Need your help...again

TerrorFirmer

Okay, its me again, back to whine and moan. Basically, I've having trouble with my weight. Well, more my fat really to be honest. I'm 6ft or thereabouts, about 75kg/11.5 stone.

I've had this problem with my stomach fat not shifting for the past six months but I continued on with my diet and workouts hoping it'd shift eventually, but unfortunatley that isn't happening at all. The thing is, I'm not overweight to look at. I look like a normal guy. My waist is about 32" and I look slim. Ive always naturally sucked in my gut somewhat since I was small - its something I do subconsiously - but at completly rest my stomach is pretty much like a tubby beer belly. If I flex my stomach I have a really visible six pack so I just want to get rid of this crappy stomach.

Anyway. I think my diet is ok, at least, not one that would be able to sustain a pot belly.

Porridge and brown bread for breakfast, banana at 11, brown bread and cheese or chicken at lunch, fruit at 3, dinner of meat, veg and potato in evening, and then sometimes protein shake at night (depending on whether been to gym)

As well as that I go to the gym every second day, and do a fairly rounded session of weights for 40 minutes or so with a bit of cardio most days, as well as push ups and situps on the days I'm not at the gym, so I do get a good bit of exercise

So I'm a bit stumped as to why this stomach won't shift. Last time I asked I was advised to be patient and let my body do its thing - which was fair enough as I had lost alot of weight recently and I'm a pretty impatient guy to be honest, but now its been months and not a hint of difference - My legs and arms are changing shape all the time, but my stomach....bleugh, not so much as a milimeter.

This is a picture of me recently at the galway beers - I'm pretty much a cocktail stick in comparison to all you guys here but if I could only get my feckin stomach down I'd be in decent shape relatively speaking so this is really getting me glum considering the decent effort I'm putting in with regards to both exercise and diet!

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8049/havokvm8.jpg

Any advice? Thanks lads. And lassies.

Dermington

AFAIK bread can cause the body to retain water so try not eating bread for a couple of weeks and see what happens?

Just a suggestion.

daveirl

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t-ha

HavoK wrote:

Anyway. I think my diet is ok, at least, not one that would be able to sustain a pot belly.

Something you have to consider is that if you have lost weight in the past, you are now a smaller person, and unless you have added a substantial amount of lean mass your calorie requirements to lose weight will be smaller than they used to be. 10 - 12 kcals per lb of bodyweight is pretty typical for fat-loss. From the looks of you you're really talking about the last bits of BF which are, unfortunately, the most difficult to get rid of. Something like what Daveirl has posted is extreme, but it will work fast.

accensi0n

That article says its for people who are about 12% bf.
How would I go about getting my bf% tested if I wasn't a member of a gym. I rang 2 gyms yesterday and they said I'd have to be a member.

Sorry about hijacking your thread a bit havok.

I'm 5' 8" and 63 Kg's, have a bit of fat that im looking to shed and make myself lean.

From that info, do you think I would be above or below 15%? My guess is that without a test its just too hard to tell......:)

cheers.

daveirl

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MicraBoy

Give this a shot - http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1150209

Ok that is a bit extreme. But as the article says you should probably follow the precision nutrition guidelines the basis of which is the 7 good habits. Actually there are 10 but you have to pay for the other three

7 habits

If you are going to lose that belly, following them 90% of the time is likely to work.

daveirl

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MicraBoy

True but the pics in the original link really emphasis the difference diet can make. And St. Tropez of course. Havok may be you should get yourself down to Chartbusters for a tan top up?

Fixed the link btw, thanks.

TerrorFirmer

Thanks guys for the help, appreciated as always.

daveirl

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