Fatty stomach

mary_hayes

Hi
I'm slim except for fat on my stomach that I just can't shift. I do an hours fast walk in the morning and an hours fast walk in the evening and cycle also, and I don't eat rubbishy foods or snacks. I've started sit ups and they're the worst! is there any method of doing situps or equipment I could get to make them even a bit easier? cheers

IamtheWalrus

I have the same issue and the advice I get is that the big belly is fat. Doing sit-ups will give you muscle behind the fat but the fat will remain, pushing it further out if anything.

To get rid of the fat you need to burn it off. 'Simple' as that. Keep the exercising. It won't drop off easily. It'll take time and effort.

Basically, the big belly is large fat cells. When you don't exercise enough, your body stores the fat you take in via food and stores them in fat cells (think of fat cells as deflated balloons, when your body stores fat in there, the balloon inflates). When you exercise, your body needs energy. It will find this energy in your fat cells/stores. So the more you exercise, the smaller the fat cells become, the smaller your belly will become. If you are taking in less calories/fat than you burn, you belly will shrink. If you burn less than you take in via food, your body won't need the energy from your fat cells and they will stay the same size.

Do listen to other's advice too to verify what I've said.

Frogdog

OP, post up a sample day's diet and we'll see if it's up to scratch.

As the previous poster said, sit-ups won't help too much.