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Posted on 3/9/23 at 9:16 pm to Mizooag94
Canuck nailed it. You prolly need 155 for visible abs and no love handles at all.
Posted on 3/10/23 at 10:27 am to Canuck Tiger
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People tend to underestimate how much weight they need to lose to be lean. At 5’8” and a normal amount of muscle for a dude, you probably need to be 150-160 to get rid of love handles completely and have a six pack. You can make your abs look visible at a higher bf% by exercises (hanging leg lifts for lower abs and cable crunches for upper abs are my recommendation) but I the recipe is eat less (but get lots of protein), move more, and lift heavy weights to preserve your muscle as you lose weight.
Lots of truth here. October of 2021, I was probably close to 200 lbs, and I'm on the shorter side at 5'7". Wife started a diet, and I followed her shortly after. I was at 191 when I weighed myself, and got down below 160, a weight I had not been at since college. Still a little bit of extra fat around my midsection. Started exercising and increasing that over time, and I've gained back to around 165-170. I try to aim for 165 but I'm not sweating 5 lbs since I know I am in much better shape now. I can see my top abs slightly, but lower and sides, at 41 years old, is going to take a ton of dedication in the kitchen. I'd rather focus on staying fit, gaining a few lbs of muscle, and let the rest fall where it falls.
Posted on 3/12/23 at 4:43 am to Grad92
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Do have to keep up the intense workouts? or would it be good to just focus on diet for a month first?
Yeah dude. You need to start to love lifting, you’ll be fat all your life otherwise
Also, your first mistake was listening to your folks. Average Louisiana parents don’t know anything about fitness
This post was edited on 3/12/23 at 4:45 am
Posted on 3/13/23 at 6:56 pm to Grad92
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My folks thought I was at a good weight
Your bmi at that weight says you are overweight.
What happens here is people are going to weigh more than you and feel bad, but they will try and make you feel bad about losing weight. It’s fricked up, just ignore them.
This post was edited on 3/13/23 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 3/18/23 at 12:19 pm to Grad92
Try fasting.
Posted on 3/18/23 at 4:05 pm to Grad92
You're gonna have to for sure cut a large amount of weight unless you are absolutely jacked. I'm 5'9" and some change (can't quite claim 5'10" barefooted) and am at 157 right now that keeps around 13-14% BF. You're probably gonna have to get somewhere close to that if you want to eliminate love handles.
My advice is keep lifting heavy on some type of plan and some cardio (walking will do the trick if you do enough) and really shore up the diet. Weigh your portions, count every calorie and be particularly honest with yourself. Without going on too much of a deep dive, I would try to get in around a 500 cal/day deficit and increase your protein to somewhere around 1 gram per pound of body weight per day (at worst use your goal weight for this number). I would suggest marginalizing carbs and come as close to cutting out junk carbs and processed foods as you can. Do plenty of ab work as part of your gym routine, matters that you are doing the work more that what the specific ab exercise is.
TLDR: Account for your calories, get in a significant daily deficit, lift heavy, do some walking.
My advice is keep lifting heavy on some type of plan and some cardio (walking will do the trick if you do enough) and really shore up the diet. Weigh your portions, count every calorie and be particularly honest with yourself. Without going on too much of a deep dive, I would try to get in around a 500 cal/day deficit and increase your protein to somewhere around 1 gram per pound of body weight per day (at worst use your goal weight for this number). I would suggest marginalizing carbs and come as close to cutting out junk carbs and processed foods as you can. Do plenty of ab work as part of your gym routine, matters that you are doing the work more that what the specific ab exercise is.
TLDR: Account for your calories, get in a significant daily deficit, lift heavy, do some walking.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 4:04 pm to BigPapiDoesItAgain
Yeah ive lost 16lbs since xmas and it says my body fat is 11.8% and I still have some fat around the love handles. But not much anywhere else. not on the chest or face, def not in the legs. Its just something im going to keep chipping away at for the summer.
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