Can't seem to rid of stomach fat. HELP!!?

Question

I'm on a very strict diet, working with a nutritionalist. It is working great! I go to the gym 4-5 days/week, alternating cardio/weights. My stomach fluctuates. One day it's at --", the next it goes up. I never see it continually go down. I do crunches 3x/week, walk the treadmill, my sugar intake is next to zero. What is going on? I'm afraid to ask my nutritionalist, he might think I'm cheating. I only see him 1x/month anyway. I drink tons of green tea, what else do I have to do to see the inches go down?

noehaven--thanks for reply, here is my diet:

913 calories
127 grams protein
10 grams fat
56 grams starches
34 grams fiberous
5 meals/day
I have cheated here-and-there, I crave sweets, so I buy these "no sugar added" candies. I mentioned to Carl my dilemna, he wants me back in to take stats and possibly change my diet. I am just too stubborn to see him, $$ each time. I know it begins with me and discipline, I know--quit whining!! I know I need to see him!!

Answer 1

You sound very motivated. Here are some suggestions.


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

I guess the best advice anyone can give is always to listen to your doctor or seek a second opinion from a doctor if you're not happy with the advice you're getting. I like what I saw from everyone else. The message is stick with the program. It take time for your an exercise to program to result in weight loss. I also think you not be eating enough. As long as you're eating healthy and a frequent number of relatively small meals (avoid starving it puts your body in survival mode and slows down your metabolism).
- Also you have to look at the cardio. Walking isn't going to cut it. You need somethin higher impact such as aerobics, jogging, ellipitical. Make sure that hit at least 30 minutes 3x a wek.
- You're body is a machine you'll lose weight and more important you'll feel good about doing it.

Answer 3

Let me ask you a question... You've hired a nutritionist and you won't ask him questions ?

Let me see where to start here... If you're working out and eating healthy, then your body will change and adapt, and you'll lose the fat around your stomach.

Are you eating enough protein ?

How long have you been on this program ? It takes time for fat to dissolve and be burned off, one pound of fat is roughly 3,500 calories.

You're a woman, so your weight will always flunctuate. Your stomach will be at different inches are different times of the day, and at different times of the month. Get my drift ?

When you're bloated, you're holding more water, meaning you don't gain FAT you're just looking at a slightly bigger number on the scale for a few days because of water, and your stomach will become slightly larger, probably not even noticable.

If you eat a lot of fiber, the fiber will expand your stomach temporarity, making you look bloated and feel heavier.

Focus on your program, and ask your nutritionist any questions, that's what they are THERE FOR.

Good luck !

Answer 4

1. Getting a trainer 2. Push up

Answer 5

WELL DON'T KNOW HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN DOING THIS BUT I WOULD START BY LIMITING HOW MUCH SALT OR SODIUM THAT YOU CONSUME IN A DAY TALK TO YOUR NUTRITIONIST YOU MAY BE RETAINING SOME WATER YOU MAY NEED TO START TAKING SOME WATER PILLS AND POTASSIUM ALSO I WOULD TAKE A GOOD VITAMIN DAILY.

Answer 6

Try some exercises and more on this site to help you get rid of it and more

Answer 7

do ab exercises with weights. It might be due to no resistance on your abs.

Answer 8

well i only tell you , please don't tell any one else.

drink honey with lemon. i hope it would work for u , becuase it woked for me.