If you've tried everything to lose that extra weight and none of these fat loss diet plans work for you, then it's time to just get down to the basics. Everything you'll find here is common sense, but, sadly, most of the people building these diet plans have completely forgotten what the phrase "eat right and exercise" really means; so there's a LOT of misinformation out there regarding how to lose belly fat. Just follow these steps, and you should lose that extra weight in no time.

Drink More Water

You need to drink more water, simple as that. Cut back on sugary drinks, energy drinks, even coffee and tea if you put spoonful after spoonful of sugar in it. If you're reading a diet book that does not advise you to drink more water, then throw that book directly into the trash. You don't want to sell it to a used bookstore and risk someone else reading it. If you want more energy, if you want to improve your stamina, improve the quality of your hair, your skin, your teeth, if you want to gain muscle, lose weight, or just improve your digestion, water, water, water is the key to each and every form of fitness and health. Most people mistake feelings of thirst for hunger, so at the very least, you'll be less hungry.

Eat Well Rounded Meals

You do need protein, but when you hear about people eating all red meat and losing weight, the reason they're losing weight is because they're deliberately making themselves ill. They're deliberately putting their body out of whack to the point where they're actually starving themselves, despite loading up on protein. With the all protein and fat diet, what you're doing is blocking your intestines (not to mention your arteries) and overdosing on one nutrient while ignoring the others. If you're not following the food pyramid, you're not losing weight in a healthy way.

Exercise

There is no such thing as a healthy diet that allows you to get fat loss without exercise. There just plain isn't. Fat is extra energy, and without expending that extra energy, it's going to stay exactly where it is: On your stomach, in your hips, and all over your backside. If you're not exercising, you're not losing weight in a good, healthy, and safe way. You're losing muscle mass, sure. You're losing bone density and organ tissue, that's a given. But you're not burning fat unless you're actually BURNING that fat off.