Day 28 - Bikini Body Boot Camp

3 Vegetables That Fight Abdominal Fat

A unique way that a few specific vegetables can actually stimulate the burning of abdominal fat...

There is a class of vegetables that contain very specific phytonutrients that actually help to fight against stubborn belly fat.

Let me explain what these unique vegetables are and why they help to burn stomach fat...

Chemicals that force your body to hold onto belly fat

Something you may have never heard about is that certain chemicals in our food supply and our environment, such as pesticides, herbicides, and certain petrochemicals from air and water pollution, household cleaners, cosmetics, etc can react with your body and make your body store excess abdominal fat. These chemicals are known as xenoestrogens.

Xenoestrogens are chemicals that you are exposed to (and are hard to avoid in the modern world) that have an estrogenic effect in your body.  Excess exposure to these can cause hormone balance disruptions for both men and women. So these can wreak havoc in the body for both men and women.

These estrogenic chemicals that we are exposed to on a daily basis can stimulate your body to store belly fat, along with many other problems (including cancer risks in the long term).

So here's where this specific class of vegetables comes in handy...

Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale, cabbage, etc. contain very specific and unique phytonutrients such as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that help to fight against these estrogenic compounds...And by fighting against these belly fat stimulating estrogenic chemicals, this is just 1 more step in helping you to win the battle against abdominal fat!

So there you go... just another excuse to do what mom always told you and eat more broccoli!

 

07/25/10 – It's been a while since I've checked in with you – 8 days, actually but I'm going to keep you updated till I finish up my boot camp now! Wow, only 3 days now left till I leave for Hawaii! I'm so excited! I've been doing pretty well with my personal Bikini Body Boot Camp even though there have been some challenges, mainly with eating. July is a Birthday month in my family, there are three birthdays including mine, my son's and my sisters and we've had lots of celebrating, with lots of delicious food! I really love to eat and I feel that food is one of life's greatest pleasures and that you should enjoy it – and I have! As I said in one of my earlier posts, I follow the 85/15 rule. Meaning 85% of the time I eat really well and the other 15% of the time I eat whatever I want and other than a few exceptions I've managed to do that even with all the many temptations. For these last three days before I leave I am basically going to do just veggies, lean protein and a little fruit. This strategy will finish me strong and will allow all the lean muscle that I've been building to stand out.

6:30 am – coffee, water, banana while I read, meditate and do EFT

10:00 am – pea protein shake w/coconut milk, ground flax and blueberries

11:00 am – Fit Fast exertion and recovery cycles: 4 cycles on flat, 2 hill sprints; Fit to the Core w/extra body resistance moves

1:00 pm – large salad of mixed baby greens, tomatoes, cucs, avocados, steak, cashews w/olive oil and wine vinegar

4:30 pm – celery with almond butter

8:00 pm – slices of roast beef, hummus, carrot, red pepper, tomatoes, blue corn chips

9:30 pm – ½ cup vanilla ice cream w/fresh blueberries

10:30 pm – bed