If you feel like any extra calories you eat go straight to your belly or thighs, you’re not imagining things. Those are usually the areas where you store fat because of your genes, hormones, age, lifestyle, and other factors. Your body tends to hoard calories as fat to keep you alive and safe. The challenge is learning how to reduce body fat. You hear a lot about fat-burning gimmicks such as working out in the fat-burning zone, spot reduction, and foods or supplements that supposedly burn more fat. Instead, learn how to burn fat through a variety of types of exercise. 1. Stay Off The Scale That you can gain muscle and lose fat is one of the reasons I stress…
