Looking younger and feeling more attractive is hard work. By now you seen and heard every 'snake oil' claim on how you can effortlessly lose stomach fat and instantly create a curvaceous, sexy, younger looking new you. Reality check says that "if it sounds too easy, then it's unlikely to be true" for you. Body weight, self esteem, staying attractive, improving your body image is all about focus, stick-with-it discipline, a smidgeon of circumstance and good luck, plus some qualified decisions as to where you commit your limited time to creating a flat tummy.

Option #1: Go Natural. The 'natural' option may be the toughest, but potentially the most beneficial strategy to consider, depending on 'what you're working with' in terms of your current female body shape, location and amount of spare body fat and sagging skin contributing to your big stomach blues.

Going natural means like-Nature so body boot camp programs to burn off stomach fat take you into the jump-dance-sweat side of reshaping your body. Face it. Most people have left their bodies to one side, and pursued active home and career lifestyles, forgetful that you'll pay a price if you either abuse or ignore your body.

Family genetics, a rushing lifestyle of one too many snacks, insufficient rest, taking in more calories than you burn off because you "don't have enough time" only delays the inevitable, which finds you looking abjectly into your mirror and a lumpy out-sized person stares back. It's you, but what to do?

Pure exercise-based body sculpting means you'll be in a gym, out on a track, riding a bike, swimming, lifting weights in supervised or self-directed programs. Reality check shows that less than 20% of people can sustain these guts-and-blood training modes very long. Result? You relapse...weight pours back onto your tummy and love handles...you're back to where you started.

For beginners, fun workout alternatives based on artful combinations of sweat-and-strength include Yoga Booty Ballet which mixes up dance, stretching, meditation, yoga and ballet to focus on your abs, inner thighs, big belly.

Option #2: Supervised Non Invasive Medical Intervention. Scientists believe that your body starts out more or less with a finite number of fat cells. Lighter and less complex than surrounding connective tissue, nerve fiber and bone, these fat cells expand their size and aggregate in layers and mounds. Why? Body fat is an evolutionary response to protect internal organs, to shield the loss of body heat, in order to promote survival. All good stuff for a biology exam, but what about getting a date for Friday night? When a fat stomach and love handles and saddle bag thighs results in the accumulation of 20 to 50 pounds of doughy fat, then 'evolution' is no longer the factor that's on your mind.

Over-fed, living in a gadget-intense culture and oblivious to the use-it-or-lose-it rule for body health, young kids and many adults cannot comfortably rely on boot camp style exercise programs. The work is too hard. It takes too much time. Fortunately, space age technologies are moving into the body sculpting field, now offering you medically supervised low impact, minimally invasive techniques to reduce body fat. Here's some high tech "lunch time" convenient ideas to help you move quickly and safely towards a flatter tummy:

* Injectable Fat Dissolvers. In the past 15 to 20 years European and American cosmetic specialists have refined techniques while improving results for low impact fat removal. Here's how it works. A soy plant based formulation mixed with mild FDA approved medications is injected into a local area, such as a fat stomach or love handles. Absorbing the solution, fat cells swell up, then harden, followed by breaking down where the tummy fat cells collapse and become expelled naturally by your body. These fat dissolvers require multiple treatments, and the results become truly noticeable after several months.

* Radio Frequency And Ultrasound Body Fat Devices. Not even Albert Einstein could've predicted that 20th century leading edge physics would harness radio and ultrasound wavelengths as a delivery device for 'zapping' fat cells in overweight people. Whowuddthunk? The technology, very cool and highly effective, focuses a narrow wavelength of energy just below your skin surface, down to the level where your fat cells happily hang out. Shocked by the sudden presence of this alien energy, fat cells absorb the energy (unlike nearby tissue, bone and nerves which simply reflect the energy) and quickly fall apart, to be carefully suctioned out. Two pounds of 'spare' fat can be harvested in this form of medical intervention.

Option #3: The Gold Standard: Medical Liposuction For A Flat Tummy. The most popular, and the most in-your-face dramatically effective technique when dealing with a fat stomach will be liposuction. To qualify, you'll need a thorough health screening. You should not be morbidly obese, nor saddled with any underlying health problem in order to qualify for surgical liposuction. However, if you want to lose up to 9 pounds from a single treatment site in one session, then you'll definitely lose stomach fat with liposuction.