How to lose belly fat?

Hello! I need help losing belly fat. I am currently 170lbs and 5'6. I have cut out junk food for this past week. I only eat salad, drink water, and have fruits for snacks. I work out 30 minutes everyday. I havent seen even a tiny tiny tiny bit of physical difference anywhere. Please help give me tips and advice!!! I hate being a size XL

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If you want to know how to lose the fat on your stomach, you do have to appreciate that it does have its challenges. But, if you have the right information, a belly fat diet plan does not have to be as hard as it may initially appear. As a starting point, totally avoid processed foods and substitute them with nutrient-dense, natural foods. This first step will certainly help you to lose the fat on your stomach and you will lose weight and feel healthier in a much quicker way than you thought possible.Fresh Fruit and VegetablesMake sure that you include a wide range of fresh fruit and vegetables to what you eat each day as these foods help you get the nutritional supplements you need to support your body system. For example, calcium is good for healthy bones. Vitamin C helps your immune system and vitamin A supports healthier vision and skin.Fruits and vegetables are rich sources of carbohydrates and fibre. Carbs are essential because they provide fuel for your body system. Fibre manages the bowels and expands in your stomach to help you remain fuller for longer. And obviously, the longer than you feel full, the less you will eat and the more likely you are to lose the fat on your stomach.Poultry and BeansBeans and poultry provide your body with protein it needs to stay healthy. Protein is referred to as the foundation of the body system for a reason. It is found almost everywhere in the body system. Without it, you will experience problems like exhaustion, sleeping difficulties, and weakness.As beans and poultry are high in protein they provide very satisfying meals which means that you are less inclined to over eats your appetite is satisfied.Lean MeatsAs part of your belly fat diet plan try to include lean meats. This will provide your body with iron which help to manage fatigue, issues regulating the temperature, headaches and dizziness.Healthy FatsAlthough it might sound odd, you do need to eat healthy fats as part of your belly fat diet plan. Such food items as fish and raw nuts provide good sources of healthy fats. These fats develop the brain, provide the body system with energy and help produce hormones. Fats also enable your body system use vitamins more efficiently.Be Patient If you remove processed junk food from your daily diet and substitute them with the meals listed above, you can lose the fat on you stomach but it will not happen overnight. The secret of how to lose the fat on your stomach is to have a sensible diet plan that you can stick to with foods that you like eating. When you combine this with an exercise program you will lose your belly.

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• I'm done with my weight loss journey and completely happy with how I feel and how I look right now however losing weight is a challenge for anyone and even losing 5 pounds and keeping it off isn't an easy task. Also I bet you didn't know that 5 pounds of fat is about the size of 8 cheese burgers? That alone should be enough to make anyone want to get on the ball and start a change for the better. Weight loss can be really easy to learn but the problem is nobody wants to put the required effort that is needed to actually do it, instead people continually look for (easy) ways to do it. If there was an easy way to lose weight I don't think 35% of Americans would be obese. There was a time when I also wanted to lose weight and was tired of starting diets only to lose motivation and give up just a few weeks later after seeing no results. However, let me tell you it is literally one of the easiest things you will ever learn once you find a good and reputable place to learn it from and I say that only because the world is filled with magic diet pills, liquid flush diets and a thousand other quick fixes that promise xx pounds of weight loss in the first week and even though it is impossible they know you're going to do it because your desperate. I have probably tried every diet pill, liquid flush diet, and ab rocket machine known to man and have had no success with any of them nor do I know anyone that has ever had any success with them. I have also tried starving myself which works very well for the first few weeks' right before your metabolism comes to a complete stop and eating just the tiny bit makes you gain weight and you end up weighing more than you did before you started starving yourself. Companies promote weight loss to make money not to get people healthy again and that's because they know you're not going to be a customer and buy their products if you're no longer fat. http://fatloossfactor.com is a site I want you to go to when you have 10 or 20 minutes to spare and I want you to sit down and watch his video on weight loss. He helps people every day to lose weight I have never seen someone as committed as him and that will go so far out of his way to help someone. His weight loss program is one of the best I have ever had the enjoyment of doing and it is without doubt the best success I have ever had with any weight loss program. I also couldn't be happier with my body right now and I have never felt this wonderful in my whole life. In the end you just got to remember to stick with it and stay confident in yourself and in no time you can achieve the results you have always wanted. It's not hard to lose weight but most people have a hard time staying motivated and 9 times out of 10 it was because they weren't really committed from the beginning. Anyways I hope I helped you and I hope you make the commitment to change your body and life. Remember it's not easy to take the first step but you did, you're here right now taking it and the rest of the steps will fall into place. Have a wonderful day.

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I NEED HELP WITH MY 6 PACK?

f i run a mile or for 3 days a week and work on my abs for 3 days a week and change my workout every week and do this for 6 weeks and eat healthy and drink alot of water and sleep will i get a 6 pack in 6 weeks by running 3 days a week a mile or more and doing ab workouts and changing it up and making it harder ever week will i get a 6 pack in 6 weeks?? im 17 and i can see my 6 pack when i lay down but when i stand up my belly kind of sticks out. im skinny but my belly sticks out a little. when i run my fingers down my stomach i can see my 6 pack. i just have stomach fat..... so to lower my body fat in my stomach.... can running for 6 weeks 3 days a week help??? with alot of water and ab workouts for 3 days a week help??? could i have my solid 6pack in 6 weeks whenever i take my shirt off??? PLEASE HELP.

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Actaully if you were fat before and lost the weight its probably extra skin if not just run 4-5 times a week about 2 miles eat healthy stay away from sugar and also you have your six pack just need to lose your fat and need to get it toned so just do about 50 crunches 30 second planks 20 pushups and just do it abbout 6 times a week for about 1-2 month and in the morning and night trust me

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• Wow....... Dude chill. In the first 1/4 of ur question there were no full stops at all. C'mon im in yr 7 and that's worse than the twats in my class.

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Does two or three day training splits actually work for muscle gain?

I mean if I do chest back shoulders on Saturday and on Sunday I do arms and legs I've read that body builders do one body part a day anyway so would that be good for the whole week and I do abs every other day?

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That pattern is used to let the muscles rest sufficiently after working out in a certain way that would require them to take a week or more to full heal. Most people don't do enough to take a week to heal and training a muscle once a week is just going to make it not grow. It needs to heal to grow. That's exactly what you are seeing, it grows because it healed. A bodybiulder will work it very hard and make it break down very much, so it takes a week to grow back. You can't just hang around and wait so you get a cycle going. While your chest is healing, you can work the back. While both of those are off limits, you can work your legs and after 3 days, you're chest is healed and you can have it again. There's a lot of conflicting thoughts on what pattern to use. Some guysDo all pulling and all pushing Some do growing, explosive, and toning in intervals. Some do chest and back. Some will separate chest and shoulders then arms and abs. You can mix it up any way you want, really. But the one thing sure to leave you with none of the results and all of the suffering is doing the same exact thing every day. Look on here how many people say "I've been doing 40 mins on the treadmill for 3 months and I haven't lost any more weight after the first month." The body is adaptable, that's the fact we are "abusing" in a way when we try to build muscle for vanity. If the first few cavemen got out of breath every single time they chased an antelope and lost 10 pounds a day doing so, they would never survive and they didn't! Working out tells your body that it needs to change to do something. It's only stipulation is that it will balance that request with the limits of efficiency. You can run longer and lift more everytime because your body is a lazy-butt. If it knows it has to run and lift weights, it will do it with as little effort and change as possible. You can do it any way you like but your responsibility as someone looking to change their body is to keep it guessing. It never gets worn out and it never stops growing. Training splits are the only way to get all of the gains and only a little of the pain.

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• Yes, it helps. It allows the small tears in the muscles to repair. This is for muscle mass gain. If you work a muscle every day the muscle will be tighter and leaner but not as large.

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How to lose 50 pounds by April?

I think I''m on the right track so far: 200 cals or less a day combined with 4 herbal diet pills, interval training (starting today), water, water, water, sip of black coffee when I want the taste of something (probably stopping that soon), mutiple cigarettes to curb hunger and distract me, researching thinspiration and positive quotes to keep me motivated, staying upbeat and happy, enjoying the empty feeling in my stomach knowing I''m doing something right, and getting at least 8 hours of sleep a night. What else can I do? Will I lose 50 pounds by April if I continue this? I prefer sooner but my mom''s birthday is in April and I want her gift to be a FINALLY not-so-fat daughter. But most importantly, I''m doing this for MYSELF. To feel beautiful like I did at 100 HEALTHY pounds. Thank you and please no negative or hateful comments/answers.

Is There an Easy Way to Lose Weight?

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okay, to get into shape , speed up your metabolism, rid yourself of excess fat and lose weight ,,,,,do as follows:

Stop drinking & smoking (if you do this regularly)
eat fruits & vegetables all you can (buy a slow cooker /food steamer & rice/pasta cooker to make it easy on you)...(vegetables might not seem "tasty", like junk foods,, but can be as you aquire your taste to them..and are loaded with energy and nutrients)...avoid all junk food, cokes, sweets, etc...and drink mainly water (green tea , juice & milk being the other options you drink). If you eat meat ,,use only steamed, baking or grilled methods for preparing fish or chicken.

also, do an hour of walking each day at least. or some type of excercise.

* you should lose about 10 lbs per month

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how come my calves won''t get smaller?

how come my calves wont get smaller???
so ive been losing weigbt lately, and one of my main targets are my thighs and calves, my thighs have slimmed down and some other parts of my body, but my calves!? they havent slimmed down, not even a little bit???? im so aggravated because im sick of not being able to wear some boots due to my large calves...it makes me really upset, because i want to shrink down my calves. please help me..

and if your going to answer "its genetics" dont even bother to answer cause both my parents have small calves and so does my sister, so seriously dont.

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You have to maybe wait until you''ve lost more of your weight to see the difference on your calves and thighs. Maybe you store more fat there than other parts of your body.

Also you could be doing exercises that bulk up your calves which you should then avoid.

Keep your diet on track so that you get to you goal weight and start doing workouts that create long, lean, toned bodies and not bulky or masculine muscular ones.

Try ballet/barre inspired, yoga, pilates or fusions of them. Those create great bodies especially for legs! Look into:

Lotte Berk or Bar Method
Pure Barre
Ballet Body Signature Series from leah sarago
Rockin Models
Pop Physique
Physique 57
Cardio Barre
Ballet Beautiful
Tracy Anderson Method
Ballerobica
Barre3
Booty Barre
Exhale Core Fusion
Winsor Pilates
AeroBarre
anything from Ellen Barrett or Kristen Mcgee
Xtend Barre

These are all great. Also try Tonique workouts.

• Your probably gaining muscle.
• What exercises do you perform? Try swimming an cycling as they target the leg area. And don''t get upset but it may actually be your genes, you may be bigger bones and your muscle mass may be different compared to your family. Also try hiking and walking more frequently
• Omgosh I have the same problem too, but apparently mine is genetics. I seriously want to wear boots.
  One of the trainers I talk to said that there is fat around the calves area and we need to work it out by doing calf raises, but i feel like that is going to make mine bigger. You should try it out.
  Also, if you have been running and doing any sports at a young age that is also a reason why you have big calves.
  Eventually, if you keep on working out, your calf will decrease.
  
  How did you lose weight around your thighs ?? I have been doing squats and lunges with weights and elliptical for 40 mins for 2 weeks now. No improvement at all. :( But I lost 20pounds prior to that..
• My calves took a while to slim down when I lost weight. I wanted a pair of knee high boots and I bought a pair I could just squeeze into without any socks or pants and over the course of two months of running I slimmed down enough to get into them comfortably.
  
  Try doing some different exercises to tighten up all of the muscles down there and continue to reduce your body fat percentage with diet and hopefully your legs will slim down.
• Ok if you dont wanna listen to people telling you the truth, then ask a nutritionist or another expert, why are you instructing people to be stupid for you? Your calves are a muscle, nearly pure muscle, how do you lose muscle? you stop training that area, but there isnt anybody thats not training their calves, when you walk you use them all the time, you know? Any fat that you take in doesnt go to your calves, it goes largely into your belly, hips, and thighs, the only way calves would have fat in them is in a severely obese person and even thats rare. Keep working on your legs and thighs, maybe when that starts getting slimmer your calves will naturally ''appear'' smaller. And we are also not exact copies of our parents, we also carry our own set of unique variations and mutations that our parents did not have. I have real big calves, the kind you see in sprinters, my dad has baby calves, my mom has an athletic body type so her calves are as average for a fit woman as it gets, so how do I have the calves of a sprinter then?
• I know how you feel! i have massive calf muscles but no one else does in my family! Im a dancer so this probably builds up my muscles a lot. I actually asked the doctor about it and he just said its the way im built and theres not much i can do about it. :( The only way to get rid of muscle like that is to not eat much and sit around without moving for a long amount of time so you lose muscle. But then you wont be able to run and jump etc since all your muscle is gone. I have recently lost 4kg and am at my healthy weight, and my calf muscles stayed the same, i suppose its somthing we will have to learn to love :)

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