Tummy fat

Gethealthy2025

Hello Everyone!

I wanted some ideas and advice from you all. I am wanting to work a bit more on the fat around my tummy. What exercise is working for you and is there something you take that helps with this fat around belly section. I have heard green tea is good 👍🏻 let me hear what your suggestions are.

yirara

You can't train fat. Have you tried contracting it like muscles? It doesn't work. The only way to train fat is to be in a calorie deficit (lose fat) or in a calorie surplus (gain fat). The easiest way to do that is to eat less with a moderate calorie deficit. Note: quite often what we consider to be too much belly fat is simple poor posture or too tight fitting trousers.

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springlering62

you’ve been here off and on for years. If there were a secret tea or effective hack, it’d be all over the boards.

Closest thing is the GLP injections, which are new since your last efforts. Going that route depends on how much or little you have to lose this time, and the investment you want to make in both money and potential side effects.

Why not spend the time you may have spent searching for these magic fixes and put it into long term ideas you can use to stay in maintenance?

Green tea, apple cider vinegar, celery, and cabbage soup diets. If they’d been all that, celery and cabbage farmers’d be bigger ballers than the cartels, lol.

springlering62

PS: tummy fat….. it’s down to weight loss, core exercises, and, sadly, posture.

I have scoliosis, which means a perma-belly unless I remind myself to stand up straight and throw my shoulders back. It’s a constant battle. No one walks around 100% of the time reminding themselves to do that. 😂

but the real key here is, what do you consider to be a “belly” You’ve been at very low weights before (you’ve never specified height that I can see?) Are you giving your belly too much….errr….”weight”?

We see ourselves in a lot harsher light than others do. No one can judge us harder than ourselves.

There’s a great thread around here that someone will probably share soon, titled somerging like “Does This Uterus Make Me Look Fat?”

AnnPT77

There is no hack. Drop the whole concept. Everything that works takes patience, persistence, and something close to consistency.

Spring up there is right: Fat loss (if there's fat left to reasonably lose), strength and cardiovascular exercise, and for sure posture.

Influencers these days distort what is normal and healthful basically by lying: They use temporary carb depletion, a pump from just having strength trained minutes before, careful posture and poses, professional lighting, sometimes artful body makeup, and even photoshop to look a certain way that they don't look in everyday life themselves. Don't fall for liars.

Another possibly relevant thing: There's a difference between visceral fat and subcutaneous fat. Loosely, visceral fat is packed within the body cavity and in some vital organs, inside our body's sheath of muscle and bones. It's a particularly health-threatening type of fat. Visceral fat can make the belly area protrude more. (If you've seen sources mention an "apple shaped" body as being more concerning, that's a factor this is about.)

Subcutaneous fat is the fat that's mostly on the outside of the muscle layer, underneath the skin. Too much of it is negative, too, but it's a different level and type of risk. If there's some on the belly, we can usually feel it as a jiggly layer on top of the abdominal muscles.

In theory, two different people can have the same amount of body fat, but for one of them there's more visceral fat, and for the other there's more subcutaneous fat. Either one can add prominence to the belly area. Thin looking people can still have excess visceral fat.

Weight loss through calorie reduction can reduce both types of fat, but eating style also matters. In general, the average modern developed world eating style tends to tilt the balance relatively more intoward visceral fat. I'm talking about eating styles high in refined sugars, saturated fats, trans fats, and highly processed foods. Alcohol consumption can also contribute to developing visceral fat. Moderate amounts of most of those things aren't necessarily toxic/poison as some influencers claim, but centering overall eating on those things is not a good plan.

On the flip side, even at constant weight, a more healthful eating style can potentially gradually reduce visceral fat. That would be an eating style that's mostly whole, unprocessed or less-processed foods, lean protein, fiber-rich foods, and healthy fats, with moderate or no alcohol, and relatively little added sugar. Stress management, good quality/quantity sleep, and regular exercise can also help.

Why am I saying this? Because if you've lost weight, and are at a reasonable weight for your height - about which you've given us zero hint BTW - you might consider whether you have excess visceral fat. You could talk to your doctor about whether you have an unhealthful amount of fat at all, and whether you might have unhealthfully much visceral fat contributing to the appearance you seemingly don't like.

In general, if you have a less healthful diet, a better eating pattern and exercise might improve that situation over the long haul, with some patience and consistency. Certainly, if you do have a more unhealthful diet, improvements in that will have diverse benefits for you, possibly including a belly area that better meets your wishes.

There is no quick fix.

AnnPT77

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48731162#Comment_48731162

She's talking about this good thread, from the "Most Helpful Posts" subtopic in the "Health and Weight Loss" part of the Community here:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat

Gethealthy2025

so sorry my height is 5’1, thank you all

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