'I'm a fitness expert – cut this one item from your diet to torch belly fat fast'

A fitness expert has pinpointed one thing to cut from your diet when aiming to rapidly reduce belly fat.

Gerard Hall focuses on targeting the two types of body fat typically found around the stomach. Demonstrating against a photo of a round belly, he detailed a method to slim down the waistline by eliminating one item from your everyday diet.

He advises cutting out alcohol, and especially especially avoiding heavy "binge drinking" sessions, which will be especially useful for those with belly fat that hasn't become 'firm' yet. He explains: "If your belly looks anything like this, I'm gonna show you how to lose it."

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Gerard revealed: "So, we've got two types of fat that surround our midsection – subcutaneous fat, which is the outer layer, and then visceral fat, which surrounds all the organs."

He continues: "So again, if your belly looks anything like this, it's because you have too much visceral fat and that s**t starts to harden up and then you get a hard belly that becomes tough to poke. So here's how to lose it. Cut your alcohol consumption."

Subsequently, Gerard highlighted that drinking is "one of the worst things you can do to create visceral fat,” explaining that "Alcohol is super calorie dense and really easy to overdo," revealing why moderation or complete avoidance might be key to losing that stubborn fat.

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"It negatively impacts your hormones, like testosterone, and you're way more likely to make poor food choices when you're drinking. The body always breaks down alcohol before burning up your food, which basically stops all fat burning."

NHS guidelines recommend not exceeding 14 units of alcohol per week, emphasising that there is "no safe amount" of alcohol. Their advice states: "Units are a simple way of expressing the quantity of pure alcohol in a drink."

"One unit equals 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol, which is around the amount of alcohol the average adult can process in an hour. This means that within an hour there should be, in theory, little or no alcohol left in the blood of an adult, although this will vary from person to person."