Today we’re talking about how to lose excess weight in one particularly annoying place: your belly.

Or are we? Stick with me here as I reveal the secrets no one’s ever told you about how to lose belly fat.

First things first: losing belly fat isn’t exactly easy. If you’re prone to storing fat there, it will take dedication and discipline. But it is possible.

“It’s not been easy to find a healthy one of these, but after scouring the stores I finally did find it!”

Today I’m deviating from my normal stance of eating only whole foods. Okay, well I never said to eat only whole foods. That would be highly impractical and virtually impossible for all of us to put into practice.

While I still stand behind the idea that eating natural, unprocessed foods is one of the healthiest things we can do for our bodies, I get that we can’t do that all the time. We have appointments to make, meetings to attend, and other responsibilities that pull us away from the kitchen. To expect everyone to make all their food from scratch all the time is ridiculous.

So I’ve been on a mission to find healthy, store-bought sauces that I feel I can stand behind.

“Salt is like a sponge. When you have a lot of it in your body, it will draw more water to it and make you feel like an unhappy water balloon.”

There’s no doubt about it: sodium has gotten an extremely bad rap. And because of that, a LOT of people are starting to pay more attention to it. When I hear the word sodium, these are some things that come to mind:

• Bloating
• High blood pressure
• Heart disease