Big belly

[Crankarm]

It's not rocket science. Eat less sh1t and do hard exercise frequently. Anything else is just being in a state of denial as most blubberists are.

 

[screenman]

Crankarm, you are so right. Brilliant post.

 

[henshaw11]

Maybe you need to strengthen your tummy muscles, if I relax totally I'm the same, but over the years I have trained myself to hold my tummy muscles in all the time without thinking.

I started doing the same about 20 yrs ago when I realised that a mate - who was getting a pot - and I were a similar shape. Not so much holding it in as just maintaining a little tension, zipping up a little Pilates-stylee - I suspect a lot of blokes (well, not just blokes..) just kinda 'let it all hang out'. I can emulate a pot but I have to push it out quite a bit.

Doing Pilates for the last 10 (?) yrs probably hasn't done any harm, but I didn't start that 'til about I was 38 or so.

As to why a pot's *suddenly* appeared (if I've read correctly), that's a bit more puzzling..

 

[Adasta]

Fat goes to the stomach first on men, then to the chest; stomach fat is the last thing you will be able to shift.

 

[Crankarm]

Fat goes to the stomach first on men, then to the chest; stomach fat is the last thing you will be able to shift.

Aren't you forgetting that internal organs also become coated in an extra thick layer of fat as well that reduces their performance and longevity? Like the heart and heart disese.

 

[twobiker]

I started to cycle again to lose the fat gut part , I didn't want to be the fat guy on the beach with my kids, anyway I cut out chocolate and beer and the gut is reducing, I ride every day, I can't run, knee problems, it is a constant battle but I have lost 5kg, now 88kg and dropped 4inches off the waist.

 

[calibanzwei]

32 and sub-16 stone - have done the whole holding it in thing, probably have decent abs underneath there by now
Core fat is veeeeeery slow to shift, BUT! I have noticed a tapering from chest to waist was wasn't there a year ago.
If you think you can't see a reduction in the mirror, turn 90°

 

[Ibi]

alot of people say reduce the carbs and eat protein and veg

what sorta meals would you recommend eating?

 

[calibanzwei]

Reduce the carbs to much and you won't have the energy to perform - its a careful balancing act. Veg are just good, protein for muscle repair after exercise. Balanced diet, don't do to much of one thing
There are those on here that can probably offer much better/detailed explanations.

 

[Crankarm]

A healthy balanced diet. What bit about healthy and balanced don't over weight people understand? It's not rocket science. You have had to do be living in a cave, a very big cave, with a McDs at one end not to recognise what is healthy food. Don't eat processed, fast food crap, eg McDs, pizzas, crisps, cakes and more crap. Stay off booze and fags.

What you do eat control your portions sizes and do hard exercise daily. You will lose weight.

It really is this simple.

 

[fossyant]

It's called being over 30. You have to watch the food. It's a bugger !

 

[screenman]

I have met very few fat people who blame themselves for getting fat, it was always somebody else's fault

 

[ayceejay]

I doubt that there is one answer that fits all so I am throwing out a wheat free diet as a possibility. Also you should take care to measure your body some other way than just by standing on the scales. I fractured my pelvis three weeks ago and watched my diet carefully so as not to gain weight while inactive: I have lost 13 lbs. The pain killers I took were also a diuretic which no doubt accounts for the 2 inches off my belly but the muscle loss on my legs is the reason for the weight loss.

 

[Crankarm]

It's called being over 30. You have to watch the food. It's a bugger !

Fossy that's the prob, some people have been looking too much at the wrong foods. So long as you only look and do not touch that's fine ;@)

Mind you there are plenty of really fat people under 30 as well, even kids which is scary - mini sumos.

 

[fossyant]

Fossy that's the prob, some people have been looking too much at the wrong foods. So long as you only look and do not touch that's fine ;@)

Mind you there are plenty of really fat people under 30 as well, even kids which is scary - mini sumos.

There is a lad at my son's primary that is huge (proper bulging face) - mum's 'normal size' so I wonder what the hell she's been letting him eat.