormonal gland yeah you heard it right it is actually the fat cells in our body especially the belly fat the visceral fat we call this which is the fat around your organs that are pushing out from your belly the visceral fat actually works like a hormonal gland they create a lot of enzymes and cytokines and proteins that actually creates insulin resistance they actually protect themselves especially in that area where you are doing everything you can but that belly fat once you develop that fat well it will go but I'll tell you that but it is very hard to remove that fat because it is protecting itself with a lot of cytokines so the best way to avoid or best way to prevent that problem would be not to gain belly fat we'll talk about that in a second but I'm telling you that the belly fat is a hormonal gland that protects itself that's number one number two well we all kind of like the sweets and the alcohol right so the social gatherings you know the parties you know the birthdays and this day that day you know all sorts of holidays we are always subject to you know making this hard decision or what eating not eating drinking not drinking it is a difficult decision and it's surrounding us everywhere so every time you say oh it's a one time it's not gonna hurt me it's gonna hurt you and that thing that you eat the alcohol and any sweets and the carbs goes right to your belly your belly fat will accept it graciously and will not let it go so that's number two well it's number three low estrogen levels lead to belly fat so no wonder my office is full of post-menopausal women trying to understand why they're gaining weight although they have not changed anything in their life and I don't blame them because when the estrogen levels go down unfortunately your body shifts the weight from your buttocks and from your thighs to your belly and sometimes a hormone replacement helps but most of the time even when you take hormone replacement most women will see an increase in the size of their abdominal area due to change in their life and number four the diet only will not get rid of the belly fat you have to exercise now a lot of people have a tons of exercise excuses not to do exercise right but you have to if you're not doing cardio if you're not getting your heart rate up to 120 130 for at least 30 minutes to an hour that belly fat is not going to go away so yes you have to diet right avoid all the bad carbohydrates the sweets the alcohol but at the same time you have to learn to make a priority to exercise every day and especially cardiac exercise to get rid of the belly fat and number five is the cortisol now cortisol the stress hormone and unfortunately makes fat cells thrive especially in that visceral area in the abdominal area so if you're stressed out or if you just stress about everything or if you just have a difficult life you know that's just not going to help you to get rid of the belly fat so do some relaxation do some yoga do something that will relax you and try to avoid stressful situations that will definitely help you in the long run to avoid that belly fat but number six sometimes you cannot really beat genetics or actually pretty much never you cannot beat your genetics so if your mom was an apple-shaped person you know if people in your family have significant abdominal obesity sometimes it's just in your genes and don't just be frustrated because everything you did I said and you still didn't lose everything in your belly you'll lose it but you may still retain some and that may be just simply genetics and lastly and most importantly the added sugars now most people think that they have a great diet but they don't mind putting all sorts of ketchup on their food for example well these ketchup's are full of added fructose and sugar that you may not be aware of so every time you consume a food try to make a habit of looking at the nutritional facts especially high fructose corn syrup is heavily used in United States in many developed countries as well and there is great evidence that the fructose especially those high fructose corn syrup not the fructose from the fruits but these processed fructose goes to your liver gets trapped and turns into fat immediately so you need to make sure that you are staying away from everything that is processed that gets on your table so guys I hope this helps and I hope you like this video give a thumbs up share and we'll see you in the next video. 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