If you cannot afford to pay hundreds of dollars to join a gym, and if you cannot afford to buy expensive weight supplements and wonder formulas, you have to look for means to shed off belly fat at home without spending too much money.

In this article we shall be examining the following simple but yet effective steps to help you lose excessive body and belly fat at home:

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Step 1

Eat more of natural foods; keep off processed meats, fast junk foods, deep fried foods, whole fat dairy food products, pre-prepared baked foods and pastry based foods as much as possible. Let your diet be made up of only highly nutritious foods like lean meats, vegetables, fruits, fish, low fat dairy products, whole grains and beans (not canned beans!).

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Step 2

Avoid beverages that contain lots of sugar and calories; such beverages include soda, beer, wine, milkshakes, lattes, processed fruit juices, and flavoured coffees. You should cultivate the habit of drinking water in place of all these beverages so as to keep your body well hydrated without overloading your system with excessive calories; if you are a man, you should drink about 3.7 litres every day, and if you are a woman you should drink about 3.7 litres every day.

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Step 3

Make sure that you eat your last meal not less than two hours to the time that you go to bed. If you eat just before going to sleep, the last calories of food that you eat will be converted into useless body fat as you would not engage in any meaningful level of activity before you sleep.

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Step 4

Engage in interval running at least three times in a week; if you engage in good interval running, you will be able to burn more calories during and after you finish running.

You can start your running routine with a five to ten minutes light jogging. Then run as fast as you can for 20 seconds before you then taper down the intensity of your running to a moderate rate for 40 seconds. Repeat this routine over and over again for 45 minutes before you finally round up your session with a light jog for five minutes.

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Step 5

Engage in weight resistance training to tone and build up your muscles; if you can build up more muscles, you will be able to burn up more calories. Engage in different types of push ups, body lunges, chair dips, and bicycle crunches to build up more muscles.

Repeat these exercise routines three to four times at a time and combine them with your cardio exercises by performing them on the alternate days that you are not engaging in cardio exercises.

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Step 6

Eat smaller portions of foods more frequently; it is better to eat balanced small meals that contain protein and complex carbohydrates every two to three hours to help you maintain a high metabolic rate and reduce your level of food consumption.