how do you lose BODYFAT?

[fighter_not_a_lover]

i am fine with my muscle amount and strength.

heres my details, someone who knows what they are talking about please help lol.

height; 6ft

weight; 18 stone

notes; firm arms, firm chest, firm legs.

someone help me lose my body fat, its around my waist under my belly button mainly, i think its something to do with the scar from my belly button around the front of my belly maybe damaging the muscle tissue underneith, its from a operation.

[Fairfax_Uechi]

i am fine with my muscle amount and strength.

heres my details, someone who knows what they are talking about please help lol.

height; 6ft

weight; 18 stone

notes; firm arms, firm chest, firm legs.

someone help me lose my body fat, its around my waist under my belly button mainly, i think its something to do with the scar from my belly button around the front of my belly maybe damaging the muscle tissue underneith, its from a operation.

Losing fat takes time and effort. Basically the equation is to eat less calories than you need (but not too few or your system goes into starvation mode and tries to keep all the fat it can). The key is to eat a good balanced diet, get rid of any junk, and extras, control you portion sizes, and have a good mix of protein, carbs and (good) fats. Couple this with exercise and training and you'll lose fat. If you don't work all areas it's very hard.

Sorry, to be the bearer of bad news but there are no long term short cuts. Fad diets don't work, and no magic pills exist that will help you.

[ShotokanKid]

How much is 18 stone? Can you explain this weight system to me?

[Aodhan]

It's...English? Anyway, it's equivalent to 14 lbs, or a little over 6.5 kilos. So, since he weighs 18 stone, he is 252 US pounds, or 114.55 kilos.

Aodhan

[Aodhan]

i am fine with my muscle amount and strength.

heres my details, someone who knows what they are talking about please help lol.

height; 6ft

weight; 18 stone

notes; firm arms, firm chest, firm legs.

someone help me lose my body fat, its around my waist under my belly button mainly, i think its something to do with the scar from my belly button around the front of my belly maybe damaging the muscle tissue underneith, its from a operation.

Bodyfat won't be affected by scars or muscles underneath. Basically, bodyfat is storage of calories for when the body can't get food on a regular basis.

If you want to lose bodyfat, you need to know how much you are using in dailiy activity, your basal metabolic rate, and how much you eat.

For a week or so, keep track of everything you take in (Even if you stop at the water fountain for a quick sip), and record everything you do for activity.

Take that on the web to a site like fitday, and figure out how much you expended each day in activity, and what your basal rate (The amount of food to sustain your body without activity), and that should give you your daily caloric needs, just to maintain body weight. Compare that to how much you are expending. I'm guessing that most days, you're pretty close to balanced, otherwise you would have already lost the weight.

1000 extra calories is roughly equivalent to a pound of body fat, so if you can cut 1000 calories a week from your diet, you should start losing the body fat. 1-4 pounds a month is a pretty safe rate for PERMANENT weight loss/gain. Often in the beginning of a diet you will gain/lose more than that as your body adjusts.

Look at it this way as well...the average candy bar is around 250-300 calories. Three a week is an extra 900 calories. You do that for an entire year, and you can gain 12-15 pounds just from the candy bars.

I went through this about 6 years ago when I first started programming. I would drink 2-3 20 oz Pepsi's each day, and couldn't figure out how I gained 10 pounds in 5 months.

Aodhan

[jnpnshr411]

"weight; 18 stone " not to offend anyone but I thought this form of measuring was gone. I saw it the other day on the military history channel. It was used to measure the medieval foot soldiers armor.

[Fairfax_Uechi]

1000 extra calories is roughly equivalent to a pound of body fat, so if you can cut 1000 calories a week from your diet, you should start losing the body fat. 1-4 pounds a month is a pretty safe rate for PERMANENT weight loss/gain. Often in the beginning of a diet you will gain/lose more than that as your body adjusts.

Aodhan

Actually a pound of fat is about 2500 calories not 1000. The rest of this quote is DEAD on. Many folks try to lose weight too fast and it only back fires.

One reason it's so hard to lose fat is that it's very easy to eat 1000, 2000 or more calories and not think about it. Just go to a mall and have a Cinnebun (sp?) or similar "treat". Even a large fry is over 800 calories!

[Fairfax_Uechi]

"weight; 18 stone " not to offend anyone but I thought this form of measuring was gone. I saw it the other day on the military history channel. It was used to measure the medieval foot soldiers armor.

I may be mistaken, but I think only the British use it. I have never been able to figure out what they use. Maybe someone can explain which systems they use and when. I think they use metric for most things but there are exceptions. So it would be nice to know.

[Aodhan]

1000 extra calories is roughly equivalent to a pound of body fat, so if you can cut 1000 calories a week from your diet, you should start losing the body fat. 1-4 pounds a month is a pretty safe rate for PERMANENT weight loss/gain. Often in the beginning of a diet you will gain/lose more than that as your body adjusts.

Aodhan

Actually a pound of fat is about 2500 calories not 1000. The rest of this quote is DEAD on. Many folks try to lose weight too fast and it only back fires.

One reason it's so hard to lose fat is that it's very easy to eat 1000, 2000 or more calories and not think about it. Just go to a mall and have a Cinnebun (sp?) or similar "treat". Even a large fry is over 800 calories!

You're absolutely right. Don't know where the 1000 came from....oh, wait. Sorry. 1000 calories is about the max your body can handle in a single meal before excess over that gets converted to fat primarily. It's scalable for individuals, but that's a good generality.

Sheesh. Gotta reread before I hit send

Aodhan

[emma]

Since 15 June 2005 I joined Weight Watchers I already have succesfully lost 1 stone already (14 pounds in total, equivilent of six bags of sugar?) The weight is just coming off week by week, I would like to know where its all going?

In the next coming of the months hopefully before this years christmas, I am hoping to lose two more stone and get down to 10st.

As I am so very passionate about my karate and I really enjoy I feel I would greatly improve by losing some of the fat off me.

I was poorly for 3 months so losing weight was put off for a bit (being out of karate felt like 3 years to me, then 3 months) I missed the training and my freinds that I trained with so much.

Now I feel so much better able to fit into smaller sized clothes, is like a breeze to me.

The is an advert on british TV across a range of tv channels at the moment and its about losing body fat with a breakfast cereal called Special K, it says to eat cereal for all meals and snack in between with special K cereal bars, and the young lady on there who walks around on tv, and keeps being called 'a loser' by a child and and a few adults figures in various places.

I've seen this advert over and over and I definetly think this idea of losing weight or getting fitter with special K and weight watchers would probably clash and as I have been on weight watchers for a while now, I've definetly think I will stick with that.