Best way to lose belly fat?

JoeyFitness1718

What is the best way to strip your body fat?

mmapags

Calorie deficit. There are no exercises that target where you lose fat. Reducing body fat come down to diet and where you lose it will be driven by genetics primarily.

Cherimoose

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/43820202/#Comment_43820202

mmapags

Cherimoose wrote: »

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/43820202/#Comment_43820202

Lol! Yes the answer doesn't change no matter how many different ways one asks the question.

recowper

My belly fat is a beast but I am working to lose fat throughout my entire body through diet and exercise.... knowledge and persistence is key.

Kupla71

Belly fat. That is a beast for me too. My legs are strong and relatively slender but my waist! I will just keep at it with diet and exercise. It will be the last place I will lose fat. When my waist is trim I know I’m in great shape!

Makaiookami

The BEST way to lose belly fat? Simple. Get fat adapted on a low carb diet, very low carb. Not atkins low carb but closer to keto low carb.

Then fast for a couple days, eat plenty especially of protein and omega 3 fats on your eating days, and once a month or once a week fast for 2-3 days once you know how to fast for days.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21410865

Here's a study. What does the study say? Well people who calorie restricted, lost 25% of their lean muscle mass calorie restricting. Where as people who did extended fasts, lost 10% of their muscle mass. Even though they both lost a similar amount of weight, the fasting people lost 15% less muscle and more fat than the people calorie restricting.

You wanted the BEST way to strip your body of fat, especially belly fat. That's what it is. Use your fat as energy. Now other things you can do, cold exposure, ketogenic diet, make your own pre-workout, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mPCnmqpNc), and do HIIT early morning. I'm going to explain quickly what these are for.

Cold Exposure: Being cold long enough to shiver for a while pre-disposes your body to create more brown fat, and will sometimes mobilize fats to become brown fats surrounding your organs. Brown fat pills are considered the gold standard of theoretical weight loss if we can ever master that chemical signaling because it is inefficient fat that burns itself off, so if we can escalate that process, we can make weight loss in a pill actually safely reasonable. Theoretically.

Ketogenic diet: predisposes your body to reach towards your fat stores, avoiding carbs as a primary fuel source. Your body also tends to brown more fat. On top of this there are numerous pathways and dozens of studies showing that when people consume higher levels of fat, and lower levels of carbs they burn more throughout the day, no matter what controls are put in place on almost every study I've seen. A lot of people thought it was because protein macros were being messed with but there was one study in peticular that kept the protein the same for all the groups and the groups that had more fat in their diet just burned through more calories. The study was controlled weightloss aiming for 2 pounds per week, and so the people eating high fat macros had to get their calories increased to keep them from losing fat too quickly.

Tumeric: This can either help brown your fat, or it can also mobilize your fat for fat burning. Of course if you take a gatorade to the gym you'll just shut off all fat burning, end up relying on muscle glycogen and liver glycogen instead.

Pre-workout: The video explains it. The reason you don't want to buy off the shelf pre-workout for the IDEAL fat loss, is that sweet things might trigger more insulin spikes, and the last thing you want to do before going to the gym for fat loss.

Gym: I use this word as a catch all. If you are bedridden and can't get out of bed, your bed is your gym. Any time I used the word gym substitute it for what ever place is giving you your exercise.

HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training, if you can do this, the metabolic increase you get throughout the day is worth it. It just flat out improves fat burning. Just don't do too much HIIT because multiple rounds of it causes cortisol

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47242940

https://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/wellbeing/are-high-cortisol-levels-stopping-you-from-losing-weight/news-story/9d86b89ffa37e0945e330ed4c8e90b44

Also this bit

"Conversely, lowering your cortisol levels can help you achieve your weight loss goals. “Especially if you are following a low inflammation diet,” she says."

Ketogenic diets are low inflammation. You'll feel better if you focus on health. Keto is the healthiest diet I know of. Bar none. Don't get me started on anti-nutrients, oxolates, and other survival mechanisms that make largely plant based diets less bio available and healthy than say adding offal to a bio available fat and meat based diet.

Makaiookami

BTW in the past 2 years I've lost over 120 pounds. I've only been on Keto for 8 months. Keto diet has given me so much more energy and so much less pain, that I would gladly go back and do Keto retroactively for most of my life if I could.

I lose so much weight now in my 30s than I did in my teens and early 20s even though I was eating maintenance and working out on top of that. It's great to not ever have hypoglycemia. It's great to have energy levels from the moment I wake up, and not need breakfast. It's great to run off of fat, it's great to have my knee not be in pain because I"m eating low inflammation diet, that allows me to go to the gym.

Just because you can eat eat like crap like I did when I went from 360 pounds to 310 pounds, doesn't mean it was the right way. The trip from 310-240 on Keto has been so much better.

BrianSharpe

Makaiookami wrote: »

The BEST way to lose belly fat? Simple. Get fat adapted on a low carb diet, very low carb. Not atkins low carb but closer to keto low carb.

Then fast for a couple days, eat plenty especially of protein and omega 3 fats on your eating days, and once a month or once a week fast for 2-3 days once you know how to fast for days.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21410865

Here's a study. What does the study say? Well people who calorie restricted, lost 25% of their lean muscle mass calorie restricting. Where as people who did extended fasts, lost 10% of their muscle mass. Even though they both lost a similar amount of weight, the fasting people lost 15% less muscle and more fat than the people calorie restricting.

You wanted the BEST way to strip your body of fat, especially belly fat. That's what it is. Use your fat as energy. Now other things you can do, cold exposure, ketogenic diet, make your own pre-workout, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mPCnmqpNc), and do HIIT early morning. I'm going to explain quickly what these are for.

Cold Exposure: Being cold long enough to shiver for a while pre-disposes your body to create more brown fat, and will sometimes mobilize fats to become brown fats surrounding your organs. Brown fat pills are considered the gold standard of theoretical weight loss if we can ever master that chemical signaling because it is inefficient fat that burns itself off, so if we can escalate that process, we can make weight loss in a pill actually safely reasonable. Theoretically.

Ketogenic diet: predisposes your body to reach towards your fat stores, avoiding carbs as a primary fuel source. Your body also tends to brown more fat. On top of this there are numerous pathways and dozens of studies showing that when people consume higher levels of fat, and lower levels of carbs they burn more throughout the day, no matter what controls are put in place on almost every study I've seen. A lot of people thought it was because protein macros were being messed with but there was one study in peticular that kept the protein the same for all the groups and the groups that had more fat in their diet just burned through more calories. The study was controlled weightloss aiming for 2 pounds per week, and so the people eating high fat macros had to get their calories increased to keep them from losing fat too quickly.

Tumeric: This can either help brown your fat, or it can also mobilize your fat for fat burning. Of course if you take a gatorade to the gym you'll just shut off all fat burning, end up relying on muscle glycogen and liver glycogen instead.

Pre-workout: The video explains it. The reason you don't want to buy off the shelf pre-workout for the IDEAL fat loss, is that sweet things might trigger more insulin spikes, and the last thing you want to do before going to the gym for fat loss.

Gym: I use this word as a catch all. If you are bedridden and can't get out of bed, your bed is your gym. Any time I used the word gym substitute it for what ever place is giving you your exercise.

HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training, if you can do this, the metabolic increase you get throughout the day is worth it. It just flat out improves fat burning. Just don't do too much HIIT because multiple rounds of it causes cortisol

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47242940

https://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/wellbeing/are-high-cortisol-levels-stopping-you-from-losing-weight/news-story/9d86b89ffa37e0945e330ed4c8e90b44

Also this bit

"Conversely, lowering your cortisol levels can help you achieve your weight loss goals. “Especially if you are following a low inflammation diet,” she says."

Ketogenic diets are low inflammation. You'll feel better if you focus on health. Keto is the healthiest diet I know of. Bar none. Don't get me started on anti-nutrients, oxolates, and other survival mechanisms that make largely plant based diets less bio available and healthy than say adding offal to a bio available fat and meat based diet.

biggiwig4483

Calorie deficit.

psuLemon

Makaiookami wrote: »

The BEST way to lose belly fat? Simple. Get fat adapted on a low carb diet, very low carb. Not atkins low carb but closer to keto low carb.

Then fast for a couple days, eat plenty especially of protein and omega 3 fats on your eating days, and once a month or once a week fast for 2-3 days once you know how to fast for days.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21410865

Here's a study. What does the study say? Well people who calorie restricted, lost 25% of their lean muscle mass calorie restricting. Where as people who did extended fasts, lost 10% of their muscle mass. Even though they both lost a similar amount of weight, the fasting people lost 15% less muscle and more fat than the people calorie restricting.

You wanted the BEST way to strip your body of fat, especially belly fat. That's what it is. Use your fat as energy. Now other things you can do, cold exposure, ketogenic diet, make your own pre-workout, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mPCnmqpNc), and do HIIT early morning. I'm going to explain quickly what these are for.

Cold Exposure: Being cold long enough to shiver for a while pre-disposes your body to create more brown fat, and will sometimes mobilize fats to become brown fats surrounding your organs. Brown fat pills are considered the gold standard of theoretical weight loss if we can ever master that chemical signaling because it is inefficient fat that burns itself off, so if we can escalate that process, we can make weight loss in a pill actually safely reasonable. Theoretically.

Ketogenic diet: predisposes your body to reach towards your fat stores, avoiding carbs as a primary fuel source. Your body also tends to brown more fat. On top of this there are numerous pathways and dozens of studies showing that when people consume higher levels of fat, and lower levels of carbs they burn more throughout the day, no matter what controls are put in place on almost every study I've seen. A lot of people thought it was because protein macros were being messed with but there was one study in peticular that kept the protein the same for all the groups and the groups that had more fat in their diet just burned through more calories. The study was controlled weightloss aiming for 2 pounds per week, and so the people eating high fat macros had to get their calories increased to keep them from losing fat too quickly.

Tumeric: This can either help brown your fat, or it can also mobilize your fat for fat burning. Of course if you take a gatorade to the gym you'll just shut off all fat burning, end up relying on muscle glycogen and liver glycogen instead.

Pre-workout: The video explains it. The reason you don't want to buy off the shelf pre-workout for the IDEAL fat loss, is that sweet things might trigger more insulin spikes, and the last thing you want to do before going to the gym for fat loss.

Gym: I use this word as a catch all. If you are bedridden and can't get out of bed, your bed is your gym. Any time I used the word gym substitute it for what ever place is giving you your exercise.

HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training, if you can do this, the metabolic increase you get throughout the day is worth it. It just flat out improves fat burning. Just don't do too much HIIT because multiple rounds of it causes cortisol

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47242940

https://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/wellbeing/are-high-cortisol-levels-stopping-you-from-losing-weight/news-story/9d86b89ffa37e0945e330ed4c8e90b44

Also this bit

"Conversely, lowering your cortisol levels can help you achieve your weight loss goals. “Especially if you are following a low inflammation diet,” she says."

Ketogenic diets are low inflammation. You'll feel better if you focus on health. Keto is the healthiest diet I know of. Bar none. Don't get me started on anti-nutrients, oxolates, and other survival mechanisms that make largely plant based diets less bio available and healthy than say adding offal to a bio available fat and meat based diet.

You may want to consider reading the study:

Although the reason for this maintenance of lean mass is not clear, these preliminary findings suggest a preferential retention of fat free mass by intermittent restriction regimens when compared to daily restriction protocols. It is important to note, however, that comparing values for fat mass and fat free mass between studies is difficult as different techniques were employed to assess these parameters. More specifically, the majority of daily CR trials implemented dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DXA) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), while the majority of intermittent CR trials employed bioelectrical impedance analysis. It is well known that DXA and MRI are vastly more accurate techniques for the assessment of fat mass and fat free mass when compared to bioelectrical impedance analysis 33. Thus, the different methods employed could create variability when comparing findings between diets.

It should also be noted that there are only 4 human trails for IF, most of which have a participation rate of 8 people. And even moreso, there aren't any studies longer than 12 weeks as compared to the normal caloric restriction rate.


OP, Work on losing body fat and lift. Best way to improve body composition.

HermanLily

Abs are born in the kitchen

psuLemon

HermanLily wrote: »

Abs are born in the kitchen

This is only partially correct. It's certainly true that you need to lose body fat to get abs, but if those abs are never develop, you won't get abs. Below is a perfect demonstration of what I mean.

ninerbuff

Makaiookami wrote: »

The BEST way to lose belly fat? Simple. Get fat adapted on a low carb diet, very low carb. Not atkins low carb but closer to keto low carb.

Then fast for a couple days, eat plenty especially of protein and omega 3 fats on your eating days, and once a month or once a week fast for 2-3 days once you know how to fast for days.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21410865

Here's a study. What does the study say? Well people who calorie restricted, lost 25% of their lean muscle mass calorie restricting. Where as people who did extended fasts, lost 10% of their muscle mass. Even though they both lost a similar amount of weight, the fasting people lost 15% less muscle and more fat than the people calorie restricting.

You wanted the BEST way to strip your body of fat, especially belly fat. That's what it is. Use your fat as energy. Now other things you can do, cold exposure, ketogenic diet, make your own pre-workout, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mPCnmqpNc), and do HIIT early morning. I'm going to explain quickly what these are for.

Cold Exposure: Being cold long enough to shiver for a while pre-disposes your body to create more brown fat, and will sometimes mobilize fats to become brown fats surrounding your organs. Brown fat pills are considered the gold standard of theoretical weight loss if we can ever master that chemical signaling because it is inefficient fat that burns itself off, so if we can escalate that process, we can make weight loss in a pill actually safely reasonable. Theoretically.

Ketogenic diet: predisposes your body to reach towards your fat stores, avoiding carbs as a primary fuel source. Your body also tends to brown more fat. On top of this there are numerous pathways and dozens of studies showing that when people consume higher levels of fat, and lower levels of carbs they burn more throughout the day, no matter what controls are put in place on almost every study I've seen. A lot of people thought it was because protein macros were being messed with but there was one study in peticular that kept the protein the same for all the groups and the groups that had more fat in their diet just burned through more calories. The study was controlled weightloss aiming for 2 pounds per week, and so the people eating high fat macros had to get their calories increased to keep them from losing fat too quickly.

Tumeric: This can either help brown your fat, or it can also mobilize your fat for fat burning. Of course if you take a gatorade to the gym you'll just shut off all fat burning, end up relying on muscle glycogen and liver glycogen instead.

Pre-workout: The video explains it. The reason you don't want to buy off the shelf pre-workout for the IDEAL fat loss, is that sweet things might trigger more insulin spikes, and the last thing you want to do before going to the gym for fat loss.

Gym: I use this word as a catch all. If you are bedridden and can't get out of bed, your bed is your gym. Any time I used the word gym substitute it for what ever place is giving you your exercise.

HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training, if you can do this, the metabolic increase you get throughout the day is worth it. It just flat out improves fat burning. Just don't do too much HIIT because multiple rounds of it causes cortisol

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47242940

https://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/wellbeing/are-high-cortisol-levels-stopping-you-from-losing-weight/news-story/9d86b89ffa37e0945e330ed4c8e90b44

Also this bit

"Conversely, lowering your cortisol levels can help you achieve your weight loss goals. “Especially if you are following a low inflammation diet,” she says."

Ketogenic diets are low inflammation. You'll feel better if you focus on health. Keto is the healthiest diet I know of. Bar none. Don't get me started on anti-nutrients, oxolates, and other survival mechanisms that make largely plant based diets less bio available and healthy than say adding offal to a bio available fat and meat based diet.

Broscience at it's best.


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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

mfp4kc

If considering turmeric, a form that is hydro-soluble absorbs better.

estherdragonbat

Dogmom1978

If I had a dollar for everytime someone posted on mfp looking to spot reduce I could’ve retired at 35... 😂😂😂😂

B_Plus_Effort

Eat Less! then see if you have conflicting goals, are you strength training cause you play football for example or are you just trying to look good, athletes actually carry / try to store fat on purpose, getting abs costs, lots of the models or actors you see don't look like that 12 months out of the year, some will slim down for a job, some may slim down for the summer season, as far as foods, cut out empty calories which starts with sodas, juices, milk (yup ton of sugar in it), beer, wine, etc. just go basic protein and green vegetable, you may want to bake your fish or chicken breast so you are not frying it in oil, then steam the broccoli, spinach, green beans, etc. It's really all about the diet, and you are eating for fuel not enjoyment, lots of repetitive meals, if all you do is work out you are just working out the muscles under all that layer of belly fat.