i dont know what my body needs

jc86
jc86 Posts: 151
in Health and Weight Loss
how do i get rid of all my back fat and fat on my love handle/midsection? it is driving me nuts. thanks for any tips

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  • cfloresmt
    cfloresmt Posts: 33 Member
    Fat is lost gradually and from all your body. You cannot lose fat from one specific area. It just goes down gradually from every part of your body. If you target some parts with just excersizes (like abs for example), it is in some cases counter-intuitive as the muscles will grow and push the fat upwards making you look fatter.

    You show you lost 17lbs. You are definitely doing something right? Plus at 115lbs I don't think there is much more low you can go?

    In any case, you can do keto and add on weights. Fat = fly fly fly. From there it is all what you want to do with your body, though if you are really 115lbs and are from the year of '86 I doubt you have a lot of fat.

    Tried calipers? what is your current body fat percentage?

    Don't overdo things. I've been there, and its not pretty.

    Godspeed.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    Eat at a caloric deficit and exercise (preferably including strength training, which helps preserve lean muscle mass as the fat is lost). You can't spot reduce - it will eventually come off at some point in your weight loss according to your genetics. No particular foods or exercises will cause the fat to disappear from a particular area of your body any faster. Don't believe the supplement and/or exercise equipment sales pitches saying they "target belly/midsection fat" - it's all BS. Fat loss patterns are predetermined by your genetics. Just keep at it and eventually you'll lose it.
  • curlmonkey
    curlmonkey Posts: 1
    cardio, no fat foods,plank,side bends,crunches,situps,three times a week
  • NocturnalGirl
    NocturnalGirl Posts: 1,762
    Lose fat. You can't spot reduce, it'll eventually come off.
  • JosephVitte
    JosephVitte Posts: 2,039
    A friend just told me tonight about intermediate fasting. He showed me pictures of himself when he was doing it, RIPPED!

    I gotta look it up myself now, he said just go on the internet. I know about fasting, but this has a twist to it, so you can eat as well. He sort of explained it, sort of.........
  • cfloresmt
    cfloresmt Posts: 33 Member
    cardio, no fat foods,plank,side bends,crunches,situps,three times a week

    Erm.. just no. Cardio will just increase her TDEE. We don't know if she is on a deficit at this point or not.

    Nutrition wise, fat, if anything, is required as part of a balanced diet. No fat foods is ridiculous. If anything cut down on carbs.,.

    And if she is going to do excersizes, might as well do something that can contribute to fat loss. Plank I can see it helping to increase her core, but other than that..
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    ...plank,side bends,crunches,situps,three times a week
    None of which will do anything to reduce belly fat. You can exercise muscles, but you can't exercise fat. Core exercises may strengthen (and maybe even enlarge) the muscles and you may have an amazing six-pack, but it will still be buried under a layer of fat until the fat is lost through a caloric deficit.
    A friend just told me tonight about intermediate fasting. He showed me pictures of himself when he was doing it, RIPPED!

    I gotta look it up myself now, he said just go on the internet. I know about fasting, but this has a twist to it, so you can eat as well. He sort of explained it, sort of.........
    As you fire up your search engine to learn more about it, you may want to search for intermittent fasting - not intermediate fasting.
  • cfloresmt
    cfloresmt Posts: 33 Member
    A friend just told me tonight about intermediate fasting. He showed me pictures of himself when he was doing it, RIPPED!

    I gotta look it up myself now, he said just go on the internet. I know about fasting, but this has a twist to it, so you can eat as well. He sort of explained it, sort of.........

    I do IF. It does nothing if you don't control your calorie intake. I just use it because the whole metabolism will slow down is crap and it fits my daily routine better and I can piggy out after weights and it feels good :)

    There are benefits to it, but don't expect to lose weight if you just cram all the food you usually eat in a 6hr window. People see benefits because they cannot manage to eat a days worth of food in that span of time.

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