What theraphy can i use to get a flat tommy, my friends have been complaining about my fat, what can i do.?

Question

Recently, i notice that i increase in body weight, my tommy increases and my friends are complaining that am increasing in diet, that i should watch my weight which i did and saw no changes, i still continue to fat. i want to slim, what can i do.

Answer 1

On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

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

Both dieting and exercises are essential for losing weight. By dieting I mean that you should balance your daily food intake. Take only as much Carbohydrates and fats which you can burn in your daily acitivity. Each gram of Carbs and Proteins produces 4 Calories of energy while each gram of fat produces 9 calories. Take proteins in addition to carbs and fats because they are essential for building muscle mass. The best diet, in my opinion, would be milk, juices, fruits and vegetables for vitamins and minerals. And eggs, fish, chicken for proteins.

Isotonic or Weight training exercises are good for building muscle mass and toning up muscles but for losing weight a much better option is to do aerobic exercises. You can only perform 10, 20 or 50 repetitions of isotonic exercises while you can easily do aerobic exercises for half an hour or more. Secondly for losing weight, if you are hitting a particular area, it doesn’t mean that you’ll lose weight only there. When you start losing fat the process generally involves your entire body fat. Aerobic exercises are also good for your circulation, heart and respiration. The best aerobic exercises in my opinion are: running, cycling, swimming and brisk walk.

Answer 3

Your friends are saying that you are getting fat? Well I don't believe you can be if it's only a recent thing so you don't have to believe everything they say. If it bothers you then try some simple exercises just ten minutes before you go to bed, do some stretches first, then try ten sit ups, then do some more stretches. Tomorrow night you might want to increase it to fifteen sit ups, and so on. It won't take long and in six months your friends will be jealous of your lovely flat tum!

Answer 4

This is what worked for me. I did 200 minutes of cardio every week. I did planks and other abs exercises on alternate days. On training days, I did 5-10 minutes of cardio to warm up, then weight training, followed by more cardio.

Don't look at your scale as the be all and end all, but get a measuring tape to check your progress, and that will show more tangible results.

The good news is that for a lot of women, the waistline is the first to go!

Good luck!

Answer 5

Take Tommy out in the street and run over him a few times-then he will be flat. Then go hire a basic English grammar/spelling tutor.

Answer 6

Your friends are just Upset that you are better looking then them, just be happy with your own body, and don't worry. if you are 5 to 10 over your weight, Some ladies looks good with 5 to 10 over there weight.

Answer 7

I have the equal difficulty. My roommate may be very thin and does not have one ounce of fats on her. She is regularly complaning that she is consuming to so much and that she physical activities. I acquired so ill of listening to it. At first, I might simply forget about her and desire that she might quit speakme approximately it. Then she nonetheless might say that she demands to activity. I eventually advised her that I do not desire to listen to it anymore, if she thinks she is fats then she demands to activity. I am nice with my frame, yeah, I might love to reduce weight, however I am no longer strolling across the apartment announcing "i fairly must move to the fitness center". If I desired to visit the fitness center, I might. All you'll do is inform her that you do not desire to listen to it anymore. I additionally think that my roommate seeks concentration due to the fact that she will get plenty of concentration from men. She NEVER leaves the apartment with out makeup on and her hair performed. Before she comes out of the room, she places her makeup on. I listen her while she wakes up routinely, she does not even permit her roommates see the best way she fairly is, to me, that's insecure, and although she weighs not up to me, I suppose that I am larger than her and I might in no way desire her frame/persona. Hope this is helping, Good good fortune along with your obstacle!

Answer 8

I recomment the South beach Diet

http://www.southbeachdiet.com/index3.asp

Answer 9

try the southbeach diet there is a book on it with recipes and what and what not to eat. so many people have lost the weight. you dont have to do anything different except your eating habits. look for the book in book stores. trust me it works!!!!!

Answer 10

How to make my stomach flat
http://weightloss-tips-guide.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-make-my-stomach-flat.html