There's more to belly fat than you realize. Aside from the obvious vanity concerns it causes, it's actually more dangerous than the fat that accumulates around the thighs and buttocks. In actuality, belly fat is only the beginning of a vicious and insidious cycle of detrimental affects on your over all health and well-being.

When you have belly fat it triggers the liver, this in turn releases fatty acids. Once those fatty acids are released your cholesterol level starts to increase. When you think about it, belly fat is stored energy. In order to lose this belly fat you need to burn more energy.

Belly fat can also be located deep within the abdomen and surround visceral organs, possibly impeding their function.

So you need to engage in certain training in order to burn more energy and not reach a plateau where the body becomes familiar with the routine and therefore starts to store the fat once again. One of the best training techniques to accomplish this is interval training.

Reason number two, having belly fat increases your risk of heart disease. Once again as your cholesterol levels increase there are many knock on effects which puts your health in danger. The worst of all is that visceral fat can be located deep in the abdomen which then surrounds your vital organs.

What it means it continually changing the length of time or frequency you exercise. For example, when you first begin an exercise regimen, running for 20 minutes may burn 500 calories. As you lose weight and your body begins to adjust to the run, you will burn fewer calories for the same amount of time you exercise. Twenty minutes of running will soon only burn 250 calories, and the remaining 250 calories will be stored as fat. By increasing the length of time or frequency you run during the week, however, you can ensure you continue to burn 500 calories.

As you can see, the constant struggle to lose belly fat is not a figment of your imagination. There are biological reasons for it being more difficult. However, that doesn't mean it's impossible.