You can lose weight even if you sit and move! 4 tips to say goodbye to fat belly

With the arrival of spring, it is a good time to change into tight-fitting spring clothes, but the small belly that can be hidden under the coat in winter is nowhere to hide. Especially for office workers who stay in the office for a long time, it is easy to cause bloating due to sitting for a long time. If you don’t exercise regularly, fat will accumulate on your belly. If you want to get rid of the fat belly, in addition to controlling your diet, you can also use the 4 abdominal slimming exercises on the chair. In addition to helping to stretch your muscles during work breaks, it can also reduce the burden of fat on your belly.

If you want to have perfect abdominal lines, diet control combined with exercise is the only way. For office workers, you can also use a chair to do stretching exercises.

Chen Bofang, a nutritionist at the Zhongxiao branch of Taipei United Hospital, said that for office workers, to improve stomach bloating caused by sitting for a long time, they should avoid foods such as soda, beans, cabbage, broccoli, onions, garlic, and chewing gum. To deal with a fat belly, they need to pay attention to their sitting posture, sit upright with their backs against the chair, and remember to shrink their abdomen, which can better control the abdominal muscles and accelerate fat metabolism.

4 ways to slim your belly

Chen Shuli, a lifelong volunteer of the Tung Foundation and currently a yoga teacher, said that you can do these four stretching exercises while working on weekdays to help keep your stomach away from the threat of obesity!

Move 1: Sit on a chair, clasp your fingers together and turn your palms over, inhale and stretch upwards, slowly exhale to the left, inhale back to the center, then slowly exhale to the right, inhale back to the center, exhale and open and lower your hands.

Step 1: Sit on a chair, clasp your fingers together, turn your palms over, inhale and stretch upwards. (Photography by Huang Zilun)

Move 2: Sit on a chair, pull the left armrest of the chair with your right hand, push the back of the chair with your left hand, inhale to stretch your spine upward, exhale and turn your upper body to the left, inhale to return to the center; pull the right armrest of the chair with your left hand, push the back of the chair with your right hand, inhale to stretch your spine upward, exhale and turn your upper body to the right, inhale to return to the center.

Tip 2: Sit on a chair, pull the right armrest with your left hand, push the back of the chair with your right hand, and inhale to stretch your spine upward. (Photography by Huang Zilun)

Move 3: Sit on a chair, inhale and stretch your arms upward, lift your left leg parallel to the ground, push your heels forward, exhale and open your hands and lower them, lower your left leg, inhale and stretch your arms upward, lift your right leg parallel to the ground, push your heels forward, exhale and open your hands and lower them, lower your right leg.

Step 3: Sit on a chair, inhale and stretch your arms upward, raise your left leg parallel to the ground, and push your heels forward. (Photography by Huang Zilun)

Tip 4: Sit on a chair, put your feet together, back up, spine straight, fold your hands and stretch them forward. You will feel the rhythm of your abdominal muscles when you take a deep breath. Maintain 4 deep breaths, rest for a while and do it again, 4 times in a row.

Step 4: Push the chair by holding the armrests with both hands and stretch your back forward. (Photography by Huang Zilun)