Tummy fat

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  • kellyusagi
    kellyusagi Posts: 1 Member
    This may or may not be helpful but as others have said sometimes due to genetics having a flat belly is just not achievable unless you are in the difficult low body fat range (like 15%). The closest I have ever gotten was 20% and belly fat was definitely still an issue for me. However, some women have a 'flat' stomach if they are in the low 20% range. It really just depends on the cards you were dealt when you were born.

    With that being said I found flexing or sucking in the abdomen region was easier to do when I was in the lower 20% bf range and was able to achieve the appearance of a "flatter" stomach when doing that. Eventually it just became a habit to flex all the time or at least when taking photos lol.
  • LouVee186000
    LouVee186000 Posts: 81 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    benn8895 wrote: »
    Hey everyone, so I have a question. Let me preface by saying I KNOW that everyone loses weight in different places...

    That's true: I lose weight in Utah.

    I gain weight in New Mexico.

    Have you ever visited the restaurants in Santa Fe ?

    YES I HAVE. And I spent my teenage years in ABQ and still miss the food. Rather glad I'm not there now, it would be very tough for me to lose eating carne adovada and sopa pillas a couple of times a week.
  • pontious11349
    pontious11349 Posts: 105 Member
    I think you are talking about Camille LeBlanc-Bazinet - who is awesome btw!!!!

    Anyway - your lower tummy is the bottom layer of the brick wall. The first bricks you lay and last you can smash away. Be patient and persevere. Thats what Im telling myself anyway,haha!
  • staticsplit
    staticsplit Posts: 538 Member
    I think you are talking about Camille LeBlanc-Bazinet - who is awesome btw!!!!

    Anyway - your lower tummy is the bottom layer of the brick wall. The first bricks you lay and last you can smash away. Be patient and persevere. Thats what Im telling myself anyway,haha!

    Yes, I think that was her!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,964 Member
    I think you have to do stuff like sit ups. I don’t really know, I walk the dogs everyday and swim twice a week. Vacuumed my car today. Just looked at the daily workout thread and couldn’t believe what I read there. I have no idea how people do so much. Made me feel really disheartened. I was going to get a personal trainer but if you have to spend 2 hours a day doing extreme sport I honestly think I’d sooner be fat.
    My clients train with me for only 30 minutes a day. Most of them we do full body workout and I ask them to do it at least once if not 2 times more in the week on their own.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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  • cayenne_007
    cayenne_007 Posts: 668 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    benn8895 wrote: »
    Hey everyone, so I have a question. Let me preface by saying I KNOW that everyone loses weight in different places...

    That's true: I lose weight in Utah.

    I gain weight in New Mexico.

    Have you ever visited the restaurants in Santa Fe ?

    YES I HAVE. And I spent my teenage years in ABQ and still miss the food. Rather glad I'm not there now, it would be very tough for me to lose eating carne adovada and sopa pillas a couple of times a week.

    Welcome to my biggest excuse for not having a flat gut. We live south of Albq and there is NOTHING to eat except Mexican food (and it's delicious Mexican food....which I can consume a really impressive amount of in a sitting)
  • goatelope
    goatelope Posts: 178 Member
    In the past I found that tababa style workouts did a lot for my muscles. It didn’t help so much with fat burning but I could see muscle developing underneath.
  • AmatullahMuwahidah
    AmatullahMuwahidah Posts: 22 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    And you also may want to consider doing a parasite cleanse, sometimes parasites cause the belly to protrude and makes it look bigger. Cloves, Wormwood and Papaya Seeds are great for this issue!
    Broscience. If you have a parasite in your body (like a tapeworm) you need to see a specialist in gastroentrology, not do a "cleanse".


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  • AmatullahMuwahidah
    AmatullahMuwahidah Posts: 22 Member
    And you also may want to consider doing a parasite cleanse, sometimes parasites cause the belly to protrude and makes it look bigger. Cloves, Wormwood and Papaya Seeds are great for this issue!

    Whoa. If you have parasites, you need a doctor. Not seeds.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAP-EtKZF4
  • maureenseel1984
    maureenseel1984 Posts: 395 Member

    I agree with a lot of this, particularly about ones weight not being the be all and end all of everything, but I wanted to address the bolded. For many of us, our bodies do not "manage" themselves very well, which is how we've gotten to a place of obesity in the first place. I assume the "many many years" is referring to how obesity has mostly only been a modern thing. And while that's too a certain extent true, it's not from anything our bodies do or did. People used to be naturally skinnier because they used to be more active and food was scarcer. The bigger risk used to be starvation, not obesity. Now most of live in a world where food is regularly available and we move around a whole lot less. That has led to a lot more obesity. We don't need to cleanse or detoxify anything of those things to get rid of it. We just need to eat at a calorie deficit.

    I don't think anyone is wrong for accepting their body the way it is, and I don't think anyone is wrong for wanting to change their body. I think you can still love your body while doing the latter. My fat, my skin condition, and my stomach problems, etc, are all a part of me. I can love myself while having them while also wanting to reduce them all.

    I don't think anyone should feel like they need to meet body expectations that are unrealistic for many people, but if people are able to reach them while coming from a healthy place physically and mentally, I think that's great for them.

    I don't think I'll ever have that ripped six pack body, but as I get farther along, I may work for it, but in a healthy way.

    The problem I'm getting at is the diet and fitness industry...and how things like eating restrictive diets in order to achieve a certain body type may not be realistic. My body will never NEVER be like a ballerina. My metabolism even when I eat well and exercise routinely...the only way I can get a ballerina body is by starvation and over-exercising (I'd know from experience-got the body-and an inpatient admission). It is great to want to exercise and eat well. But if you're doing those things and still don't "see the body you want"...then it is time to accept what you have. It is ok to be eating healthfully and exercising and not have the "perfect body". Particularly as we age-this expectation of how we're "supposed to look" (especially-but not exclusively women) is not realistic...and will drive us insane.
  • Martha_VH
    Martha_VH Posts: 386 Member
    Girl, I have lost 36 pounds since the beginning of this year. I still have a belly. I have a mama tummy. I can say I have lost 5 inches off of each, my chest, waist, and hips. I can tell you what I've done, maybe it would work for you, maybe not.
    I followed the Flat Belly diet. It has worked for me in the past. For only the first 4 days its really restrictive, and you eat an anti-bloat jumpstart. Then It emphasizes eating healthy fats, like nuts, healthy oils, seeds avocado etc. Watching sodium has also been a huge thing for me.
  • fit_chickx
    fit_chickx Posts: 569 Member
    I am 5”5” 130lbs I hold weight in my midsection. The only way I can get rid of it is to lower my body fat percentage with diet and exercise.(cardio and weight lifting) Right now, I’m at 23% body fat. I’m working to get to 21%.
  • poisonesse
    poisonesse Posts: 573 Member
    I've been on this journey since 12/2012. I had about 60 pounds to lose. I lost it, still had a belly (not as big, but still there) but also regained 30 pounds quickly. Since then, I've taken my time, and finally in March I again hit goal plus 5 pounds. Still had a belly. I've now maintained since then, and just the other day I realized that I could look straight down and see my boobs and my feet... but NOT my belly. When I lost it, I'm not sure, just that it happened so slowly I never noticed. (Actually, same thing with my butt! lol) OH and my exercise is basically hiking/walking, with a little recumbent biking if the weather is too bad for hiking. So no sit-ups (those are SO bad for your back!) and no "spot reduction" exercises... just time and perseverance. ;)