Trying to lose fat ??

urerpsn

So I’m trying to lose belly fat so I started doing cardio around the evening time typically a hour or two later after lunch. And I started to eat less calories (under 2000 a day)and I heard if you do intense cardio your going to be really hungry because of all the calories you burn. And people say you shouldn’t eat but here where I’m lost at I still need to eat dinner and I’m still under 2000 calories so do I still eat dinner or completely skip it to loose belly fat ???

cwolfman13

You can't spot reduce fat. When you are in an energy deficiency (calorie deficit) you lose fat and it comes off from everywhere in your body. The midsection is primary fat stores for most men and many women...primary fat stores are a first on, last off kind of thing.

AnnPT77

urerpsn wrote: »

So I’m trying to lose belly fat so I started doing cardio around the evening time typically a hour or two later after lunch. And I started to eat less calories (under 2000 a day)and I heard if you do intense cardio your going to be really hungry because of all the calories you burn. And people say you shouldn’t eat but here where I’m lost at I still need to eat dinner and I’m still under 2000 calories so do I still eat dinner or completely skip it to loose belly fat ???

Intense cardio makes some people hungry, but not all. For some, it matters what the cardio is, for example one person might find running hunger-promoting but swimming not, and another person might be vice-versa.

My advice: Don't do intense cardio every day. It's counterproductive for both weight loss and fitness. For weight loss, the duration is self-limiting (we can't keep up truly intense cardio for a long duration, by definition); and it's disproportionately fatiguing (so can make us rest more and move less during the rest of the day, bleeding calorie burn out of daily life activity). For fitness, a mix of intensities is the best formula, with the majority of the time being base work, i.e., longer duration less intense cardio. On top of that, depending on the type of cardio, injury risk goes up with higher intensity.

Bottom line, elite athletes don't work at their max intensity every single day, and they have the best fitness advice money can buy . . . why would us regular duffers do all high intensity all the time?

As long as you're close to your 2000 calorie goal, and it's the right goal for you, you'll lose weight, and most of it will be fat. Like wolfman said, where it comes off is not controllable, but the belly will deplete eventually. Timing of your calories doesn't much matter for weight management, unless it affects sleep quality or something.