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Subtle changes to your daily routine can help you lose extra fat around your belly and whittle your love handles away. In addition to switching to healthier foods, such as whole grains and unsaturated fats and exercising daily, examine your sleep schedule. Adults who get fewer than seven hours of sleep nightly are more likely to be obese, according to the “Washington Post.”

As summer rolls around and bikini season approaches, the war on belly fat begins. According to Dr. Michael Jensen, an endocrinology specialist with the WebMD website, most people lose proportionally more fat around the abdominal region than other parts of the body during weight loss. While you can’t choose where on your body to focus fat loss, you can take steps to lose weight all over your body, abs included, while strengthening your abdominal muscles and eating foods to help eliminate excess fat storage. With ab exercises and a healthy diet, you’ll slim down, build up six-pack abs and develop habits for long-term health.

After giving birth, you’re likely to have a few extra pounds hanging around, particularly if you gained more than the recommended amount. Unfortunately, having children means that it’s a lot harder for you to take the time to focus on yourself and lose the weight. You will have to work on eating healthy foods and exercising, but you can do this while you take care of your baby–it simply takes a bit more creativity.

How many times have you heard, as long as youre healthy, it doesnt matter what size you are? Everybodys been told, at one point or another, that weight doesnt matter as much as leading a healthy lifestyle. Well, while the fat acceptance movement certainly advocates this stance, that doesnt necessarily mean its right. Never heard of the fat acceptance movement? Well, it really is just like it sounds. People all over are joining social groups that promote the idea that any one can be healthy at any size. While there is no debate about how stick-thin models further an unhealthy and unrealistic ideal of feminine beauty, is the opposite true? Is the recent trend of accepting overweight bodies just as unhealthy?