Health: 5 Ways To Burn Tummy Fat

Fat in the abdomen or belly fat, is an issue that people need to take seriously. If you have excess fat around your belly, it has to be addressed. There are a number of strategies that have proven very effective in getting rid of that extra belly fat. The top 5 ways to burn tummy fat are mentioned below.

Keep away from sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages

Sugar as we know is half glucose and half fructose. Fructose can only be metabolized in small amounts in the liver. When we eat too much refined sugar, we flood the liver with it and the liver turns it into fat. Added sugar is also unhealthy. Sugar-sweetened beverages have a 60% risk of causing obesity in children.  Liquid calories are not registered by the brain so when we drink beverages, we end up consuming greater calories. Make a decision to minimize sugar in your diet and completely avoid sweetened drinks, including juices, tea and coffee having sugar in them. Excess sugar is the primary cause of belly fat; so start reducing your intake to lean and flat tummy.

Consume protein

Keeping track of what you eat is a good way of maintaining a healthy diet. Protein reduces a person’s cravings by 60%, boosts metabolism and helps reduce your calorie intake. If losing belly fat is your aim, then adding protein to your diet is the best way to achieve this. A study claimed that protein was inversely related to belly fat. Increase your consumption of seafood, fish, meats, poultry and other items that are rich in protein. You can also adopt protein supplements if your intake isn’t enough.

Cut carbohydrate completely
Restrict your carbohydrate intake. This will reduce your appetite and help you lose weight. Studies have proven that low-carbohydrate diets lead to triple the weight loss than low fat diets. In addition, low-carbohydrate diets reduce water weight and, therefore, a difference is seen within just a few days. These diets specifically target belly fat. Avoid refined carbohydrates like pasta and white bread. Apart from weight loss, low-carbohydrate diets have other health benefits as well.

Eat foods rich in fiber

Consuming fiber helps reduce weight, but not all fiber has the same effects. Viscous fibers have a greater impact on weight as they bind water and form a thick gel in the gut, slowing the movement of food to the stomach. This gives you a feeling of fullness and reduced appetite. Soluble fiber is effective in reducing belly fat, leading to metabolic improvements. So consume plant foods like vegetables and fruits. Legumes and some cereals like oats are also good sources.

Exercise and be physically active

Exercise helps lead a long, healthy life. Aerobic exercises like walking, swimming reduce belly fat to a great extent. It also prevents people from re-gaining lost weight, showing its importance in weight maintenance. Aerobic exercises reduce blood sugar and metabolic abnormalities related to obesity. Some of the most effective belly exercises include the bicycle exercise, the chair leg raise, exercise ball crunch, vertical leg crunch and long arm crunch. By doing some of these you are bound to see results. Read here

A combination of exercise coupled with the right diet is probably the most effective way of ridding yourself of belly fat. So try and follow these methods and start

PRAYER BRINGS RESULTS

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. - Acts 12:5

Acts 12 records the story of a crisis situation in the early church. James had been put to death by King Herod.

Peter had been arrested and was clearly next. So what did the church do? They prayed. But they didn't pray just any prayer. They prayed with passion. We read that "constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church."

The phrase "constant prayer" could be translated "earnest prayer" or "stretched outwardly." It is reaching for something.

Have you ever dropped an item that was just beyond your reach, and you were straining to get it? That is how the church was praying. Theirs was not a casual, yawning, Lord-help-Peter kind of prayer.

This was a storm-the-gates-of-heaven kind of prayer. They were not backing down. And guess what? Their prayers were heard.

When a Gentile woman begged Jesus to heal her demon-possessed daughter, He told her, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs" (Matthew 15:26).

She could have stormed away, but instead she answered, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table" (verse 27).

Jesus was not pushing her away; He was drawing her in. He knew her faith was great. And because of her persistence, her daughter was healed the same day.

Sometimes when the answer to our prayer doesn't come right away, we assume that God is saying no. Maybe. But maybe He wants us to keep praying with persistence.

This is the kind of prayer that prevails with God, the prayer into which 'we put our whole soul, reaching out toward God in agonizing desire. Much of our prayer has no power in it because we put so little heart into it.

Prayer: Lord, teach me to pray with passion.

Scriptural Reading: Acts 12:5-19

Health: 5 reasons for you to stop disposing off used tea bags

You make tea, you dip tea-bags in – but don’t throw them away after you are done with them! Even after providing you with a rejuvenating drink, they have enough benefits left in them to help you out in five ways.

1. Tea is an excellent ingredient for reducing blemishes on the skin! It contains tannin which being anti-inflammatory and soothing removes redness and swelling. Hence it is effective against under-eye bags, herpes marks, bruises, scratches and pigmentations on the skin. Just wet the tea-bag under cold running water and apply to the affected areas for about 15 minutes.
2. No need to buy shoe deodorizers or fancy dehumidifiers for your expensive boots! Tea-bags will help you out even here! Simply dry tea-bags and slip them into each shoe, and the wonder-bags will soak up the dampness and bad odor.
3. Are you dreading washing up after dinner because you know you have about a dozen hard-crusted utensils in the kitchen sink? Yes, you’ve guessed it – tea-bags to the rescue again! Simply fill the sink with water and put in a tea-bag, and soak the cookware in it overnight, for easy scrubbing in the morning.
4. Tea is also an excellent natural anti-insect and anti-pest ingredient. If you know the zones in your house where the dreaded creatures lurk, place tea-bags there to shoo them away without spraying harsh chemicals inside your home. read here
5. Sometimes your fridge starts stinking, what with various kinds of food odors, spilled food and sometimes even spoiled food. There is a very easy way to get rid of this bad odor – just toss in a used bag of tea in one corner, and you are done. It will absorb the bad smell in the fridge.

THE VOICE OF GOD

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. Isaiah 55:8-9

One of God's desire is that we hear His voice. He speaks to us in many varied ways. God has said that His ways are not our ways. If left to our reasoning, we will constantly make wrong choices and decisions.

Without hearing His voice, we fail to fully walk in the full counsel of God and miss His best for our lives.

Thus, our goal is to avoid being deceived and to develop a listening ear that hears the voice of God with confidence.

Our goal is to have such intimacy with God that we can walk in the full blessing of our decisions and be assured they are not based on our own reasoning alone.

This does not mean that we do not use the intellectual and logical skills that He has equipped us with.

A.W. Tozer said that the man or woman who is wholly and joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice - any choice will be the right one.

J. Oswald Sanders explains his method of receiving guidance from God for decisions: "I try to gather all the information and all the facts that are involved in a decision, and then weigh them up and pray over them in the Lord's presence, and trust the Holy Spirit to sway my mind in the direction of God's will. And God generally guides by presenting reasons to my mind for acting in a certain way."

The apostle Paul said, "For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose (Philippians 2:13).

God has equipped us with everything we need to make good decisions. Hearing His voice is the first step toward making right choices in life.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to give you His counsel and direction in all the decisions you make every day.

Scriptural Reading: Isaiah 55:6-11

Prayer for the New Week and Happy New Month

God will remember all your good works and reward you greatly. Your sins and curses shall no longer

stand as hindrances to your manifestations.The Almighty God will proof to the whole world that you are His favourite. Your own case and situation shall be exceptionally enviable. Do not despair because of what you are going through now, the journey is not far anymore. You will reach your goal very soon. It is your time to shine in Jesus Name.

Happy New Month of August Folks, From ASB'SWorld.

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How Lie Can Lock You Down hmmm

"(We are) casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5).

In the Hebrew Calendar, we are in the month of Av, this month is represented by the Tribe of Simeon, and has been said to be a month in which keys to reverse the curse are released. Now for some people this can be a bunch of rhetoric, but for me, this month has proved to be exactly what it says it is. It is a key giving, curse reversing, kind of month. What God has been showing me in just this first week of this Hebrew month of Av is blowing my natural mind, exciting my spiritual mind and healing my soul.

Since God is omniscient, meaning He is all knowing, He knew we were going to be born in this time in history, He knew we would be having the challenges personally and corporately that we are having, and He decided in His omniscience to have us be alive for such a time as this. So, God is not moved, nor surprised by anything that is going on in us, through us, or even around us, personally, nationally or internationally. Do you agree?

So, since this is all TRUTH, then where is the lie that is keeping us powerless, keeping us bound, keeping us locked up, held back? The problem is not with God, He is bigger than we can even comprehend, He is more powerful than we recognize, and He is more loving than we believe, so the issue lies with our vain imaginations. Somewhere inside of us, we have come to believe a lie, which when we come into agreement with it, becomes a stronghold and hinders what God wants to do in us and through us. Stay with me.

Yesterday, I was watching a sermon by John Paul Jackson and the Lord was speaking directly to me through this man of God. The Lord showed me that I have lived with a stronghold of believing what others have said about me. Now for me, it was a spirit of intimidation that I come into agreement with. This spirit of intimidation eroded at my confidence and kept me in the realm of knowing and even understanding, but not believing.

Believing is putting our whole weight on God, it is not doubting, fearing or even flinching when an attack comes because you know what He said and He is not a man that He should lie. So, I would second guess myself, that I heard clearly, or that I was really as up to date as I thought I was when it came to obedience.

Why is this significant? It's significant because the intimidator kept me from believing what God was saying about me, and, in doing so, kept me from receiving what God wants to pour out on me. I am not a mistake, God knew the personality He gave me, the body type I would have, everything about me and He called me to be a mouthpiece for Him. I did not ask for, have an opinion about or get to give advice on any of these things.

He made me like this and He likes what he made, He actually said it is very good. So, my vain imagination was that I did not like what He made and some others have not either, so I tried to dumb it down, shut it up, tone it down, and in doing so, I came into agreement with the intimidator to stay down, and this is a vain imagination that exalted itself over the knowledge of God.

I don't know what stronghold you are stuck in and honestly you probably don't either, for the enemy is very subtle and sneaky. But this I do know, the mystery of why things are not working is in the history and as we allow the Lord to look into our history, and show us the lie that has us locked up, we will be given keys that will reverse the curse in our own lives, so we can cast down vain imaginations in the lives of those we love. I'm free and now I see and agree with who God has made me to be. It's about to get really fun!

Lisa Great