Belly fat-won't go away

I've quoted the best information thus far in this thread, plus any posts by the icybanana person.

Go on a long hike in the mountains. I'm pretty muscular, not a skinny distance runner. I went hiking for two weeks in the mountains on a famous trail. I did about 10-12 miles a day. At the end of the two weeks, I really did lose some belly fat. My abs were more defined.

thurston howell, III wrote:

go see a cosmetic surgeon. 2 hours and all your fat will be in a bucket. problem solved.

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It's called genetics. I have it too.

Did you watch the US Open Finals? Could Serena Williams ever look like a skinny white girl? No. But if those skinny white girls were in Africa, everyone would think they were ill.

In other words, accept your body (assuming you are healthy) the way it is.

This is a funny thread.

But there is probably a subdermal parasite that will crawl under your skin and eat the fat until it's gone. Fat is very high energy stuff and wherever there's food, there's generally something that evolved to eat it.

Key points:

No drinking beer, wine or booze

Don't eat or consume any calories after 7pm and don't eat breakfast until after 7am (12 hour+ fasting)

Vary your running workouts and include high intensity sessions

Lift weights, focus on the big lifts (squats, deadlifts, cleans)

Avoid bread and pasta generally

Avoid processed food entirely

Eat lots and lots of low density carbs (veggies)

Eat good fats daily (almonds, avacados)

Eat within half hour post exercise and fuel before and during intense or long sessions

Stick with it

1. Count calories - 1000 deficit

2. Lift weights 5 days a week - speeds up metabolism

3. Do this consistently for six months

These are the only things that work

Yes and No wrote:

1. Count calories - 1000 deficit

2. Lift weights 5 days a week - speeds up metabolism

3. Do this consistently for six months

These are the only things that work

^This. All this other insulin and cortisol stuff mentioned in this thread is nonsense.

Fat gain or loss is ONLY a matter of excess or deficit calories. Period. There are healthy ways to lose weight and unhealthy ways to lose weight, but calorie deficit is how you lose weight.

3500 to lose a pound of FAT, so 500 a day to lose a pound a week, 1000 a day to lose 2 pounds a week. Unless you are more than 100 pounds over weight, you don't need to lose more than 2 pounds a week. You want to be healthy, then eat a healthy diet. You want to also be FIT, then exercise in there also. You want to have muscles too, then lift weights. There is no magic. There is no secret. There is no complex way to go about it.

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Still common

It will go away with consistent activity. Sedentary lifesyles, bad foods like alcohol or weird stuff can lead to results like this.

Caloric deficient diet. That's it.

I’m a retired runner and scientist who had similar issues with belly fat that drove me crazy for a while. I found out through listening, reading. and experimentation that it isn’t that hard for me to lose weight, specifically in the belly region. I just eat healthy (low glycemic index foods) and walk an average of 12000 steps/day. If I walk less than that my belly fat slowly returns. I can then lose it again by walking more than that.

If I average 10000 steps, my weight increases by about 1 lb/month. If I average 14000 steps, my weight drops by 1 lb/ month. Another 2000 steps either weigh subtracts or adds another lb/mo. If you carry an Apple cell phone all the time it counts your steps automatically throughout the day and provides graphics that can be used to quickly quantify your own profile if you track your weight at the same time.

I used to be pretty thin but saw my weight quickly increase when a bout with cancer followed by chronic injury caused me to give up running. The discipline I learned from running translated well to walking. It takes more time than running - but doesn’t require a clothing change or shower.

Just eat less.

2k steps is a little over one mile, 1 lb of fat is a little over 3500 calories, works out well! Appetite and consumption increase slightly as step count does, but not enough to attenuate fat loss

Stop drinking alcohol and beer and eat less sugar. Go Vegan and start lifting weights and you will see the difference.

Eat nothing but meat for two weeks.

I'll do a really hard workout, 90 minute run. Or intervals. Then I'll fast for 6 or 7 hours after the workout. I won't eat till dinner.

This is horrendous for recovery and running performance, but it helps me drop weight. I can drop 10 pounds pretty fast doing this. Now a lot of that is water weight, but you have to kick start the process somewhere.