Same boat buddy, as in, im trying my damdest to trim my mid section.
I go gym 3-5 times a week, 2 with personal trainer, im working much harder then i ever have, yet i found losing fat much easier in my 20s. Early 30s now, not nearly getting the same results. Though I got to admit i do eat and drink more dairy then previously, my latte's and cappachinos intake has increased drastically.
My legs and back have blown up nicely, but stomach remains. Im now convinced the sure way to lose fat is calorie counting and to be consistent. Might look into it.
Same boat buddy, as in, im trying my damdest to trim my mid section.
I go gym 3-5 times a week, 2 with personal trainer, im working much harder then i ever have, yet i found losing fat much easier in my 20s. Early 30s now, not nearly getting the same results. Though I got to admit i do eat and drink more dairy then previously, my latte's and cappachinos intake has increased drastically.
My legs and back have blown up nicely, but stomach remains. Im now convinced the sure way to lose fat is calorie counting and to be consistent. Might look into it.
Intermittent fasting or just fasting and HIIT. Please don't reduce your calorie intake. That's just bad advice. The only thing you need to take out of your diet is processed carbohydrates.
Abs are made in the kitchen..
How's your posture?
A bad posture gives emphasis to the gut.
Try doing some glutes and lower back exercises and don't forget to do static stretches as well.
From my experience men tend to overlook those sets of muscles and exercises.
If calorie counting gets tough, I will shill for soylent for a second. It's cut down grocery costs and makes meals fast while being easy to measure out
That's only partially true. You still need to do an intense ab workout to get them looking all large and ripped.
Squats, Deadlifts. That shit goes a long way in building muscle and burning calories.
The statement "abs are made in the kitchen" is most often used by relatively high bf% gym goers who likely have decent abdominal muscle-mass hidden under ~20-25% bf.
Since being "ripped" is a product of the ratio of musclemass to bf%, the statement obviously won't be true for very "just fat" or very skinny people starting from scratch.
I hate this saying so much.
Yoga too.
I need the same advice, but tailored to a 40 year-old. I hit 40 and my metabolism seemed to notice. I used to be able to do tweaks to my diet and up my exercise slighly and shed 10 lbs. Now I do that and I'm going through all the misery of a restricted diet while my weight is stubbornly flatlined.
Aging sucks.
People often hate to be told the truth.
The most important part of getting in shape is to care about what you eat, Nutrition is 80% of the work you need to do.
You're complaining like it's a bad thing.. :3The problem you've described is what happens with my ass. I'm 175 pounds and lost a bunch of weight to get there, but still have a bit of a fat ass.
Outdated advice. The carbohydrate - insulin hypothesis is dead in the water, and conversion of carbs to fat is rare.
I went from 253lbs in may
To 174lbs now
That is depressing.I need the same advice, but tailored to a 40 year-old. I hit 40 and my metabolism seemed to notice. I used to be able to do tweaks to my diet and up my exercise slighly and shed 10 lbs. Now I do that and I'm going through all the misery of a restricted diet while my weight is stubbornly flatlined.
Aging sucks.
But being in a caloric deficit is the only way to lose weight? You can eat junk food all you want while still losing weight—as long as you're under your TDEE, though this wouldn't be healthy if that's all you're eating.
As for the OP, you just have to keep eating less and doing cardio. If you want to go into the specifics, use this TDEE calculator, subtract 500, launch a calorie tracker like MyFitnessPal, and start tracking your food intake and aim for that 500 calorie deficit each day. Perhaps there were a lot of days you went over your TDEE, hence not being able to see results consistently.
I need the same advice, but tailored to a 40 year-old. I hit 40 and my metabolism seemed to notice. I used to be able to do tweaks to my diet and up my exercise slighly and shed 10 lbs. Now I do that and I'm going through all the misery of a restricted diet while my weight is stubbornly flatlined.
Aging sucks.
People often hate to be told the truth.
The most important part of getting in shape is to care about what you eat, Nutrition is 80% of the work you need to do.
What? A calorie deficit is the only way you can lose weight. Sure, you can do it through exercise but its much easier through diet and its still calories in calories out.Intermittent fasting or just fasting and HIIT. Please don't reduce your calorie intake. That's just bad advice. The only thing you need to take out of your diet is processed carbohydrates.
Please stop saying "tummy."
May of 2017?
Because it's fine work having lost that weight. But it's serious work to have dropped that in what...5 months?
I've dropped 65 pounds in the last 12 months and I still look dumpy at 6'3" and 205.
Arms and legs are great but you can barely see my abs and I carry my fat high (chest, under arms)
If I upped my cardio time I bet I could get rid of it but I'm not trying to impress anyone right now. I'm happy I've lost the weight.
You may lose weight initially but eventually your body will recognize that your calorie input does not equal your calorie output and it will lower your basal metabolic rate according.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html
The amazing thing is that the "researchers" are shocked by this. I mean nutritional science is their one job. That goes to show you that people are still stuck on ideas on weight loss that have been prevalent for several decades but do not actually work.
It's also interesting that the more people tried to calorie restrict in the more hungry or ravenous you get. Hunger hormones such as ghrelin increases in the chronic phase of calorie restriction while general satiety hormones reduce. Your brain is almost diverted to constantly thinking about food to hit it's quota so to speak.