Belly fat last to go!??

Lexino

I can tell that I'm losing weight all over, but my belly won't seem to budge! Just seeing who else's belly fat doesn't seem to be going away!!?:grumble: :grumble: :mad:

Lexino

I can tell that I'm losing weight all over, but my belly won't seem to budge! Just seeing who else's belly fat doesn't seem to be going away!!?:grumble: :grumble: :mad:

TracyFace

I just bumped a thread you might want to check out, if you haven't already. Its called Newbies read this, original post by Banks. Lots of good info in it.

PedalHound

I can tell that I'm losing weight all over, but my belly won't seem to budge! Just seeing who else's belly fat doesn't seem to be going away!!?:grumble: :grumble: :mad:

The fat deposits that are the most recent are the easiest to lose. This is a sad reality I've accepted also. The first place I started to gain (when I was a KID) was on my belly. So I know that stubborn abdominal fat will hang on with a death grip until the last days. It helps to keep measurements of other areas so you can see improvements beyond your own personal "problem" area(s).

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kimber607

Hi

In my case, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's not just the last to go...it' NOT going...PERIOD
I've always been apple shaped and hold weight in my tummy
I started here in Jan and lost 27 pounds...I'm not 128-129 and a size 4/6
I still have the belly bulge even after crunches...I guess having 2 kids 18 mnths apart didn't work in my favor
I'm seriously considering plastic surgery, but may hold off another year...

Good luck and I hope you can zap your belly fat away....
Kim

banks1850

Sadly it's true. The technical reason of why this happens is based on what PH said.

As you accumulate fat, the fat is stored in certain places on your body, the longer that fat hangs around, the more compressed it will become. Also the further from blood flow it is, the harder it will be to lose. I know, your asking "then why is it stored there?" Well way back when, when we walked on 4 legs, this wasn't the case, and although our body evolved, the fat locations really didn't. As fat gets "older" it compresses, get's firmer, and there is less space between each fat deposit, blood vessels shift to less dense areas that are more in need of blood flow (fat doesn't really need anything so blood flow isn't really necessary). Unfortunately, the only way to get fat from the deposits to the places energy is needed, is to use the blood flow. Add this to the fact that the body is an efficiency engine, and you get stubborn fat deposits. See the body will grab energy on a "just in time" basis, and if it takes too long to grab the energy from the fat, the body will start pulling it from more accessible locations. Eventually, it will come off, if you continue to work hard, but it will just take a lot longer then other places. It can take months, or even years to work this off. The longer you have had significant "belly fat" the harder it is to remove.
this is the reason why someone who has recently "become" overweight can usually get rid of it quicker. It's also why people who are extremely overweight can lose their initial weight quick. With the amount of fat they have, much of it tends to be close to blood flow, making it easy for the body to grab the energy stored in it.

PedalHound

It's also one of the reasons that serious body builders play such particular "games" with their nutrition, the timing of their protein intake and so on. The body will begin to want to burn muscle rather than stubborn fat, and if you're at that point it may help to carefully plan out how you fuel your workouts. Think of it this way:

If you know you're going to work out, eat a small carbohydrate-rich snack a good hour before hand. After your workout, consume some serious protein. It all goes back to our ancestral physiology and its evolution (as Banks mentioned also) and if we consume protein after a work out the body is more willing to burn fat as it recovers, as well as repairing the muscle that was exercised. Why? Well, it used to be "the hunt". Lots of exercise resulting in a kill of a protein (animal) which would have been consumed pretty quickly. This would also have indicated to the body that there would be nourishment ahead and the famed variable metabolism would relax and let a little fat go. Really getting back to our anthropological basics can make a huge difference when trying to basically play tricks on the body.