Help losing belly fat

Time to put your muscles to the test, brah. Let's lift.

In addition to lifting, maybe add some sprints and a little intermittent fasting. Or play some lacrosse.

It's OK to be fat. You are 40. Quit buying into the MTV and Instagram lies.

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Keto. 

Diet is where you lose fat.

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My visceral fat (very dangerous) melted away in no time on lazy keto/low carb. And I still drink beer. I run and swim and am active which contributes to fairly defined and fat-free abs, but it's mostly diet.

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I just read that article. I'm pretty novice on the workout/ diet regimen and that was good information. Might explain why I've had a difficult time losing weight despite riding road bicycle 100 miles a week at times. I've started weight lifting a few times a week. Hopefully a couple more weeks and I'll see results.

Cannot target fat areas. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of it. Consume less calories than you burn and you'll lose fat.

Actually you can but only to a certain extent and it's not worth the time and effort anyways. But you do it with targeted exercise to cause blood flow to an area and then do some form of exercise. So like doing crunches then sprints can cause a small amount of targeted fatloss but only if the fatty deposits are there due to bad blood flow to the area.all while in a deficit. It's why boxers have leaner arms than the rest of their body, sprinters tend to have leaner legs than the rest of the body etc.


Like I said it's complicated and the effects are small and not worth it.

OP these specialized diets everyone is saying to do are the same way. Sure if, keto and other diets due cause a small thermogenic effect but it's so small it's not even worth it. I love both keto and if and it's because I prefer to eat that away and it's what I can stick too but they are not any better for fatloss overall than any other diet that puts you in a deficit.

Find a diet you can stick to while making sure you get enough protein to maintain lean tissue. It's really that simple.

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some other ideas besides "run 2 miles a day and eat almonds"

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mtv lied to you.

quit being lazy and go lift some weights. nothing worth having comes easy

Empirical scientific evidence shows that in healthy individuals, if protein intake and calories are equated, there is virtually no difference in fat loss rates between low carb or high carb diets. If healthy, your extra rate of fat loss could be explained by better adherance


That said, there are various reasons that this could be change in people with hormonal imbalances, pre-diabetes, insulin sensitivity, etc. if the keto diet helps rectify some health issues.

Alcohol is a large boulder blocking the narrow pathway to fat loss.