whats the quickest way of losing weight around the stomach area?

Question

i jog,swim even play tennis every week & nothings happening,my diet aint to great but its ok!

Answer 1

These are thoughts from my 360 Blog September 10.


There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

You cannot lose weight around the belly without combining diet and exercise. Do one without the other and you are not going to get anywhere.

Think about it if we lost weight in the areas where we work the muscles the most all the chronic gum chewers would have really skinny faces. :)

Answer 3

I have the same exact problem...flubber in the front stomache area jiggling around like Jello...what i did was 400 sit-ups and 200 crunches 2 hours worth of treadmill, 1 hour swimming and 2 hours of jogging and sweety i lost tht fat in less then 3 weeks..it seems like a lot..heck it was a lot but it was sooo worth it!

Answer 4

The answer lies in food consumed vs energy used. Try sit ups.Count calories but only for the purpose of how many taken in per day. Make it a fun thing like just to find out. Then increase water and fiber. I hope that helps....To lessen my belly, I went at least five miles a day and water and calories counted, pushed vegetables and fruit.

Answer 5

Well a quick, somewhat unhealthy way to lose belly fat would be to cut back or quit eating carbohydrates. Do you strength train? Try working your abs more. The problem is that fat placement is genetic and it will therefore be the hardest to lose this fat, but if you work at it, you will succeed.

Answer 6

OK,,,first you got to lay down and then lift your legs off the ground about six inches then tuck your stomach in and put your head up....then lift your legs up and down from 90 degrease to 45 degrease ..... do this for about 30 min. between each meal 3 times each.

Answer 7

aerobic exercise is the only way to lose weight. Burning more calories than you take in. There is no easy way around it.

Answer 8

beware of hidden sugars

Answer 9

45 minute breaststroke swim

Answer 10

stand while styling your hair and putting on makeup