1 tip of a flat belly!

Lose 2 stone in belly fat in 1 month!! :pac:

Simple maths.
If calories intaken is greater than your output then you'll gain weight.

By the way someone in my area makes £40,000 a month working part time from home.

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Just the weird old tip?

amacca wrote: »

its never simple....at least its not that simple for some

I eat like a horse (and unhealthily/fattening stuff at times) and at times I'm active and other times I'm not, yet I always stay around the same weight and have very close to the aforementioned flat belly (presumably because of metabolism)........

I see other people with more active lifestyles that eat healthier and still just seem to be more rotund/flabby than me

its got a lot to do with it yes but its not everything

You just agreed with my point!!
Whether you're exercising like crazy or not, your body is using up the energy you're feeding it somehow.

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

My brother is 28, 5 feet 10 and 9.5 stone. He eats a full fried breakfast with 6 slices of bread every morning, a full frozen pizza for lunch, a meat and two veg dinner (very large portion) and gets himself two big mac meals most evenings. In between he drinks at leat alitre of coke, 2 litres of milk and eats his way through a double packet of fig rolls most days. He sits on his arse from one end of the day to the next.


It is definitely easier for some than it is for others.

So if he had to fast for a blood test he would probably die with that need of food. That's like 4,500 - 5,000 cals. Only a very big guy training very hard every day would need that and maintain weight.

Sauve wrote: »

Simple maths.
If calories intaken is greater than your output then you'll gain weight.

This is basically correct, with two additional pieces of info required:
1: You can manipulate your metabolism to trick it into continually burning energy constantly without regard for how much energy it actually has to use. Think of it like a drunk person using their overdraft to buy another round with their ATM card, but not realising they're using their overdraft.

2: Protein calories only barely count as calories since the amount of energy required to break them down into amino acids is almost equal to the amount of energy they give back in return. So while restricting calories and upping exercise, prioritize eating food that has a high protein content.

And in case anyone doubts my credibility, I was formerly an obese (224lbs, hardly any muscle ) teenager who fell in love with a girl in May 2007 and dropped to 140lbs by the following August (when we'd be going back to school) in order to give myself a chance. And I dropped to that level without ever feeling like I'd starved myself - in fact, one of the main rules is that if you feel hunger pangs, your body is going to start conserving energy so you're better off having a bunch of small snacks throughout the day than two or three big meals.

Little tricks like that go a LONG way. Another simple one is that if you're already getting your 8 glasses of water a day, drop an ice cube into each of them and let it cool down. Your body uses energy heating up the water before it can use it for anything, and it's possible to burn off about 80 calories a day from that if you're consistent with it.

Always have a bit of protein right before bed as this will keep your metabolism running high throughout the night.
Eat breakfast AS SOON as you get up, don't do anything before - your metabolism shuts down while asleep and it won't start back up until you have your first meal.
Build muscle by lifting weights - the more muscle you have, the more calories your body requires per day even if you're just sitting doing nothing.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

This is basically correct, with two additional pieces of info required:
1: You can manipulate your metabolism to trick it into continually burning energy constantly without regard for how much energy it actually has to use. Think of it like a drunk person using their overdraft to buy another round with their ATM card, but not realising they're using their overdraft.

2: Protein calories only barely count as calories since the amount of energy required to break them down into amino acids is almost equal to the amount of energy they give back in return. So while restricting calories and upping exercise, prioritize eating food that has a high protein content.

And in case anyone doubts my credibility, I was formerly an obese (224lbs, hardly any muscle ) teenager who fell in love with a girl in May 2007 and dropped to 140lbs by the following August (when we'd be going back to school) in order to give myself a chance. And I dropped to that level without ever feeling like I'd starved myself - in fact, one of the main rules is that if you feel hunger pangs, your body is going to start conserving energy so you're better off having a bunch of small snacks throughout the day than two or three big meals.

Little tricks like that go a LONG way. Another simple one is that if you're already getting your 8 glasses of water a day, drop an ice cube into each of them and let it cool down. Your body uses energy heating up the water before it can use it for anything, and it's possible to burn off about 80 calories a day from that if you're consistent with it.

And the girl part ?