STUBBORN LOWER BELLY FAT 🤬

mandymayela96

I started my fitness journey early this year (you know, pre-corona) and have lost 25 lbs as of last week. However, I am struggling with losing the extra fat on my lower stomach & love handles. Are there any additional exercises I need to include to my workouts or are there foods that I should be eating to help with my issues?

Any tips/recommendations would help. Thank you all and God bless!

psuLemon

Time and patience. Exercise can develop your ab muscles (strength and size) but not cause you to lose fat in that area. Based on my experience, we tend to underestimate body fat and overestimate muscle so it often requires you to continue to lose weight longer to get the body you want.

AnnPT77

Abdominal fat is first on, last off for a lot of people, me included.

Spot reducing isn't possible, and the only food to eat is "less than you burn" . Core exercises will help pull things in, make the parts under the fat tighter, but won't change the fat itself. If you still have pounds to lose, it's likely that the abdominal fat will shrink along the way.

Best local advice on getting a nice waistline/abdomen: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach/p1

I'd add that sometimes less than ideal posture can cause remaining central fat to look more pronounced than minimum, with the most common problems being anterior pelvic tilt, and a tendency to rounded shoulders/thrust-forward chin (the latter from our posture from slumping over electronic devices, sometimes). If you do a web search, you can easily find info that will explain what those are, and what to do about them if they're affecting you, way better than I can explain them.

Hang in there!