To paraphrase Animal Farm, "some fats are more equal than others".
In addition to diet and exercise for reducing overall fat, eMedExpert Blog has five tips for reducing belly fat in particular. Link -Thanks, Karen!
While putting on weight in general can have negative effects on your health, abdominal weight gain (visceral fat) is particularly unhealthy. Since visceral fat is buried deep in your abdomen, it may seem like a difficult target for spot reduction. But this fat is actually quite sensitive to exercise and calorie reduction.
In addition to diet and exercise for reducing overall fat, eMedExpert Blog has five tips for reducing belly fat in particular. Link -Thanks, Karen!
Fat IS fat and there is no specific diet or exercise that will specifically target one "type" of fat or one "area" (muscles yes, fat NO).
First, it's losing, not loosing. How often do we have to point this out?
Second, the problem with losing weight is not some BS about sagging skin. The problem is being lazy. No, it really is. That sagging skin crap is just an excuse and it doesn't happen to most in any case.
What you CAN do is exercise and tone the muscles underneath, which certainly makes you look better. Yoga, pilates, crunches, leg lifts, etc. Anything that tones and strengthens the core muscles.
I am not saying it's an excuse, I'm saying it's a result. It has happened to my friend and she has some serious self image issues about it. She looses 75 lbs. and is rewarded with this shit? What is she going to do about it huh? How about you tell me some options she has genius. It's so easy to say how lazy people are especialy when you havn't had to deal with that problem eh?
Byrd,
I am not saying it’s an excuse, I’m saying it’s a result. It has happened to my friend and she has some serious self image issues about it. She looses 75 lbs. and is rewarded with this crap? What is she going to do about it huh? How about you tell me some options she has genius. It’s so easy to say how lazy people are especialy when you havn’t had to deal with that problem eh?
But this is just a bad post.
1) The content is a total load of crap (Not food pun intended).
2) What isn't toatally wrong in this, is common sense.
3) How is this even "neat"?
People (Americans) just need to stop eating fastfood, and too much of it, watch less TV, and make some sort of attempt to be productive. Any fashion seems to work... If you using your mind, generally, you're using your stomache less.
And everybody knows that liposuction is the only answer ;)
True. It will also solve our fuel crisis (by utilizing all that bacon fat as diesel)
Be active and you'll be healthy: http://kateharding.net/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/
Do people seriously actually care about their getting "Healthier"? No, then change their habits because the doctor tells them that if they don't chance their habits they are going to DIE and then become concerned about their health. Look the majority of these posts, given the majority of these opinions; does getting healthier actually matter? That's the real BS here. If there was a miracle cure for an instant slim body but gives you 10 years to live, more people than you think would take it, and then regret their decision just before those years are up. Yes, people are that shallow.
If you have sagging skin as a result of weight loss you were more than just overweight when you started. The elasticity of skin is pretty resilient to weight gain and loss. I lost 70 lbs several years ago and did not have any sagging skin.
What BS - site any published study (and leave the Lady's Home Journal and National Enquirer articles on your night stand) that backs up your speculation.
One anecdotal story about someone, even if you know them personally, does not mean that everyone with a wieight problem thinks/feels the same way. Or will even face the same skin sagging issue. That is not normal for that to occur and might have occured because she lost that weight way too fast. When weight is shed at a healthy rate (about 2lbs. a week), the body has time to get rid of the extra skin as well. Rapidly shedding water, which a lot of dieting and weight loss really is, will result in sagging skin.
As the genius that I am, I would suggest that she see a doctor to find up what is F'ed up with her body to respond to weight loss that way.
I've heard that too, repeatedly, but I've no idea what evidence there is for that claim. Sure, the studies might be flawed in some way, or be talking about smaller effects that we'd like. But, as presented anyway, they seem solid enough to warrant consideration.
Several of these points relate to lowering cortisol...
Generally,people have multiple times of the day where they are either burning fat or storing fat, whether dieting or not. If cortisol levels are too high, the fat will be stored in the tummy when fat is being stored. This can result in your tummy being slightly fatter even when in a calorie deficit; that is, until you lose enough fat everywhere so you tummy starts to shrink.
They idea that people store fat and lose fat evenly over there body is false... the truth us more complicated than that.
The idea that one can spot reduce using exercise is also false. However, there are certain things you can do to influence hormones in your favor to have fat storage patterns be more complimentary to your figure....
but if your dieting this last point is moot anyways
did you bother to look at any of the studies cited by the article???
Some people need to lighten up I think.
I'll go with the Mayo Clinic on this one. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/obesity/DS00314/DSECTION=complications
Almost every research, as others have pointed out, will tell you that you can not lose weight in only a specific area, spot reduce whatever you want to call it.
You exercise, eat right, and the fat burns off everywhere. It may seem to reduce quicker in areas you have the most, such as belly, or thighs or wherever, but there's nothing out there to prove that you can lose fat in a specific area by doing something special.
As for the saggy skin, it just depends on the person I think and how much they had to lose and how quickly they lost it.
Some people won't have any saggy skin while others will b/c they've lost that elasticity in their skin. Diabetes caused my brother to lose about 70lbs in a very short amount of time. The only place he has saggy skin is his belly. It was sorta bad at first, but as the years went by, it's slowly tightened back up. It's still a little saggy but not bad.
It seems to me like all of the advice in the article was good, sound, healthy stuff for losing weight, period. But the two kinds of weight thing is a valid fact, sorry. Fat IS fat, but it affects your health in different ways according to where it accumulates. So guess who's been avoiding white sugar, white flour, and has exercised *nearly* every day of the new year?
*just keep swimming, just keep swimming*
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