text: Ofcourse you can't change fat into muscle, you need to lose the fat first. I'm not sure if there are any diets where you lose fat from your belly first except Jorge Cruise's 3-hour diet, because with that diet you eat every 3 hours which keeps your metablolism revved up. I quote Cruise, " In the New England journal of medicine, they published a study. In the study they specifically showed that eating every three hours reduced the stress hormone called cortisol. That's why belly fat goes down -- the reduction in cortisol. When you have high levels of this cortisol hormone, it's closely associated to abdominal fat. In this study it was shown that in as little as two weeks, individuals who ate frequent small meals, as opposed to three large meals, containing the same amount of calories, just breaking them down over time, over six meals versus three, they were able to reduce cortisol levels by more than 17%. That was just in the first two weeks -- it was wonderful. When you do this long term, the body gets efficient at staying low in cortisol level and that's what you want. That the how you stay slim and trim; with belly fat especially, it's all about removing the stress hormone cortisol. "\nCheck out the diet.. its actually very easy because you're never hungrey and you don't eliminate any kind of food.\n\nAfter you lose the fat fom your belly, you need to start doin excercises that target the belly area and thus build muscle.\nGood luck!