Strength training is good for increasing muscle size, improving muscle strength, increasing bone mass and increasing strength in your ligaments and tendons. When exercising your muscles to increase your overall strength you will find that you will lose body fat not only over your whole body, but your stomach as well. Your stomach is one of the hardest places to lose fat, so if you concentrate on your overall strength of your body, instead of worrying about your stomach, you will find it easier to lose the belly fat that has stayed with you for so long.

The American diet is probably the enemy of anyone who wants to be healthier. Cakes, cookies, salad dressings and margarine contain trans fats. Trans fats basically help maintain a higher shelf  life of food products. Trans fats can be found in animal products naturally also.  Saturated and trans fats increase the rate of heart disease and raise the cholesterol levels. A good example of saturated fats are: butter, bacon and sausage.
Foods that are healthy can really change the way you think and feel.  Usually exercise can change your thought process and will influence the way you eat. When doing any type of training you will find that you will crave healthy foods, because all the work you are putting your time and effort into needs to be rewarded by feeding your body something it can build on. Eliminating the junk food is a first step and usually the easiest one to start.  Replace it with a healthier food item.
Break down your eating habits and stop eating three big meals a day. Try to eat five to six small meals instead. Changing your eating habits may change your metabolism therefore losing fat not just in your body but your belly as well.

Since your body needs to receive so many nutrients and it will be getting a more balanced diet, it will also need to get rid of a lot of toxins that your body stores. Years of abuse may take a little time to clean your system to get back to health. Yes, exercise will play a big part in this, but there are many other ways to include to detox your system. You can use wraps, juice detoxing, water detoxing, diet changes and even the popular colon cleanses.  There are many ways to clean and detoxify your body, some methods cost a little more and yet other methods will be at no cost to you. Mixing ad matching a colon cleanse with a simple diet change may help speed up the process more.

Stomach fat, belly fat or love handles. Whatever you want to call it, time and discipline is all that is needed and most importantly a desire to succeed and a desire for change to get your six pack.