Tips for getting rid of stomach fat
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I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
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I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
Ummm....being in an energy deficiency is the only way to lose weight. If I need 2,800 calories to maintain, I eat a little less than that to lose weight...it's not disordered or "yo-yo dieting"....
You know this is a calorie counting website right? Where people count calories to ensure they're in a deficit position?0 -
I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
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I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
Let me say this as politely as possible:
That is possibly the single most ignorant thing I have ever read on these forums.
A basic understanding of physiology lends the knowledge of the FACT that excess energy is stored as fat ONLY when a caloric surplus occurs and fat is burned for energy ONLY when a caloric deficit occurs.
Monitoring calorie intake (whether by tracking calories or macronutrients) is the single most successful way to maintain weight loss. It is deliberate eating and hardly similar to disordered eating or yoyo dieting.
Fad diets, VLCD (very low calorie diets) and extreme dietary restrictions are what lead to yoyo dieting.0 -
Again, I am surprised by the comments on here, but I will leave you all to what you believe to be true. Good luck!0
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You can't target loss. Calorie deficit and belly fat is the last to go...and first to come back.0
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I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
Note: as others have posted above, a deficit will, in almost every single case, result is weight loss. No one has proposed a starvation diet with too few calories including the OP. And it is also basic physics.
To the OP, as others have noted, you cannot spot burn fat. However, as you slowly burn through the fat layer(s) you can do some work on the underlying muscle definition. But that does not mean that the fat will burn off faster simply because of proximity of muscle work.
There are also physiological considerations concerning the intensity of calorie expenditure. You are always burning some combination of sugar (from glycogen stores within the body) and fat (also breaking down to sugar for energy). The more intense the workout, the more preferentially the body converts the glycogen stores for energy instead of the fat. The fat burn is more "efficient," but the glycogen (sugar) burn is easier.
That is why low to moderate intensity aerobic activities are suggested as a way to burn fat. It takes a longer period of time to burn calories, but it helps in the preferential burn rate.0 -
Again, I am surprised by the comments on here, but I will leave you all to what you believe to be true. Good luck!
So enlighten me...
I mean considering that I cut a handful of calories and dumped about 40 Lbs and have been maintaining for almost three years without logging or anything...I'd say it works pretty good...but go ahead and enlighten me on how this doesn't work and how disordered my thinking is....0 -
Liposuction. If you can't go that route, then it's patience that's next.
I'm on a diet and go to the gym for an hour a day I was just wondering if there were any tips people had to target weight loss for the stomach areaKANGOOJUMPS wrote: »go on a diet?
bwwahhhhhhhh.
situps.
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I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
Note: as others have posted above, a deficit will, in almost every single case, result is weight loss. No one has proposed a starvation diet with too few calories including the OP. And it is also basic physics.
To the OP, as others have noted, you cannot spot burn fat. However, as you slowly burn through the fat layer(s) you can do some work on the underlying muscle definition. But that does not mean that the fat will burn off faster simply because of proximity of muscle work.
There are also physiological considerations concerning the intensity of calorie expenditure. You are always burning some combination of sugar (from glycogen stores within the body) and fat (also breaking down to sugar for energy). The more intense the workout, the more preferentially the body converts the glycogen stores for energy instead of the fat. The fat burn is more "efficient," but the glycogen (sugar) burn is easier.
That is why low to moderate intensity aerobic activities are suggested as a way to burn fat. It takes a longer period of time to burn calories, but it helps in the preferential burn rate.
But high intensity may burn more calories, and if the deficit is the same from both types of exercise there should be no difference in fat loss, as your body, the rest of the day will be using fat to make up for the energy deficit. You need to look at the full day/week, just looking at this exercise or that exercise etc. does not tell the whole story.0 -
Again, I am surprised by the comments on here, but I will leave you all to what you believe to be true. Good luck!
So exactly how is it that you lose weight if a calorie deficit is so "disordered"? It can be, yes, but for the average person looking to lose, they aren't going to reach those levels.0 -
Lol, guess what? If someone sees a dietician, they'll have that someone eating in deficit to lose weight.I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
Not kidding.
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I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
I've been doing it wrong all this time and didn't know
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I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
Does it hurt when you try to think? Just curious.0 -
I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
You're a brave man for posting that. I hope you learn something, because you're also very wrong, hopefully with just a misunderstanding of what a calorie deficit is. You're going to get a lot of correction, possibly for several pages worth of this thread.0 -
Stay away from sugars! Drink plenty of water and green tea!! Hot water and lemon is also very good, drink it as soon as you wake up helps speed up metabolism x0
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How is green tea and hot water and lemon good for belly fat? Stay away from sugar if you want, drink plenty of water is a good habit but none isolate losing belly fat.0
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1) Stay away from sugars! Drink plenty of water and 2) green tea!! 3)Hot water and 4)lemon is also very good, drink it as soon as you wake up 5)helps speed up metabolism x
1) not necessary at all
2) also completely unnecessary and won't help
3) pointless
4) mythical lemon magic is mythical
5) this is so utterly false and ridiculous I don't think I could properly emphasize just how false it is0 -
I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
...he says as he logs his food in order to ensure he's eating at a calorie deficit. :huh:
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PikaKnight wrote: »I'm surprised by how many people suggest to eat a calorie deficit. This is a very harmful way of attempting to lose weight, mainly because it can never be maintained. Eating in this manner is called "disordered eating", and often known as the "yo-yo diet". If someone needs to lose weight for health reasons, see a dietitian who can help manage a healthy lifestyle through proper eating habits and staying active.
...he says as he logs his food in order to ensure he's eating at a calorie deficit. :huh:
An average of a 1k deficit on most days, too. I noticed that right off.0 -
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Carlos_421 wrote: »1) Stay away from sugars! Drink plenty of water and 2) green tea!! 3)Hot water and 4)lemon is also very good, drink it as soon as you wake up 5)helps speed up metabolism x
1) not necessary at all
2) also completely unnecessary and won't help
3) pointless
4) mythical lemon magic is mythical
5) this is so utterly false and ridiculous I don't think I could properly emphasize just how false it is
Well it's helped me so maybe you don't know as much as you think
More like a placebo effect for you0
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