How to get rid of this belly!?

I literally replied to a post in this thread that said you need 1g of protein per lb of body weight, as well as a calorie deficit.

There are numerous resources, as @emmathedilemma pointed out, that suggest this level of protein is necessary to avoid losing muscle while dieting.

It's physically impossible to consume this much without adding processed food (and I say this as an absolute gannet), and therefore I call bullshit.

You're supposed to have 0.8g of protein per kg.

If you're 75 kg you should be aiming for 60g of protein per day!

I've been told by a nutritionalist that I need 55g of protein a day.

I don't know who is telling you that you need 150 a day. Unless you're a competing body builder?!!

I don't think that adds up. I weight 75kg, they say 2g of protein per kilo (or 1g per lb in old money), so that's 150g. Any given meat, fish etc has about 25% protein in it, so a 200g chicken breast has 50g of protein.

I'm not going to eat the equivalent of three chicken breasts per day.

@TheLeadbetterLife i agree, i've been following RHfitness plan .....well I say following, I find it almost impossible to hit their macros without eating whey protein (it doesn't agree with me) and scoffing highly processed protein bars. They have me on 127g of protein per day. Today I've had a large pancake made with high protein soya milk, half an egg (the mix makes 2 portions), oats and I added a portion of flavourless pea protein to it, had a dollop of soft cheese with veg sticks for snack, a tin of tuna, a boiled egg and 2 veggie rice cakes with my lunch, will put peanut butter on a bagel later (don't get dinner til late tonight so i have a lighter lunch and a bigger snack in the afternoon), and I've got chicken in tonight's dinner......and I am still 28g of protein short for the day but running out of calories.

I don't know where you're getting half a kilo of meat from...

100g chicken breast is 31g protein. So most women will need 200g of chicken a day to hit target.

Not 500g

I'm supposed to eat 60g of protein a day for my weight.

Half a pack (90g) of morrisons ready to eat piri chicken breast is 27 g of protein. So pretty much half my daily target.

That's not a lot to eat at all. Are you getting your measurements mixed up?

Even with 90% of my stomach gone I can manage to hit my protein every day, with or without protein shakes and yogurts.

I mean a normal human diet in the sense of non-processed, you know, food. You can't tell me that it's not possible for a human to eat the required amount of nutrients without protein powder.

We're supposed to eat 9 or 10 pieces of fruit and veg per day apparently - that's the best part of a kilo of plant matter - plus half a kilo or so of meat / fish / eggs.

That's an insane amount of food. Something doesn't add up.

A normal human diet 😂

Well I've had a gastric sleeve so cannot eat a 'normal human diet' so I have protein shakes and yogurts.

It allows me to get a high amount of protein per day without eating a large amount of food (which I can't do)

And do you have a smart watch to track exercise and movement?

I don't want to eat processed food, and if this were a normal human diet it shouldn't be necessary. What did people do before the golden age of whey protein? In any case, it's still a huge amount of protein powder (which tastes disgusting).

I'm not sure what to advise about diet, I'll leave that to those more knowledgeable, but could you do the couch to 5k app and Parkrun. That would surely help?

I eat protein yogurts, protein bars, add protein powder to water

Am genuinely sacred to. I went in once and it was just full of blokes on machines so I just used the treadmill.

But it's the machines I need really for toning.

Wish we had a women's only near

Sorry to sidetrack on the thread, but how do you manage to eat this much protein every day? I've been trying to eat 2g per kilo of bodyweight, but it's so much. I worked out it's the equivalent of about 15 eggs per day, or 600g of meat. Obviously some of it comes in other forms, like nuts or yoghurt, but those are small fry compared to meat. How is it physically possible to eat this much and be in a calorie deficit? It doesn't add up.

This is me 84lbs down.

My belly has gone down alot but it's still the area I hold most fat.

I need to go to the gym but am scared to 😭

It’s simple, but also extremely hard.

Yes, I do. But my health issues, particularly my severe asthma, improved significantly when I lost the weight and started exercising regularly.
I used to use the asthma as an excuse for why I couldn't run, but as I've got fitter I've been able to decrease the amount of steroids I'm on.
I'll never be an Olympic athlete, but being fit and healthy is enough.

People build fat in different places, and the only way to get it off the first place it appears (and the last place it leaves) is to lower fat levels overall.

This is of course really hard to do, and to be successful you are going to need to find a way that works for you which increases your activity level and also reduces your calorie intake. There are any number of different plans, diets, schemes and so on, and most aren’t going to be right for you,

The key is finding one that is manageable enough to stick to.

It probably is though, have you tried accurately tracking calories? It's ok saying "I follow a healthy diet" but if you eat too much of even the healthy stuff you will still gain weight. You need to be tracking calories (by weighing everything you eat) to ensure you're in a net calorie deficit. If you do that accurately for 3 months and still don't loose any weight then I'd be going back to your GP.

If it was only as easy as being in a calorie deficit then nobody would be overweight and life would be lovely and simple!

‘Easy’ and ‘simple’ are not the same thing. Less calories than you need = weight loss. It really is that simple. People do not stay the same weight or gain weight if they don’t eat enough. It’s very simple science. If someone through the OP into an archaic prison where she only ate bread and water once a day, the belly would very quickly disappear, no doubt about it. That’s without exercise…

No one is saying it is easy though. Eating less is hard and frustrating, and often there is misinformation and misconceptions about portion sizes and how many calories are really in certain foods. It’s not easy at all - losing weight is about being informed, being honest with yourself and having will power. Not easy at all - but it is that simple.

So when someone with the OPs issue starts talking about just eating salad and chicken and getting carbs from only veg - there is either an extreme issue with portion size, copious amounts of salad cream that the OP isn’t aware will make a significant difference, or denial about alcohol and snacks.

80% of weight loss is diet.

I think you know how to lose weight- what you need to sort out is your will power and self-control. Easier said than done. Quickest way to lose weight is do Paleo or Atkins- Paleo is much healthier and on both you start to lose appetite if you can get through those early, difficult days.

Can you start to focus on something else rather than food? Yoga, walking for example?

Also, if there is bloating I would make a GP appointment to rule out anything serious. It’s a symptom of Ovarian cancer- and I’m not saying this to scare monger but I do think it’s best to be on the safe side.

I wouldn’t say it’s easy it’s bloody hard

It really is hard. If it was easy to exercise regularly and eat well then everyone would do it, as you say. Do I want to get up at 5.30am to go for a long run because it's the only time I'll fit it in that day? No, not really. I'd rather be in bed - but I know I'll feel great when I get back an hour later.

You choose your hard, though. Being overweight is hard, especially in this heat, and with small kids. I remember struggling with my breathing when I was overweight. And I was so sweaty as well, especially at night. That's not easy.