Aibu to ask how to loose lower belly fat

[Coldshoulders]

So all my life I been a slim person, ate what I like when I like never worried about my weight, never gained weight was never an issue until recently! Started gaining weight which looks to me like it's all lower stomach! Some days I actually look like I'm with child (not pregnant btw). So the last few months I feel as if I have piled loads of weight on my stomach area. Tried to eat more healthy, tried doing exercise still feel like I'm a balloon. Any tips or help for loosing my pouch? School run takes 2 hours a day I would say I'm active and don't eat too much junk so God noes but nothing will shift this weight and it's getting me down x

This is classic when you eat a high carb and sugar diet.

Weight loss / gain / maintenance is all about hormones mainly insulin.

You are using too much insulin and therefore getting the classic white fat around your belly

Cut carbs right down (20g to 50g a day) and if you think a calorie is just a calorie, you could do with some info about actually how the body metabolises the different macro foods. Try ‘The obesity code’ by Jason Fung. Or ‘good calories, bad calories’ by Gary

We are much more complex than calories in, calories out.

I thought my belly was just an inevitable part of getting older. It’s not. No such thing as Middle Aged spread here.

I find weight training a much better option to dieting as it still allows me to eat a reasonable amount. I'm a bloke but there are lots of slim women at my gym who seem to have success with this approach.

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Very helpful

OP
Definitely cut out on alcohol it’s notorious for thickening waistline.

I looked into this a while back OP. I started weight training and have seen a difference but still have a belly. From what I have read it seems to be if I give up sugar, alcohol and carbs I might see some improvement. I’ve decided to keep up the exercise but also keep the belly rather than deprive myself of anything that actually makes life enjoyable!

Exercise won’t do it

It’s all about your diet

Boxing, real boxing in a boxing club , did really reinforce my abs, so maybe this is something you could consider.
On the diet front, cutting crap, crisps included is a good starting point, but at 8 st., doing some intensive ab work might help.
Try to avoid all the white stuff, white bread, white pasta, white rice and maybe switch to brown or black . Any packet or jar you pick at the supermarket, read later and anything with more than 5g of sugar/ 100 g , put back on shelf.
Sauces are a typical trap, salad dressing, curry or indian sauces, ketchup, baked beans......
Do a no sugar - no white January and see if it improves.

Ok darling so i had a huge belly after my third birth and two weeks after doing pekvic floor exercises all the fucking time my tummy is back to normal flat. 4 months after birth, although i worked out an hr every day nothing moved until this. Those are probably your organs honey and if you want to lift them get thee to a pussy rehab specialist asap.