Stubborn lower belly!!

brittanydubya2015

I aim to eat around 1550 calories a day and burn at least 500 active calories. I am a female, 5’7, and weigh about 140 lbs (threw out my scale because I was becoming to consumed with the number). I have a baby 2 pack starting to show (on some days) but am still having issues with my lower belly under my belly button. I just started using an L-carnitine supplement recently. Any tips?

autumnblade75

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat/p1

arsoria24

I’m a male, but have had the same issue. The belly is the hardest area to lose the extra weight. Each person is different, but what ended up helping me was eating food with less sugar and doing interval type cardio training, 30 minutes of switching between high and low intensity training. Message me if you need ideas on the type of interval cardio I do 👍🏾

AnvilHead

You can't spot reduce from any particular area of your body. How you gain and lose fat is determined by your genetics and no food, supplement, diet or exercise is going to change that.

Unfortunately, for many of us, the lower abdomen will be the last and most stubborn place to lose it from - but nothing will selectively reduce it from there or make you lose it any faster.

apullum

Is your 1550 calories including eating back at least a portion of your exercise calories? Or are you eating 1550 and burning 500? If you are not eating back any exercise calories, then you are only getting net 1050 calories per day, which is undereating. In addition, you are in a normal BMI range for your height. I would strongly recommend looking into recomp to reduce fat and build muscle, rather than trying to lose weight.

TrishSeren

A l-carnitine supplement isn't going to help. As you can see from this handy diagram, supplements aren't important for fat loss.




Also, the does this uterus make me look fat thread is 100% worth a read.

TavistockToad

brittanydubya2015 wrote: »

I aim to eat around 1550 calories a day and burn at least 500 active calories. I am a female, 5’7, and weigh about 140 lbs (threw out my scale because I was becoming to consumed with the number). I have a baby 2 pack starting to show (on some days) but am still having issues with my lower belly under my belly button. I just started using an L-carnitine supplement recently. Any tips?

whats your current training programme?

thisPGHlife

autumnblade75 wrote: »

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat/p1

This. Many women will never have a totally flat stomach and the amount of work to get the flat stomach is takes a hot minute. Not saying that you wouldn't put in the work but A. Partly that's your uterus and B. Partly that's the fat to protect your uterus.

I would definitely read that thread. Also, if you still really want to work on a flatter stomach, since you're within your healthy weight range, maybe look at doing recomp. Wish I could give more advice on that but since I'm still working in weight loss I haven't started looking into it more than superficially.

Good luck.

quiksylver296

This article lays out your options...

https://www.precisionnutrition.com/cost-of-getting-lean

kristela_cedillo

Did you check yourself for a diastasis recti? That is gap created for the pregnancy, sometimes the muscle remains opened after the pregnancy or it doesn’t closed correctly, that depends on every body just lucky I guess, but for more information you can google it, you can do some specifics exercises to try to close that gap, is not easy though, but you can do something is like the stretch marks, I’m a mom too.