whats the quickest way to loose a pot belly?

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

Look, lots of people will tell you to eat less and exercise more. It's true that doing that will get rid of fat but it's not fast.

Secondly, some think that doing exercises that target that area (e.g. crunches) will help. Actually, you can't target fat lost. We all lose at different rates from different parts of our bodies. I have a friend who loses easily from her midsection but she can't lose off her behind or thighs. If you are genetically programmed to keep fat on your stomach, all the crunches in the world won't help.

Thirdly, some people have big guts because they're, literally, full of sh*t. If your colon is full of crud, then your stomach will stick out. I have 2 friends doing a colon cleansing program called COLONIX from Dr. Natura's website and they've both lost inches off their midsections because they suffered from constipation and didn't think they did but, hey, now that their guts are going down with this colon cleaner, they're believers.

Fourthly, if you don't consume enough calcium then your body tends to store fat in your midsection. I read that somewhere like a year ago and increased my calcium and, without changing anything else, yes, I am slowly but surely reducing my stomach.

Fifth, stress and cortisol, a stress hormone, make people store fat in their stomach areas. There are companies that sell stuff like RELACORE to block the cortisol. Didn't do a thing for me.

There's a yahoogroup to discuss this issue:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Die_Hard_Lard/

Answer 3

Surprisingly I discovered Pot Bellies are caused by stress.
Lessen the stress in your life and your belly will lessen too.

Its also caused by bad diets, and insufficient food. See the Starving African kids..they have pot bellies.

The third way is to stop drinking beer..the Aussie with a pot belly is usually the beer drinker who watches TV for his exercise

Answer 4

If it's a pot bellied pig, take it to a local supermarket, wait till it is stunned by the site of the meat counter and then run around the corner.

Answer 5

Use diets that have much less energy and workouts that concentration on the pot abdomen. you will earnings lots extra power and stamina once you do. And the ladies(or adult men) will love ya back^.^ P.S.: Scientists proves that beers do no longer certainly get you fat. it quite is the ingredients and nasty conduct you devour that make your abdomen enormous.

Answer 6

There is no quick way, but the best one is at least 30 minutes of cardio per day, 3 days per week. When you have lost the blubber, you can start working on your six pack by doing sit-ups and the like.

Answer 7

First consult your doctor before taking up any exercise.Eat grilled fish,chicken,lots of fruit and veg.What my man did was so simple,but worked.He,every night ran up and down the stairs 12 times.Then when some flab came off he went jogging.Or you could join a gym.The weight will fall off you if you eat healthily and exercise.Drink as much water as possible.It fills you up and takes the edge of wanting to eat lots.

Answer 8

Seriously, if you drink soda...stop and replace it with water. Do that and also eat healthy food and healthy portions. That all worked for me and in two months I lost my pot belly and almost lost my love handles. :)

Answer 9

The plank :

http://exercise.about.com/od/abs/ss/abexercises_10.htm

Answer 10

a pot bell pig ?

Open the gate !