Five Tips to Get Rid of Belly Fat

Analytics, Data Mining, targeting, optimization, all the tools that Facebook and other websites use to post ads specifically chosen for me keep sending me the same one ad –  “Five tips to get rid of belly fat.” Since I write a weight-loss comedy blog it is not much of a stretch to think that I might have belly fat, but what I really want is an ad to tell me how to tighten up sagging skin from weight loss.  Come on analytics figure out I have lost belly fat and have another problem.

I think the same advertiser has a companion ad for the “Five foods you should give up to get rid of belly fat.”  I guess that belly fat is so universally hated that it causes people to click on through.  Finally I clicked on the “Five tips” ad to see if I could quickly see what the information was.  Ha!  I was taken to a sight for the Trim Down Club and a thirty-minute presentation for their product.  It was like a time-share presentation without the vacation

As a public service I sat through the thirty-minute web-presentation to find out what the five foods you should never eat are; concentrated fruit juice, margarine, whole wheat bread, processed soy, and corn, especially genetically modified corn.

Here is what is amazing, I gave all those foods up years ago, and I have gone both up and down in weight the whole time I was not eating them.  There is no silver bullet to losing weight and no website that can give you the body you want.  I don’t know anyone who actually has the body they want.  Everyone I know wants to improve some part of himself or herself and advertisers know that.  That is why the “Five tips” ads are so popular.

I could make a list fairly easily of five foods you should never eat if you don’t want belly fat; donuts, a bloomin’ onion, corn dog, funnel cake and any other carb-loaded-deep-fried-carinval-food.  For men the list might be, beer, lager, ale, stout and beer.  Of course the carnival food rule applies to men too.

The bottom line is eat as many real, whole, non-processed foods as you can.  Eat a colorful plate of vegetables and protein.  Limit your carbs and cut out the processed sugar.  Remember the amount of food, even healthy food you eat counts.  Use a smaller plate or bowl and leave the kitchen.  It is hard to eat if you aren’t near the food.  I just saved you $47 for the Trim Down Club.  Consider this my free gift to you along with the thirty minutes you won’t have to spend to see what those five terrible foods in the ads are.