Best way to loose Tummy?!

i would love to know the answer to this question!!!!!

I wish you could spot reduce! I would keep everything on me as is and just zap away my tummy. Unfortunately, you just gotta keep at what you are doing until it goes away in the order your body wants it to. Building muscle is a good idea - so keep doing what you are! When your fat is gone then your muscles will start to show!

Lots of cardio, lots of water, and lots and lots of crunches. I personally love the abs workout in the Turbo Fire program. I've got a flat tummy and abs for the first time in my life... lol. What others have said would be good too, cut out sugar entirely, as you really don't need it at all. (Natural sugars are different, as in fruits.) Lower your carb intake as well, but don't cut them out entirely.

I have done some research on this in the past few weeks. I am one that works my abs continuously and always looking for stomach/ab exercises, but even with working my abs daily I find that I am not shedding my tummy. I am fairly toned throughout my body in every place but my stomach. I have come across alot of information that states no matter how much you work your abs you will not get a flat tummy unless you lose the layer of *fat* over top of your ab muscles, and that ab exercises only work the muscles and don't help alot with actual weight loss.
I plan on starting the Jillian Michaels this week (when i can go shopping to buy it) and hope that it helps with losing overall *body fat*. However I find one of the best ab excercises I have come across myself is the P90x ab ripper workout. 16 min of hardcore ab excercises. I find the video on google videos. Instead of buying the whole P90X system. I personally am hoping that the combination of ab ripper 3 times a week or so and then with the 30DS. That the goal of a flatter tummy is acheived.

everyone's going to reply here saying "you can't spot reduce" and that overall cardio and strength training will make you lose fat from all over your body....

HOWEVER I find that pilates helps tone and lengthen your stomach muscles and build a strong core. they've also found that participants on a diet who took fish oil every day lost more abdominal fat than those on the same diet that didnt

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You can't lengthen any muscle in your body through exercise. The insertions of you muscles were set a birth and only surgery can change that.
Though I believe in fish oil, there is no peer viewed evidence I've found that shows it increases fat loss. If there is please post it.

Avocado is also linked to helping reduce tummy fat. As is nuts and dark chocolate (I said DARK). Keep up the great exercise with loads of water and ensure you eat enough calories so your body will let go of it's much-loved fat cells. Good luck! Kathy

I was thinking of avacados - they seemed to have helped me in the tummy area.

everyone's going to reply here saying "you can't spot reduce" and that overall cardio and strength training will make you lose fat from all over your body....

HOWEVER I find that pilates helps tone and lengthen your stomach muscles and build a strong core. they've also found that participants on a diet who took fish oil every day lost more abdominal fat than those on the same diet that didnt

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You can't lengthen any muscle in your body through exercise. The insertions of you muscles were set a birth and only surgery can change that.
Though I believe in fish oil, there is no peer viewed evidence I've found that shows it increases fat loss. If there is please post it.

this is just one of the many articles i've read about studies which link fish oil with reduction in abdominal fat : http://healthyeatingclub.com/info/articles/supplements/fish-oil.htm

found this after a 2 second search- there is lots more out there!

If you want LOOSE belly fat, do nothing. If you want to LOSE belly fat, eat well, do cardio, and build some muscle.

Avoid saturated fats from animals, as that causes the bad belly fat weight gain.

I don't see this as being true. There isn't any peer reviewed studies that prove that saturated fat even causes heart disease. The AMA, AHA, and even ACS have had studies done and haven't concluded this statement to be true.

Hm. Good to know. Well then why is it talked about so much? Where are you getting info? I carry my extra stuff around my waist and all I hear is "avoid red meat" and "crunches don't help"... Don't even know who to listen to anymore. I'm waiting for the day someone comes out with "studies show that lettuce is fattening." :-P

Editing to add that Im not trying to critique you, niner. Just frustrated by all the conflicting information out there.

Jillian Michaels has 6 week 6 pack! and it's amazing!

im all about running....the more i have done the more weight has just fell off. i also weight train after running 6days per week.

My info is from peer reviewed studies from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism the most respected source for Endocrinology and Metabolism studies.
While saturated fat CAN attribute (kind of like walking on a broken foot) to more heart damage, it's not the same as what caused it in the first place. Genetics and inflammation factors are usually the culprit to heart disease.
What's great is that there are good scientific (not pseudoscience) sources with studies that aren't biased to show how different metabolic pathways affect the fats in our body. Did you know we have 2 types of fats? Brown (good) and white (not so good). Read about brown fat and how it assists us in using white fat as energy.

Well, I guess I'm spending some time with Mr. Google today. Thanks for the reply.

If you look at the Women's Health Magazine website (www.womenshealthmag.com) they always have a section called the AbsDiet. They recommend food, exercise, etc.
Good luck! I know my #1 goal is a flat stomach, so I hear you!

I HAVE NEVER BELIEVED THE HYPE ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO SPOT REDUCE, BECAUSE WHEN I WASNT TOO LAZY TO DO IT, I ALWAYS DID IT. WHATEVER PART OF MY BODY I WORKED ON, I GOT RESULTS. THE EXERCISES WOULD NOT EXIST IF THEY WEREN'T CREATED FOR A PURPOSE. THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN CARDIO WAS CALLED AEROBICS AND THEY MOSTLY CONSISTED OF LEG KICKS. THE LAST TIME I GOT MY TUMMY DOWN I WAS 50, ARTHRITIC, AND COULD NOT DO AEROBICS BECAUSE OF MY KNEES. I WORKED MY BELLY, THIGHS AND MY ARMS AND GOT RESULTS.

Anecdotes aren't evidence.