Any high protein diets that assist with stomach loss?

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I have a bachelor trip in September and i’m looking to lose my stomach and gain muscle. Started to eat clean the last few days but looking for more structure as far as eating.

AnnPT77

Unfortunately, spot reduction isn't possible, so there's no way to target a specific body area for fat loss. However, losing fat in general is obviously going to mean eventually losing it from where you actually have some fat to lose, right? For many of us, the abdominal area is the last to deplete of fat . . . but if that's the main place you have fat, losing weight will shrink that fat at some point in the process.

How to lose weight? Eat fewer calories on average than you burn on average.

It's potentially possible to gain muscle and lose fat at constant body weight, effectively using the fat to fuel some of the body processes needed to live plus build the muscle. That's a very slow route. It may not fit your September timeline.

Exactly what to do depends in part on how much fat you have available to lose to reach your September leanness goal. If it's not a lot, a potential route would be a very small calorie deficit, excellent overall nutrition (especially but not exclusively ample protein), and a good progressive strength training program faithfully performed.

The faster you lose weight - the bigger the calorie deficit - the less likely you'll build muscle, or at least the more likely you'll build it more slowly. For most people in a meaningful deficit, preserving existing muscle is a somewhat realistic goal, with gaining muscle mass as more of a "if you're lucky" thing. At a fast rate of fat loss, muscle mass gain will be minimal to nil, and muscle mass might even be lost. It depends on age, genetics, how overweight the person is, and more.

It probably goes without saying, but no matter what, good nutrition and the progressive lifting program are essential ingredients in reaching your specified goals.

Even under the best circumstances, muscle mass gain is a gradual process, requiring persistence and patience (plus the nutrition and lifting). The highest likelihood of the faster end of gradual comes with a calorie surplus, i.e., weight gain . . . and probably some of that gain would be fat. That's why many bodybuilder types use a bulk then cut approach, slowly gaining weight to maximize muscle gain, then cutting calories carefully to lose fat but keep up lifting/nutrition to keep as much muscle as possible. Unless you're close to a good weight now, that probably isn't the best way to reach your goals by September.

If you're athletically active, but have some midsection fat, you may already have some muscles hiding under the fat layer, and losing fat via a sensibly moderate calorie deficit would reveal them. When I lost weight, around 50 pounds, I found I already had more muscle than I'd realized . . . but I am athletically active, had been for over a decade while still obese, and I'm female so a good bit of my fat layer was subcutaneous fat all over my body, not just abdominal fat. YMMV.