BEER BELLY

wormwood1

Whats the best way to lose a beer belly,i gave up drinking for 8 months and noticed a small reduction in size of belly but nothing major.i know sit ups work but it takes so long,any ideas or any other experiences please share

Caliden

If it was easy nobody would have a beer belly.

With men, the belly is the first place for weight to be visible and the last place for it to be lost when losing weight.

An adjustment in your diet should see a reduction in overall body weight and a visible reduction in the beer belly but once the belly is gone don't expect a 6 pack to be there if you're not doing any exercise.

wormwood1

in relation to diet,in the past i have reduced the amount that i eat but binge over the weekend,i feel like i deserve a reward after a hard weeks work,find it very difficult to diet.

hardCopy

wormwood1 wrote: »

in relation to diet,in the past i have reduced the amount that i eat but binge over the weekend,i feel like i deserve a reward after a hard weeks work,find it very difficult to diet.

Spread the 'effort' more evenly throughout the week. There's no point eating like a sparrow five days a week if it leaves you ravenous and demoralised by the weekend.

Eating well also doesn't have to mean going hungry all the time. Learn to love green veg and use them to make your meals bigger without adding much in the way of calories.

Also, sit ups do not get rid of a beer belly.

Dieting doesn't mean starving yourself and being miserable, and he did say adjust not cut it all out
Eat plenty of meat and veg and a bit less bread and pasta if applicable. And maybe adjust your thinking about food as a reward. E.g., is it really a reward if you feel crap afterwards. or find nicer things you could bake yourself for example.

guile4582

good point...and again rewarding yourself is allowed too. its a weird one, but you as individual know your own body and you know what you are eating, there is no hard and fast rule. be sensible and have a varied diet

You should look into couch25k. It's a pretty fantastic program, specially designed for those who would not be runners. It's a 9 week program that would end in you being able to jog 5k without stopping. I'm coming up to week 7 and the difference in my general well-being and health is crazy.

rubadub

I do not find alcohol has much effect on my weight, studies have shown in heavy drinkers the calories have far less impact than from the likes of sugary foods.

But if you are drinking you might visit a chipper or gorge on stuff at home while drunk.

Transform

wormwood1 wrote: »

in relation to diet,in the past i have reduced the amount that i eat but binge over the weekend,i feel like i deserve a reward after a hard weeks work,find it very difficult to diet.

so do i, Im on your team, i just do it less than you

al22

Alcohol means extra calories? big meals too
Salty food keeps water / poor or damaged kidneys and liver keeps water too
All together = big belly

Vegetable as carrots and any sugar/sweets intake increasing insulin production and appetite/hunger
Extra food go to be stored as a fat on your belly

Eating a sweet/sugar or fatty food separately - no problem, it goes into blood/energy and not much impact or you can loose weight too
Eating sweet/sugar+fat together is bad, you gain weight

Blacktie.

al22 wrote: »

Alcohol means extra calories? big meals too
Salty food keeps water / poor or damaged kidneys and liver keeps water too
All together = big belly

Vegetable as carrots and any sugar/sweets intake increasing insulin production and appetite/hunger
Extra food go to be stored as a fat on your belly

Eating a sweet/sugar or fatty food separately - no problem, it goes into blood/energy and not much impact or you can loose weight too
Eating sweet/sugar+fat together is bad, you gain weight

Jesus man english please.

al22

al22 wrote: »

Eating a sweet/sugar or fatty food separately - no problem, it goes into blood/energy and not much impact or you can loose weight too
Eating sweet/sugar+fat together is bad, you gain weight

*looks at meringue and cream*
*looks at post*

Alf Veedersane

bluewolf wrote: »

*looks at meringue and cream*
*looks at post*

Cut in half, eat separately, win.

Mellor

al22 wrote: »

Alcohol means extra calories? big meals too
Salty food keeps water / poor or damaged kidneys and liver keeps water too
All together = big belly

Vegetable as carrots and any sugar/sweets intake increasing insulin production and appetite/hunger
Extra food go to be stored as a fat on your belly

Eating a sweet/sugar or fatty food separately - no problem, it goes into blood/energy and not much impact or you can loose weight too
Eating sweet/sugar+fat together is bad, you gain weight

There's no salt in beer.
Beer doesn't give you a beer belly.
"Water keeping kidneys and liver" doesn't give you a beer belly either.

Rough Sleeper

Caliden wrote: »

With men, the belly is the first place for weight to be visible and the last place for it to be lost when losing weight.

Lower back says hi.

mcbobbyb

If you are dieting and then bingeing at the weekends bit still lossing weight then thats fine. Keep track of your weight weekly and find out. Theres no point putting in the effort during the week if you ruin it at the weekend. Whats your binge like on a weekend. I can have a few beers and a meal out without it doing any harm.

Kerryfootball

I was in this position last Christmas maybe my experience might offer some help

I was training but couldn't loose the weight.
I was 80kg and 5,6 height.
Desperately unhappy and fed up, suffering IBS stress and overall being fed up.

During my S&C training with the club I failed 4/6 flexibility and balance tests.
I was speaking with a friend and he advised me to watch my sugar intake.

This got me thinking and I was stunned when I researched the effects of Sugar. Obviously I knew fizzy drinks etc were bad but it was the amounts of Sugar in other processed foods that amazed me.

I cut out Sugar and the weight just fell off me I dropped down to 64kg in 2 months.
Added to that my training went up several levels, I completed the Dingle Adventure race 47k, .

Cut out Sugar and the beer belly will go.
80% diet and 20% exercise in my opinion.

Hope this helps..

colossus-x

The best way to loose a beer belly is to stop pouring beer into it.

DarkoT

Only hard diet and a lot of exercise will help you lose that beer belly....

Saipanne

Kerryfootball wrote: »

I was in this position last Christmas maybe my experience might offer some help

I was training but couldn't loose the weight.
I was 80kg and 5,6 height.
Desperately unhappy and fed up, suffering IBS stress and overall being fed up.

During my S&C training with the club I failed 4/6 flexibility and balance tests.
I was speaking with a friend and he advised me to watch my sugar intake.

This got me thinking and I was stunned when I researched the effects of Sugar. Obviously I knew fizzy drinks etc were bad but it was the amounts of Sugar in other processed foods that amazed me.

I cut out Sugar and the weight just fell off me I dropped down to 64kg in 2 months.
Added to that my training went up several levels, I completed the Dingle Adventure race 47k, .

Cut out Sugar and the beer belly will go.
80% diet and 20% exercise in my opinion.

Hope this helps..

Any good links for the amount of sugar in food?

Blacktie.

Saipanne wrote: »

Any good links for the amount of sugar in food?

MyFitnessPal App

Saipanne

Blacktie. wrote: »

MyFitnessPal App

Already using it!

I just focus on the calories bit. I guess I should focus more on sugar!

Kerryfootball

Forget the Apps and start reading the labels.
If you don't understand the ingredients on the labels then don't buy it.

Simple rule Sugar is in pretty much all processed foods.

Start cooking you're own meals that way you will know exactly what you're eating.

It takes work but eventually it becomes easier.

Saipanne

Kerryfootball wrote: »

Forget the Apps and start reading the labels.
If you don't understand the ingredients on the labels then don't buy it.

Simple rule Sugar is in pretty much all processed foods.

Start cooking you're own meals that way you will know exactly what you're eating.

It takes work but eventually it becomes easier.

I tend not to eat processed food, and I cook my own fresh meals. It's the snacking that kills me.

Saipanne

Saipanne wrote: »

I tend not to eat processed food, and I cook my own fresh meals. It's the snacking that kills me.

What do you snack on?

Saipanne

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What do you snack on?

All manner of crap. Crisps, chocolate, etc. It's no mystery why I put on weight.

On the plus side, since I started using the calories app, my consumption of garbage has reduced significantly.

I'll use that running app that was recommended next. Sounds like what I need.

Saipanne

Saipanne wrote: »

All manner of crap. Crisps, chocolate, etc. It's no mystery why I put on weight.

On the plus side, since I started using the calories app, my consumption of garbage has reduced significantly.

I'll use that running app that was recommended next. Sounds like what I need.

Dude, you said you tend not to eat processed food, but snacking is eating so you do eat processed foods!

Cut out all processed food. All of it. Just don't buy it. You don't need to check labels if there are no labels

It can be really tough, but if you have healthy alternatives at hand it can be done, do it for a while and you won't want the crap any more.

Saipanne

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dude, you said you tend not to eat processed food, but snacking is eating so you do eat processed foods!

Cut out all processed food. All of it. Just don't buy it. You don't need to check labels if there are no labels

It can be really tough, but if you have healthy alternatives at hand it can be done, do it for a while and you won't want the crap any more.

Hahaha! Sorry, you're right. I meant when I make a meal, it's from scratch with raw ingredients. But yeah, snacks are processed as hell. I'm trying to cut down, and I've done better, of late.

Kerryfootball

When you cook what's your average meal like?

cloudatlas

Saipanne wrote: »

But yeah, snacks are processed as hell. I'm trying to cut down, and I've done better, of late.

Buy berries, nuts, naked bars. Make crudites and health dips to fill you up.

JJJJNR

wormwood1 wrote: »

Whats the best way to lose a beer belly,i gave up drinking for 8 months and noticed a small reduction in size of belly but nothing major.i know sit ups work but it takes so long,any ideas or any other experiences please share

You could try mountain biking, its fun, very high impact cardiovascular excercise, your basically working every joint and muscle in your body on the climbs and decents, by carrying your own weight up steep hills and down over roots and rocks, its great, there's no need to go fast downhil either.

Obviously running is way more focused on the legs, so your upper body strenght won't improve and your belly won't do down, if you just run and don't do any other excerise.

Saipanne

Saipanne wrote: »

Hahaha! Sorry, you're right. I meant when I make a meal, it's from scratch with raw ingredients. But yeah, snacks are processed as hell. I'm trying to cut down, and I've done better, of late.

Don't cut down, cut out

Someone had a deadly quote somewhere on here....I'll be back with some inspirational quotes because I know how everyone just LOVES those :P

wildlifeboy

JJJJNR wrote: »

your belly won't do down, if you just run and don't do any other excerise.

Eeeh what??? of course it will. don't mind him. I have seen plenty of people start jogging and lose their belly!

Kerryfootball

If you remember the 80/20 rule you will see improvement.
80% Diet 20% exercise.
All the running in the world won't matter if you're not eating correctly.

Zillah

JJJJNR wrote: »

Obviously running is way more focused on the legs, so your upper body strenght won't improve and your belly won't do down, if you just run and don't do any other excerise.

You could lie in bed all day every day and as long as you eat fewer calories than you consume then your body fat will go down. This is very basic biology and you shouldn't be giving out advice if you don't even know that much.

Obviously exercise is necessary for overall health but being a healthy weight is about caloric intake.

Mellor

JJJJNR wrote: »

You could try mountain biking, its fun, very high impact cardiovascular excercise, your basically working every joint and muscle in your body on the climbs and decents,

Eh? Not really.
There's some upper body required, but not every muscle. And there a pretty big lower lower body bias, and within that an anterior bias.
As for joints, upper boast joints more through a tiny range of there ROM. Hip extension is limited ROM.

Obviously running is way more focused on the legs, so your upper body strenght won't improve and your belly won't do down, if you just run and don't do any other excerise.

That's not true. Burning fat from an area of your body has nothing to do with the area you are working.

Magenta

JJJJNR wrote: »

You could try mountain biking, its fun, very high impact cardiovascular excercise

Cycling is zero impact. You're off the ground.
I'm not even going to address the rest of your posts because others already have.

JJJJNR

Zero impact? your bouncing your bike off rocks, trees and boulders, thats high impact and will strenghten your joints, and improve your upper body strenght, its low impact on your legs as its the upper body that is doing all the work when you are trying to steer the bike downhill at speed. Its a full core workout, whoever thinks its not is doing it wrong.

JJJJNR

Zillah wrote: »

You could lie in bed all day every day and as long as you eat fewer calories than you consume then your body fat will go down. This is very basic biology and you shouldn't be giving out advice if you don't even know that much.

Obviously exercise is necessary for overall health but being a healthy weight is about caloric intake.

If you read the OP there is no mention of lowering the caloric intake, obvious post is obvious.

JJJJNR

wildlifeboy wrote: »

Eeeh what??? of course it will. don't mind him. I have seen plenty of people start jogging and lose their belly!

It won't you need to diet also, the OP does not mention changing their diet.

JJJJNR

Kerryfootball wrote: »

If you remember the 80/20 rule you will see improvement.
80% Diet 20% exercise.
All the running in the world won't matter if you're not eating correctly.

This.

Alf Veedersane

JJJJNR wrote: »

It won't you need to diet also, the OP does not mention changing their diet.

You still said the OP's belly won't go down if he 'just run and don't do any other excerise'

fed up sick and tired

Blacktie. wrote: »

Jesus man english please.

What the heck is that ?

If you're going to go down the road of chastising people for their English, when they're just doing their best to contribute... then at least make a cogent sentence yourself

As to the op... the first step before any calorie-counting or sit-ups is to address and change this kind of thinking...

in relation to diet,in the past i have reduced the amount that i eat but binge over the weekend,i feel like i deserve a reward after a hard weeks work,find it very difficult to diet.

JJJJNR

Just to clarify "if you don't do any other excerise or diet".

Magenta

JJJJNR wrote: »

the OP does not mention changing their diet.

wormwood1 wrote: »

i gave up drinking for 8 months

Look, when you're in a hole, stop digging.

JJJJNR

?? he does not mention changing diet, they have given up drink 8 months prev, obviously that didnt work. Only person digging is you.

Alzo90

you would think there should be a sticky for this kind of carry on.

Seriously, well done for keeping off the porter for a long time.

Tar.Aldarion

What you are saying is still nonsense, if he burns more calories that he ingests then he will lose the belly, it doesn't matter if it is diet or exercise, or what that exercise is.

Alzo90

Its probably best to introduce resistance training (weight training, body weight training) and aerobic and anaerobic conditioning (cycling, running, sprinting, swimming) while on the caloric deficit to minimize muscle loss. It will probably make you feel really good aswell unless there is something wrong with your diet or recovery or bloods.

JJJJNR

Its not nonsense at all, you need a full body work out to loose your belly fat, running alone won't help.

Tar.Aldarion

Good advice, I'm on a 160000 calorie deficit in the last year and you do notice the muscle loss (weak like baby), do some work to prevent it now and again.