Loosing weight but not the belly

xabi

I started an exercise program 2 mopnths ago, at the start if weighed in at 14stone 2LBs, since then i have steadily been loosing weight, got down to about 13Stone 12LBs. For various reasons i stopped going to the gym for 3 weeks and could see my gut getting bigger, i was sure i had put a few pounds back on. I returned to the gym a few days ago and jumped onto the scales, i am now 13 1/2 stone. is this possible as i dont feel like i have lost any weight since stopping the gym?

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The_Goose

Quite possible the affects of your training would continue burning the fat after you last session kinda doing the working then waiting for your body to catch up! Your stomach is the hardest place on your body to lose weight from because when you do a sit up say your abs will draw energy from the food in your stomach rather than use the fat for energy! Keep it up tho cause stopping will only allow your body time to rebuild up the fat!

john

logic1

The_Goose wrote:

Quite possible the affects of your training would continue burning the fat after you last session kinda doing the working then waiting for your body to catch up!

Not really, he probably raised his Basal Metabolic Rate so is now burning more energy on a daily basis but still taking in the same amount of calories so net result is a calorie deficit and weight loss.

Your stomach is the hardest place on your body to lose weight from

Not the hardest as there's no hard or easy places to loose weight from but it is typically one of the last places men will loose fat due to genetic placement of fat in males.

because when you do a sit up say your abs will draw energy from the food in your stomach rather than use the fat for energy! Keep it up tho cause stopping will only allow your body time to rebuild up the fat!

john

This is just totally wrong. Doing a situp will in no way cause you to use energy from the food in your stomach. All food has to be processed before it can be used for energy.

Even if we consider the impossibility of using energy from "the food in your stomach" you'd still be using energy, so your body would still have exactly the same calories deficit as if it used energy from fat stores.

This harks back to the argument about running on an empty stomach as you'll be short on glycogen and use fat stores directly for energy. The fact is even if you used your glycogen stores that energy still has to be replaced somehow so you will still be in a deficit and loosing weight regardless.

.logic.

Transform

Could have been that the time you weighed yourself was when you had drank lots of water. Did you weigh yourself at the same time, same state etc?
Also due to lack of training you possibly lost muscle as well as maybe a little fat if you were eating less?
Were you dehydrated when you weighed yourself.

Drawing energy from the stomach!! Just amazing, amazing. Its myths like that which cause poor fools to do a hundreds of abdominal exercises and still look fat and bloated.