NHS-trained practitioner Joanna Karto explains what actually works for belly fat in Coventry and the UK — the biology, what the evidence says, and when clinical treatment helps.
Search cortisol belly fat and within about four seconds you will be told that stress is why your stomach will not shift, and that a capsule will fix it. During my research for this article, I went through the pages…
Call it a beer belly. Call it a dad bod. Call it a spare tyre. Whatever you call it, you have probably noticed it does not shift the way it used to. The same effort that worked at 25 barely…
Search for belly fat burners and you will find hundreds of products promising to melt fat from your midsection. You will also find plenty of articles ranking them, usually written by people paid a commission on every bottle sold. This…
Something changes, usually somewhere in your forties or fifties. You have not started eating differently. Your routine is broadly what it was. The scales say roughly what they have said for years. And yet your waistbands do not fit, and…
A study published in the International Journal of Obesity in 2026, drawing on 156,764 UK adults from the UK Biobank, found something worth pausing on. People who most closely followed the NHS Eatwell Guide, Britain’s own official healthy eating model,…
When clients ask me which exercises burn belly fat, they usually expect me to name an ab exercise. I never do, and it catches most people off guard the first time. Not because ab exercises are useless. They build a…
I get asked some version of this question almost every day. It comes from the woman who has been to the gym for six months. From the client who cut out sugar, stopped drinking, started cooking from scratch, walks 10,000…
You are doing everything right. You have changed what you eat, you are exercising, you have cut back on alcohol, and you are sleeping better. And your belly fat still looks exactly the same. Not only that, it feels different…
I’ve lost count of the number of times a client has sat down opposite me at J Artistry Clinic and said some version of the same thing. “Joanna, I’m eating well. I’m exercising. I’ve cut out the takeaways, I’m drinking…
