Belly fat help

arditarose

This thread is attracting some interesting things. What is happening?! Is it the internet broken?

PrizePopple

arditarose wrote: »

This thread is attracting some interesting things. What is happening?! Is it the internet broken?

I needed something to eat my popcorn with anyhow.

arditarose

PrizePopple wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

This thread is attracting some interesting things. What is happening?! Is it the internet broken?

I needed something to eat my popcorn with anyhow.

Right? Too bad I just finished my evening snack.

arussell134

Just want to reinforce what others have said as well as throw some encouragement your way. Up until recently, I honestly thought the only way to get my pregnancy pooch gone was surgery. I have had 2 C-sections and truly believed that exercise would only go so far. I think it was seriously last week I realized - it's GONE. I don't need surgery. It really was about eating less, moving more, and getting really close to my weight loss goal (I'm just a pound away at this point).

I know if can be discouraging if you've got a ways to go - but take things slow and steady, incorporate weight training and cardio for fat burn and yes, eat a deficit and be patient. Did I mention patience? Good luck!

malibu927

thornborrow193 wrote: »

I am lost.
So I use 1460 and eat 1460 but them I burn 200 calls so really I only ate 1260? Do I eat back the 200 I used?

I have a hard time getting to 1200 cals, with the smarter food choices but I don't want to fill up on empty calories just to eat.

Start with the food scale first. You'll see how much an actual serving is and be amazed.

For eating to 1460, calorie dense foods do the trick. Peanut butter is 200-250 calories for a serving, if you aren't allergic. Any kind of nuts, avocados, full fat dairy will help you out.

ThePhoenixIsRising

coasterphile wrote: »

Make sure your calories are quality calories. Record what you eat on this app, and look to make sure you are getting ideal amounts of protein, not just carbs. When you eat to many carbs for your body to use, your body stores these. The first place it generally shows up is the belly, hence a belly fat problem. Go with lean proteins and lots of veg! There are 3 types of calories. Carbs, proteins, and fats. Get a good, proper balance of them. The MFP app guides you to the proper numbers.

She is in a cal deficit, she could eat all her cals as carbs and not store fat, because by definition she is still taking in less cals than her body is using!

Aemely

I can attest that weight loss comes with associated reduction of belly poochiness. Yey!!

Use MyFitnessPal (MFP) to log calories consumed (food) and calories burned (exercise). If you set your activity level to Sedentary, log any intentional exercise. I don't log every step with a FitBit, although some do. I eat back most of my exercise calories, but not all. Example: When MFP says I have 1250 cals. today and I burn 200 cals. through exercise, I can consume 1250+200 or 1450 cals. and still lose at my desired rate (.5-1 lb. per week). So far, it's working! Some days I go a bit over (yes, it's true), some days a bit under. I find this evens out.

How to Change your Goals: Click Goals > Change Goals > Guided, Continue, enter in your accurate information and realistic goal weight, and click Update Profile. MFP will give you good information on how many calories you should eat each day to safely lose weight. You can lose weight without feeling like you are starving all the time. I promise! Good luck!

Direct Link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/my_goals
BMI Calculator: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmi-calculator
BMR Calculator: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

MeanderingMammal

thornborrow193 wrote: »

MFP said 1460, I am aiming for 1200

So eat 1460 and eat back what you burn in exercise. That's how MFP works

MeanderingMammal

arditarose wrote: »

This thread is attracting some interesting things. What is happening?! Is it the internet broken?

I think GD&WL is leaking woo. Gods there is some nonsense in this thread

kyta32

According to Wikipedia and NCBI, studies have shown that consumption of dairy and fruit is associated with better waist-hip ratios (i.e. less belly fat). Also, dieters given two servings of whole-grain ready-to-eat oat cereal had greater waist reductions than dieters not given the whole-grain cereal, even though weight loss was the same for both groups. Overall conclusions: dairy (with fat), fruit, and whole grains lead to less belly fat; white bread, fast food, soda, and red meat lead to more.

logg1e

arussell134 wrote: »

Just want to reinforce what others have said as well as throw some encouragement your way. Up until recently, I honestly thought the only way to get my pregnancy pooch gone was surgery. I have had 2 C-sections and truly believed that exercise would only go so far. I think it was seriously last week I realized - it's GONE. I don't need surgery. It really was about eating less, moving more, and getting really close to my weight loss goal (I'm just a pound away at this point).

I know if can be discouraging if you've got a ways to go - but take things slow and steady, incorporate weight training and cardio for fat burn and yes, eat a deficit and be patient. Did I mention patience? Good luck!

That's a lovely post Arussell

sloseph

if you go go to the Goals tab at the top of your screen it should help explain the hole calorie deficit a bit better for you but i'll try and help using my info as an example

i'm currently trying to lose 1lb a week, at 13st10 My Fitness Pal (MFP) has worked out that i need to eat 500 calories less than i burn to do so

so my normal daily calorie intake to stay at my current weight it 2,230, if i were to eat just that, no more and no less i would stay at my current weight of 13st 10lbs

so because i need to eat 500 calories less than that to lose 1lb a week my actually daily allowance is 1,730

there for MFP set my daily allowance to 1730 calories automatically

does that make sense?