You really don’t need to punish yourself with a strict diet and hard core workouts to reduce your waist when there are ways to get rid of that belly flab without having to resort to ineffective haphazard workouts or carelessly depriving yourself of food.
Consuming six small meals throughout the day, increases your metabolism which in turn body burn fat easily while starving yourself and staying hungry for long hours just makes the body unable to shed off the belly fat since it is needed to burn up fat as energy.
Too many sweets encourages the body to produce more insulin which in turn stores glucose, majorly in the belly region. Avoiding sugar help prevents this from happening.
Consuming food when we one is stressed is not a good thing as cortisol released during stress causes the fat to accumulate around the stomach which may again lead to Diabetes. For this, regular cardio exercises and a good 8-10 hours of sleep will help in reducing the belly fat.