Flat Tummy Tips..Do you have any?
ksparrows
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I am overweight right now, but even when I was thin/fit, (5'4" 112 lbs) I seemed to always have a pooch.
What helped you get a flat tummy?
What helped you get a flat tummy?
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Calorie deficit, heavy lifting.0
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Eating at a deficit to lose fat, and heavy lifting. You can't spot reduce.0
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calorie deficit at first, to lose the weight (and I had to get down to a bmi of around 19). Then I added walking and a bit of jogging after I transitioned into maintenance. Also, I've never done any heavy lifting
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Flat tummy has a lot to do with body fat %. Do you know what yours is?0
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Haha I just came to post this!0 -
Like the rest have said Caloric deficit is the only way besides regular consistent exercise which you should pair with the deficit for best results. Spot reduction is a myth. When you lose fat it doesn't come off one area. It will come off your entire body slowly.0
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If you're talking about fat, then caloric deficit. If you're talking about bloat, probiotics.0
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If I run 3 or more days a week, I keep a flat stomach.0
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If I run 3 or more days a week, I keep a flat stomach.
I might run once a week if I feel up to it, I keep a flat stomach.0 -
Have genetics that dictate your store your fat in your thighs and not your belly...0
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Have genetics that dictate your store your fat in your thighs and not your belly...
I store evenly in both.0 -
I used to store all my fat in my thighs, but as I get older it goes to my tummy first. If I still have belly fat after I reach my goal weight I find that the only thing that creates a flat tummy is continuing to build muscle elsewhere. Squats and deadlifts are good because they help build huge muscles, hamstrings, quads and glutes, not to mention the full body effect, and they also require the use of stabilization muscles.0
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Although you cannot spot reduce a poster above me stated, I like the phrase "Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym".
The lower part of your stomach (or the pooch as you call it) is pretty synonymous with the kinds of food that you eat. You can eat at a deficit and work out like crazy, but if you are making poor diet choices, you will always have a tummy.0 -
Although you cannot spot reduce a poster above me stated, I like the phrase "Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym".
The lower part of your stomach (or the pooch as you call it) is pretty synonymous with the kinds of food that you eat. You can eat at a deficit and work out like crazy, but if you are making poor diet choices, you will always have a tummy.
My diet would make a clean eater faint and I still have a flat tummy. It is the calorie deficit that does it.0 -
Although you cannot spot reduce a poster above me stated, I like the phrase "Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym".
The lower part of your stomach (or the pooch as you call it) is pretty synonymous with the kinds of food that you eat. You can eat at a deficit and work out like crazy, but if you are making poor diet choices, you will always have a tummy.
My diet would make a clean eater faint and I still have a flat tummy. It is the calorie deficit that does it.
Same here.0 -
Although you cannot spot reduce a poster above me stated, I like the phrase "Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym".
The lower part of your stomach (or the pooch as you call it) is pretty synonymous with the kinds of food that you eat. You can eat at a deficit and work out like crazy, but if you are making poor diet choices, you will always have a tummy.
My diet would make a clean eater faint and I still have a flat tummy. It is the calorie deficit that does it.
Same here.
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Although you cannot spot reduce a poster above me stated, I like the phrase "Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym".
The lower part of your stomach (or the pooch as you call it) is pretty synonymous with the kinds of food that you eat. You can eat at a deficit and work out like crazy, but if you are making poor diet choices, you will always have a tummy.
I eat fast food 3-4 times a week, 'processed' foods etc etc.
I also only do 30 minutes of pretty low impact exercise a day, and actually had a pretty flat stomach before I even started exercising. My flat stomach is the result of a calorie deficit and losing enough weight. End of story. 0 -
Been trying for ages now, it's a work in progress. Calorie deficit along with TONNES of persistence/perseverence seems to be the answer0
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Does anyone think genetics could play a roll in flat stomachs? All the women in my family have large stomachs. Am I destined to never have a nice stomach?0
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Also, being aware of your tummy throughout the day and holding them in will help to tighten your abdominus recti (?) which will flatten your stomach. Genetics plays a big role but you can work to tighten and shrink. Calorie deficit is Important but so is lifting and other exercises that incorporate abdominal muscles.0
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My son told me that Abs are made in the gym and exposed in the kitchen! Just a thought, everybody might be right!!!0
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Thanks for all the responses. Thanks for the links too. Glad to see I am on the right track, I just need to keep ticking away at it.0
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Does anyone think genetics could play a roll in flat stomachs? All the women in my family have large stomachs. Am I destined to never have a nice stomach?
Most of my family/relatives are either obese or have died obese, from things like T2 diabetes. So my family is large all over
eta: every woman in my family, going back several generations is/has been overweight/obese. Every.single.one. My sisters and I are the first ones who have lost the excess weight and kept it off for any period of time. Most of my male relatives are/were overweight/obese, with my dad being the thinnest, at about 10lbs overweight right now. When he was younger he used to be really into weight lifting, so I think that helped offset the middle age weight gain that hits our family. For him to only be a few pounds overweight in his 60s is quite remarkable, considering our family tree! He's also the only one who exercises, besides my sisters and I, by riding his bike several times a week. He has none of the health problems that have plagued his siblings and he's still going strong 0 -
I run 20-25 miles a week, lift weights 2-3 times a week, log everything I eat down to the last morsel, and keep hydrated at all times.
ETA: Even when I was 70 lbs heavier I never had a big stomach so that's why I was able to get a flat stomach now. It never stretched out or had rolls, plus I have never had kids so the skin is still elastic.0 -
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Even as a 2 sport athlete I didnt have a flat belly, but I also was young and not watching what I was eating. I don't think you can just work out and get abs/flat stomach. It has to come from a pretty strict diet. When I was on WW for 6 months after having my first child, I had the flattest stomach I had ever had just because I was logging and not eating processed foods.
I do believe some is genetics. It has to be. My friend is one of the healthiest people I know and her weight is 75% in her stomach.0 -
Like others have said - can't spot reduce etc
I have the opposite problem - the weight on my stomach was the last thing to appear and I have a substantial *kitten* to waist ratio. It's far from washboard, but it's almost always been comparatively flat compares to the rest of me and I have had a child.
I'd like to lose it off the backside, but as others have mentioned, it's just a case of cal deficit. I also think genetics must play a part too, I've lost 25% of my body weight but only lost 7 ins off my hips, I'll have to accept that skinny jeans will always make me look like a pair of chicken drumsticks.0
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