Belly fat?

elisa123gal

As you workout and diet.. your clothes can make a difference. Wearing a dark solid color on top works well. Make sure your tops are not tight and go down past the waist. You can also layer that top with a blazer, jacket, or sweater to give a more sliming look. Also.. your pants.. make sure there is a flare at the bottom to balance a bigger top. Peg leg skinny jeans, unless worn with boots.. will make you look top heavy.

Tea_A_Holic

AnvilHead wrote: »

Tea_A_Holic wrote: »

Hi, as I have been to a dietitian for advice as I have tummy fat, both surrounding and inside, the dietitian has said to reduce wheat based carbs, IE 1 slice of bread at breakfast or high fibre cereal or 2 slices of bread at lunchtime. Also I have been told to reduce fats heavily, IE 1 tsp of fat at lunch or dinner and use fry-light if going to fry things and cut off all visible fat off meat.

Low fat spreads, mayonnaise's and so on will also help. The only exception to low fat would be healthy fat in oily fish like fresh salmon, fresh or tinned tuna in water or brine, sardines to name but a few.

The only way any of those things are going to help is if they help you maintain a caloric deficit. No food, exercise, supplement or magic spell selectively targets belly fat, or fat in any particular place on your body. As has been said over and over again in this thread, your fat distribution pattern is established by your genetics. When you lose weight, it will come off in accordance to how your genetics dictate you lose weight. There's nothing you can do to change that. Nothing. Ab-so-lutel-ly nothing. Your dietitian is unnecessarily complicating things for no good reason.

Fat is inert. It has no contractile properties (like a muscle does), it just lays there. It can't be exercised, it can't be "shredded" or "blasted" or "melted" or "zapped". When you exercise the muscles underneath the fat in a particular area of the body, you're exercising the muscles - not the fat itself. The fat is just laying there doing what fat does, which is being fat. As has been repeatedly said (in this thread and every other of the thousands of "belly fat" threads on MFP), the only way you'll lose fat is through a caloric deficit - and you'll lose it in the order your genetics dictate, and you can't change that. Keep at it and eventually your belly fat will come off, but there's no way to hurry the process along or make it go away there before everywhere else.

i agree with all you have said, having said that and as a diabetic with not only fat around the tummy area it is in between the organs too, I will follow a diabetic dietitians advice and so far it is working as the fat IS coming off