Because I’m running 17-22 twice a week, and eating right. No beer. My weight comes off from my muscles and arms, it looks like, and the gut flap, just sits there surviving .
Don’t get it.
Hardest stuff in the world to remove! Lot’s of money given to your favorite plastic surgeon will do it, though.
Supposedly there are ointments (I love that word) that can help localize fat removal, or rather, reduction by drawing the water out of the fat through the skin. I’ll have to get more information from a certified P.T./Bodybuilder here in the office (he’s a bit of a whack, though.)
This P.T. claims the best way to lose weight is to do heavy weights. So heavy, you can only do about ten reps. By adding muscle, you raise your metabolism, which in turn burns the energy stored in fat. Again, he’s a bodybuilder.
The only thing those ointments will make thinner is your wallet.
Weight loss needs to happen slowly. Lots of exercise helps, but at the end of the day, you need to burn more calories than you eat.
Once you have lost weight everywhere else, you really will lose it around the middle. It is a long slow process. If you can lose a couple pounds a month, your are doing great. For example, I am going to try to lose one pound a month for the next six months until Lake Placid. Rapid weight loss is meaningless. It is the slow stuff that counts.
Try not to get discouraged.
1 lb of fat is 3500 calories, 20 min of running (for a 175lb person) is approx 250 calories. It takes time to lose weight, you just need to run a caloric deficit for a sustained period.
Why would our bodies NOT pull fat and water from that area FIRST.
I don’t get it.
Our bodies are designed to be survival machines. Since fat has more calories than muscle our bodies want to store fat as much as possible in case of a famine (or Krispy Kreme closes). A combination of genetics and gender predisposes one to where it wants to accumulate most (and disappear from the least). The combination of exercise and smart eating forces our bodies to do something it doesn’t really want to do, get lean. And it will reverse that process the first chance it gets, like now, between seasons, when we take a little time off and enjoy Christmas goodies.
Not only that, but there’s likely more fat around your midsection than your arms and legs. Even if you’re losing it from the gut at the same rate, it’s not going to be as evident to the eye at first.