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Im certainly not overweight but i cant get rid of my belly, I have strong abs but my six pack is not visible yet because of some fat covering the muscle. How can I get rid of it with diet and which exercises are good for this?

2007-04-21 17:58:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health Diet & Fitness

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you have to lose fat in general - you cant choose which body part you want to target.
find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
dont try to lose more than 1-2lbs a week - its not healthy to lose more.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have lean meat (protein) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min, light weight training
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, past etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried - no junk food.

2007-04-21 18:36:12 · answer #1 · answered by Natalie 7 · 0 0

I read somewhere that replacing protein from meat by soy could make you lose tummy fat, but I have no idea whether this is true. I am not convinced that there is no way to control where you lose fat from anyway, as some people say. When I lose (or put on) weight, it is always in different patterns, so there has to be ways for certain things, even if they are very subtle and we don't know yet how to ^ ^ Maybe try meditation and good stomach breathing or something, and very soft abs exercises... By the way, maybe an even more efficient thing would be to avoid foods that make you get tummy fat... I read that (for mwomen anyway...) saturated fats were stored around that area... I also know that it is good to have unsaturated fat after eating a lot of carbohydrates and proteins, because it allows the body to use them more intelligently and it prevents them to be turned into fat too quickly if the energy they provide is not used immediately. So you can, for example, have a tomato/cucumber with a lot of olive oil at the end of each meal to like, lower the impact of the high calory intake, and stabilize the energy supply, hence preventing the fat 'deposits'. Then soft, but long exercicing will help you burn the fat you do have. (Because then the body draws its energy from the fat stores rather than from what you have just eaten - so you can exercice longer, burning fat, and in the end still not feeling the need to eat and therefore risk to put the weight back on... ^ ^ )

2016-04-01 01:12:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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They are bad for you. Most of them are just a scam or they are addictive. Counting calories is a pain in the butt.  It will drive you nuts. But, losing weight is simple. You just have to do the right things. 
 Fad diets sometimes work but, you can be sure that at least 25% of the weight you lose will be muscle. Then when you stop the diet you will gain back all of the weight you lost but no muscle. So, you will have 25% more fat than you did before! Fad diets just
aren't worth the bother. 
 Fasting or skipping meals will teach your body that famine is about to happen and your body will begin to store more fat to get you through the next period when food is not available. 
 Here's a simple trick that can help you lose weight without doing anything else. Drink a litre of water as soon as you wake up in the morning and then drink two more throughout the day. You'll notice a difference the first month. 
 Here's a better way. For every pound of muscle that you add your body will burn 3000 calories (1lb) of fat every day. That means that just by having an extra pound of muscle on your body you will burn a pound of fat every day! So, add muscle! 
 This is the fastest way to add a pound of muscle. Squats and Pushups! You do them on alternate days; squats one day, pushups the next. And you do them SuperSlow style. That is, you do the easy part twice as slow as the hard part. That way you fatigue the muscles quickly. Then you rest the muscles for 48
hours which gives the body a chance to make new muscles.
Squats should be done with a wide stance and all the way to the floor. Pushups the with palms shoulder width apart and all the way to the floor, then all the way up. Use the full range of motion of the muscle group you are trying to develop.
The idea is to tire the muscles out completely so do a set of squats until you can't do another, then rest for a couple of minutes and do it again. Do that 3 times and you're done for the day. The following day, don't do squats but do pushups. Do them the same way,
go down twice as slow as you come up. 
 You will lose weight fast, unless you add more junk food and fat to your diet. Instead, eat at least 5 to 7 different raw vegetables and fruits every day. Cut out anything that comes in a bag or package. Cut out all processed foods, soft drinks and sweets. Eat more grains and less red meat. Check out the Food Pyramid.
 If you really want to give your body the best
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 Weight loss without exercise is not good. You need to eat healthy, exercise and get your rest. You will feel better, look better and be healthier. Try it for a week. You will notice a difference. You will feel better and that will motivate you to continue. 
 Losing weight only in specific areas of the body is impossible.  You can't just lose weight around the belly, for instance. 
 If you want tight, rippled abs, do crunches and leg raises every other day the way I described above. 
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2007-04-21 18:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Fats get deposited in your body in the following order. First abdomen, then hands, shoulders, thighs, etc etc and finally cheeks.(not exact order though, abdomen is first)
When you start burning your fats, you'll burn it in the reverse order. That is first the fats from your cheeks, then thighs, shoulders etc and finally it starts dissolving on your abdomen.
That is why it is very difficult to burn your abdomen fats. Most people give up exercises and diet before they reach the abdomen part.
So first start with usual stay fit exercises and at the end of every exercise finish with abdomen exercises.
Sleeping and lifting your both legs up, one after one leg up, keeping your both legs in float for some time, putting circles with your legs lifted while lying down, lifting your head with your hands holding your heads in lying down position are considered to exercise all parts of your abdomen. Don't eat extra after you complete your exercises, that would be the fine diet to follow.
All the best!

2007-04-21 18:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

My guess would be low fat diet and do sit up.

2007-04-21 18:08:42 · answer #5 · answered by cyberco 2 · 0 0

You can't make your body lose weight from a specific part of your body. It sucks, but its true.

2007-04-21 18:04:33 · answer #6 · answered by :) 1 · 0 0

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