5 Daily Must Dos For Flat Abs

For flatter abs, remember to eat breakfast. Your first meal will help jumpstart your fat-melting metabolism, and eating a healthy breakfast will also prevent you from making bad midmorning decisions that involve donuts. If you're already feeling bloated, sometimes of dairy are often a common culprit; cut it out of your breakfast with these healthy, de-bloating, and dairy-free breakfast ideas.

Besides dairy, other types of foods commonly cause you to feel bloated — not ideal if you're looking for flat abs. When planning your meals, stay away from foods that cause bloat, like fatty or salty foods, soda, or certain types of fruits and vegetables, and instead opt for belly-shrinking foods like cucumbers, asparagus, and oatmeal. Find more de-bloating foods here.

Any exercise is good exercise, but if you want to melt fat fast it's time to get serious. High-intensity exercise burns calories the fastest, especially when it's in the form of intervals. Mix up your normal cardio workout with high-intensity intervals in between your normal pace; here's a 45-minute fat-blasting pyramid treadmill interval workout to print out and try today.