How do i get rid of my stomach pooch?

Question

I do crunches and sit ups but nothing it getting rid of it. and NO surgery is not an answer lol

Answer 1

For all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


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

Hi--I am a trainer, and of course I am asked this question quite often. I dont' know more about you--if you've had babies, etc. But.....
1. This can be the result of body fat, which only comes off an area based on your bodies own makeup, so it could be last. Radical weight loss usually results in later radical weight gain. Take it slow.
2. Muscle development of this area is accomplished thru REVERSE CRUNCHES, which primarily engage the lower part of the abs, versus traditional crunches which engage more the upper area. Lay on your back, legs over a 45 cm ball, and tighten the abdominal wall and bring your knees toward you while squeezing the ball with your legs. Or hold legs perpendicular to the floor, squeeze the muscles, and raise your hips very slightly off the floor. (any further, and you aren't using the abs)
3. You may have digestion issues/ flora imbalance and are bloated. So you can try laying off wheat and dairy, as well as refined sugar, for a month or so. You will probably lose weight, and have less bloating. and tummy will be flatter. GOOD LUCK

Answer 3

Yes without Dieting...
Just live on Moderate quantuty Diet whatever u prefer and Sincerely do the exercise i am giving u

U have to step up and down 3 floors of ur building in morning for 6-8 time in a single go .. but remember dont walk on steps literally RUN on floors dont fall. It will bring sweat a lot to u but this is good sign u can reduce 5 kgs in a week and u can strech up the exercise as ur stamina.. but be regular

give me treat wen u reduce

Answer 4

Everyone has Abs of Steel... but they are hidden behind that layer of fat! So, situps will help, but they won't get rid of that fat layer.

If you go on a radical diet, then you'll get rid of much of it. Sadly, in women, the boobs go first in a diet, and the tummy and thighs go last. God has a warped sense of humor....

The problem for many women is that the skin that houses the "pouch" has stretched, and it won't spring back if you lose the weight. That is why tummy tucks are so popular. I have a friend who has lost 150 pounds so far (50%!) and she's covered in saggy skin that will need to be tucked someday.

Answer 5

You have to eat healthly, exercise, and lose fat. You can't spot loose fat. You can do 500 crunches a day, but if you have 20% bodyfat, you will never get rid of your pooch.

Answer 6

Hi,, try weights then and walking with the crunches and sit ups,,,, and are you sure you are doing them correct.... ?

good luck

Answer 7

Crunches. Lots of crunches.

Answer 8

Pilates. It's all about keeping your "core" engaged.

Answer 9

keep trying something like that doesn't happen over night