Im dying to lose my beer belly

Mate, I'm 30 and 99.5 kgs - in a similar boat. It's the beer that kills us. gotta start with cardio to get your skill up, and your body used to exercise. Once you lose some of the weight it's time for crunches! Just remember it's 70% diet and 30% exercise - discipline is your best friend. Good luck - (to both of us, right?)

I'd try to lose my beer belly but I think that would entail giving up beer. I'll just keep blaming it on my c-sections. lol. Kidding. Seriously though, you can't spot reduce.

GarySnape wrote: »

Cheers ed yeah the beer is a no no for me now and thanks for the tip. My mate told me about a guy called Shaun T insanity so I'm going to try that. Wish me luck.

You're new, and that's great. Good for you for making the first step. First, read this:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach/p1

Someone else linked it, and I wanted to emphasize that this is good advice. The path you're embarking on now is unlikely to be sustainable. What most people do is decide one day to make a change, which is good, but they feel the need to make maximum changes, and believe that the only way to make progress is to endure brutal workouts while eating awful food and saying no to every single indulgence. It must be that hard, right? But what's going to happen is this is going to be too much, too fast, and you'll burn out within 3 months if you make it that long. A huge percentage of people who apply the method you're using give up by this point.

Instead, do some more research about sound dietary practices. You'll find that the good resources that aren't invested in selling you supplements will converge on the following:

1. Find a way to estimate your TDEE (number of calories you burn each day). It'll ask you your activity level, assume you're sedentary. Subtract 500 from the number you get. Eat this many calories.
2. Be accountable for the food you eat, and use a tracker like MFP to ensure you don't eat more than this TDEE-500 number you just came up with.
3. Do strength training that focuses on compound barbell lifts, specifically squat, deadlift, bench press, overhead press. I recommend Starting Strength for its unparalleled ability to teach good form. It's good to add pullups, rows, and dips. No need for ab-specific exercises like crunches until you know enough to know why you can add them in.
4. Get a bit more advanced with your nutrition and track macronutrients. Set protein to 1g per pound of lean mass, set fat to 20% of total calories, and the rest carbohydrates. Follow a sustainable 80/20 rule where 20% of your total calories come from whatever foods you want.
5. Drink enough water and get enough sleep.
6. Weigh yourself weekly under similar conditions.
7. Add cardio in once you've done a lot of reading and understand its place in your routine.
8. Understand that these changes are forever, buddy, so choose habits you feel like you don't mind doing until the day you die. Well, I mean you don't have to, but you'll end up back where you are now and likely worse.

You can drink beer if you want to, and eat pizza and ice cream, SO LONG AS you keep your macros and calories in check. Take a multivitamin and fish oil. Get most of your protein and nutrients from food, but supplement to fill in the last gaps.

This is what the people are doing who look and feel better than you.

I love a drink at weekends...def my down fall and recently I've totally lost my motivation! I've lost 2 St so far but I need to carry on as I'm not at my goal!!! " I'm closer to my goal today than I was yesterday but il be even closer tomorrow " you can do it