Menapause

You can't control where you lose fat from first. We are all genetically programmed to carry extra weight in different places. There is no special diet, no special foods, no exercises that will target or spot reduce this fat. The only thing you can do is keep losing weight and/or reducing your body fat percentage until it is gone. To do that, eat at a moderate calorie deficit, do some exercise (strength training is great for reducing body fat percentage), apply some patience and give it time.

If you cut carbs, especially simple carbs, and processed foods and up protein, that belly fat will go away. Carbs cause us to store 4 grams of water for each gram of carbs that is stored.

No. Well, no to the part about "if you cut cabs your belly fat will go away." Food in excess - of any type - causes us to store fat. She wasn't asking about three or four pounds of water weight.

What Lora said above is spot-on. Maintain a calorie deficit and exercise to lose fat from your body. You will lose it wherever you are genetically predisposed to lose first. But eventually, if you continue to lose body fat, your belly will go down.

There was an article in today's paper on weight gain after menopause. The average woman gains 12 pounds and the fat moves from the hips and thighs to the belly area. This was a research study conducted by the Mayo clinic. The conclusion was that to lose the belly fat it is necessary to cut the carbs and increase the protein.