It’s got to be the most stubborn weight to get rid of on your entire body and so the question asked by most men and many women is how to lose belly fat?

I know in my case, if I behave myself with diet I can typically shrink the waistline fat that wraps over your belt on the sides – that seems hard enough but the belly fat in front is something that seems almost as hard to get rid of as taxes!

Inevitably the question comes up when you ask how to lose belly fat, is the best way to exercise more on do you place more focus on diet?

Intuitively, we all jump to the diet solution given that we are bombarded daily with the diet program of the day, but is this really the most effective way to beat belly fat?

An interesting Boston.com article today outlined a small research study comparing diet and exercise effectiveness in weight loss with a special focus on how to lose belly fat.

Though the ultimate conclusion of the study was that either diet or exercise are equally beneficial to weight loss, there is some evidence to indicate that the stubborn belly fat taking root in your visceral stores is more responsive to exercise indicating that 1) Dieting alone may not be as effective as a diet and exercise program when tackling belly fat and 2) That it may be beneficial to put more emphasis on exercise – at least in the first month of your weight loss campaign if you are particularly focused on belly fat.

Having hit the big 40, suddenly the how to lose belly fat question has become one of my main focus areas – and although moderate exercise and paying attention to nutrition and diet principles has had some impact, I’m hoping that upping the length and intensity of my cardio workouts will once-and-for-all erase this stubborn belly fat.

What about you – anyone else find belly fat to be an especially hard area to see results?

Jeff