stomach fat

Lose weight and the stomach will go away.

It's really as simple as that. You can't target the weight loss.

You don't feel like crap if you eat less. You feel like crap if you eat too much less. Go weigh yourself right now. Start counting each and every calorie you consume for the next week and find the average you consume in a day. Then next week, aim for a little below that average each day. Weigh yourself at the end of the week. Repeat.

You say that you have a healthy diet which means nothing. Everyone's diet can be a little better. Find something in there to improve on and don't fall into the trap of thinking everything you're already doing is "good enough".

Will the weight go away once I start running regularly again? or will I have to cut back?

My experience, diet 80%, exercise 20%.

Many folks start working out again and start consuming more calories.

Okay, I know I need to lose weight to get the fat to go away. What I'm asking is HOW. Will just running more help it go away? Or do I need to decrease my intake? I'm vegan, but is there anything I should look to cut out to help lose the weight? Any other advice?

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Increasing my mileage always seems to give me more fat but that's at high mileage. If your at 30 mpw and go up to 45 mpw it could maybe help. Other than that i guess just cut a little intake, i didn't know vegans could even get fat.

jimmy fallow wrote:

My experience, diet 80%, exercise 20%.

Many folks start working out again and start consuming more calories.

In my experience, running does NOTHING for weight loss.

70% diet

15% weightlifting

10% sprinting

5% slogging

Eat healthy, run CONSISTENT high mileage and you'll become lean and mean.

Reduce the stress in your life. Belly fat comes from cortisol (stress hormone).

Despite what people think, higher mileage does not equate to less fat.

All through college, I was tested for body fat 3x a season. The two seasons I ran 100+ miles, my body fat was up 4-5%. After seeing the nutritionist, I was killing my body with not eating enough. Turns out I was deficient in protein needed for such mileage. I weighed 150 lbs at the time. After the nutritionists high protein diet, I gained 5 lbs of muscle mass, but lost 5 lbs of fat.

Most people I know at high mileage may look really lean, but their %body fat is higher due to the body's reaction to the high mileage: storing calories as fat.

Also, if mileage is supplemented with a poor diet, your body also burns muscle for fuel. Cannibalism of the muscles if a quick way to plateauing and over-training.

Best way to burn visible "chub" is lifting and moderate-fast runs. Basically anything that boosts your metabolism and makes your body to burn calories hours after working out.

I agree 100%.

This is where you're wrong. "Moderate-fast runs" is probably the worst you can do. Result: destroys muscle and leaves you hungry (and you will eat). Try sprinting instead. Result: you develop muscle (which boost your metabolism) and you don't have to binge eat afterwards because you're not hungry.

Again: Running long distances does NOTHING for weight loss.

XFit_guy_the_real_one_1 wrote:

Again: Running long distances does NOTHING for weight loss.

I know you're obviously trolling (like all your other posts), but this is a silly statement to make. Yes, the vast vast majority of the impact for weight loss (fat loss specifically) is through diet and not through exercise, and indeed there may be better exercises to do for fat loss; however, running long distances can absolutely affect and effect weight loss.

I got fat when I quit running. That usually goes hand-in-hand with eating worse foods. As a runner, I can't eat a lot of grease and must eat a balanced diet to feel better (although I eat more desert). In the end it's calories in vs. calories out. Hell I burned 1400 calories in this morning's 10 mile workout.

satt wrote:

I had an injury and gained a little weight. I used to have a flat stomach but now I have a little pooch. how do I get rid of this? I already have a healthy diet, but I don't want to cut back too much because I feel like crap when I eat less.

Happened to me too. In my case, partly it's because I had more time to think about and make more delicious food since I wasn't running. I'd try to eat a "little" less (didn't work out that way since yummy food was around more than usual) but didn't want to cut back a lot. The result was bigger belly. But now I'm getting back to running and w/ 2 40+ mile weeks, my belly is getting flat again. Will be running 50+ mpw for the coming few weeks!

There is a 49 year old in our running community who does nothing but run. Well, he works, but he had no other interests, no children and is a total jerk.

At a race last summer, he didn't too well and was passed the last 200 meters by a female Kenyan. At the awards banquet, he was pounding the table in frustration, saying how he was going to "train his brains out and pound her in the ground next year."

If he only saw the people laughing at him. What a joke.

been banned myself wrote:

There is a 49 year old in our running community who does nothing but run. Well, he works, but he had no other interests, no children and is a total jerk.

At a race last summer, he didn't too well and was passed the last 200 meters by a female Kenyan. At the awards banquet, he was pounding the table in frustration, saying how he was going to "train his brains out and pound her in the ground next year."

If he only saw the people laughing at him. What a joke.

WTF- totally off topic.

ataglance wrote:

WTF- totally off topic.

That's "teenage wasteland" having another one of his psychotic episodes.