I am going to the caribbean and I want to get my belly pierced but I have way  to much flab on my belly. I have been on a diet and I go to the gym 3-4 times a week. What else can Ido?
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First off, go outside. Go for walks. If you don't like running, go for bike ridees they work wonders. Do ab work outs. Crunches...sit ups..cruches but bringing right elbow to left knee. You will want to do high reps with little weight, unless you are planning on building musscle mass.
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Look don't fret about the stretch marks just look ahead and we can work on getting you back to the shape you are after. Just follow this routine and you will be fine. Take it from someone who has two babies and stretchmarks I am still very confident with my physical appearance since I got my shape back. \n\nIf you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. \n\nHere are the golden rules: \nInitially cut down to 1500 calories. \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved. \nDon't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise. \nDrink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day. \nLimit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day. \nNever eat dinner after 6pm.\nAdopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!\nMake low fat dairy choices \n\nFollow this menu plan as a suggestion: \nBreakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon\n20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR\nfruit salad w low GI soy yogurt\nSnack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)\nLunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)\nSnack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt\nDinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato\nSnack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)\n\nExercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between. \n\nCardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes. \n\nTo maintain you can increase calories to 1800 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1500 cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.
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It's not as weird as you think.  \n\nWhen you lose fat, you cannot chose where it falls from - in this case your stomach.  The body part where you have the most fat will be the last place you lose fat from and will take the longest.  \n\nI recently lost about 10kg and I lost weight from places I didn't think were fat, like my wrists and fingers - my watch and rings are now too big for me!\n\nDon't just have bursts of activity to try and decrease your stomach size as this will take forever.  Go for a 30min power walk 4 or 5 days a week and strength train with weights and your own body weight (squats, lunges).  The more muscle you have the more calories you will burn.  \n\nAvoid salty food as this will make you look bloated.  \n\nCrunches will not make your stomach smaller.  They will work the muscles under the fat, but if you don't get rid of the fat, you stomach may end up looking bigger (because of the muscles underneath) rather than smaller.  \n\nStick with doing cardio at least 4 times a week and strength at least 3 times a week.  Do your crunches for 5-10mins three times a week.\n\nTh most important thing is to not give up.  Yes, it will take a while to see results, but you will see results if you keep at it.\n\nAll the best...
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My wife breast fed so the extra weight just slipped off. At the end she too had around 10 pounds or so and just had to hit the gym. She focused on abdominal exercises as tolerable to strengthen that area back up (don't go overboard though, it takes a couple of years for them to heal naturally and you don't want to tear anything worse than it already is), and mostly did cardio for overall fitness and calorie burning.
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Hi! I am a certified personal trainer, level 2 (strength & sport specialist) so I'm not able to be more descriptive about nutrition, but diet really is your #1 concern. If you already are active in strength training (weights, resistance bands, calisthenics, yoga & pilates) AND cardiovascular exercise (running, as noted below, swimming, biking, rollerblading or anything that makes you sweat for 30 minutes)then diet is the final piece of the puzzle. NOTE I used weight lifting and running to lose about 75 pounds!!! I now am 10% body fat and look pretty darn good. If you're NOT involved in BOTH of those types of training, then GET STARTED. \n\nA healthy diet, with proper # of calories is the answer to belly fat. Check out the abs diet (several books) or the ebook burn the fat feed the muscle. Both are great guides to eating right. Make no mistake about it, to get your abs to show (i.e. the six pack) you MUST strength train, do cardio AND eat right. There is no magic solution.\n\nHope that helps.
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It's actually a common problem for anyone who has had a dramatic weight loss. The part your doc went wrong was not making you aware of this in the beginning. My sister went in for gastric bypass surgery, and the first thing they told her about was the excess skin. She's currently saving up for cosmetic surgery. I had the same problem after I had my second son. My chest was 32c before I had my son, and by the time that he was born they were a 42DD. After I stopped producing milk, they shrunk back to their old size only they hung like two water balloons in tube socks lol. I did have surgery done to bring them back up. It took me a year to save up the money for the surgery. But I couldn't be happier. So try throwing all your extra change in a coffee can, cut out the unnecessary things in your life (like I cut out my Starbucks coffee and cigarettes) and put that money in the can. Before you know it you'll have the money to get it done.
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First off how old are you?  If you're under 15 I'd say wait on navel piercings--- not a responsibility thing, more a your body won't do well with it and you're still growing up and maybe out who knows.. but if you want to do it anyway... get it done by someone who knows what they are doing....BUT if you can't do that then somehow find a hollow pt. 14 gauge needle to pierce it with and make sure everything is sterile *trust me get someone who knows how to do it do it*  I did my own when I was 14 with a leather needle and hoop earing *ok we're talking like 1989 here* but it got infected *ewe* then did it with hollow pt. needle *did ok but hurt like a SOB and got kinda infected* then waited a bit and got a ligit piercer to do it.. no problems since...
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I can relate to how you feel.  At times I get that feeling that my metabolism isn't working and I feel my belly area is experiencing some kind of miscontrol and then I start seeing this belly fat.  Sometimes there is no easy answer, but try to have good eating habits such as eating fruits, vegatable, raw nuts & olive oils, clean proteins (broiled, grilled chicken/fish and eat less red meats, and a lot less junk foods (processed, frozen, etc...read labels).  Drink water most of the time instead of fruit juices, soda (even diet) or alcohol which all contribute to weight gain because of the sugar contents or the so called empty calories from diet drinks.  Try "The Zone" diet (goto zoneperfect.com), you eat normal foods but it's all about portion sizes and sugar level balancing which help you lose weight, burn fat and decrease that feeling in the belly.  Make sure you are getting enough fiber and take a daily multi-vitamin.  Hope this helps.
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well i don't know about weight, but if your talking flab i know how to get it off PDQ. you say your not grossly over weight and since your going to a modeling competion or whaterver yoiu must be in resonable shape\n\nso #1 start walking an hour in the moring and an houre at dusk (probably avoid waling when its dark)\n#2 find a good tall long hill (about 20-50yards) and run up it as best you can twice a week\n\nin 2 months you'll easilly lose flab doing that and fast and probably lose about 15 lbs since in 2 month you could potentially gain 5 pounds in water and muscle because your body has become more healthy\n\nremember there is a huge differnce between flab and muscle and just losing weight should NEVER be a goal, you have to eat healthy and drink lots of water and do the exercises i stated previously. and if you've lost all your flab and have good muscle tone but still arn't at the weight you want, sorry your not meant to weight that little\n\nps, visualize how you want yourself to look as you walk and run this will dramaticaly increase results (it helps if you build a striong desire as well for that image you make of yourself)
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well first cut out carbs,it seems to bloat the belly and stores fat there.also drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.do not do sit ups right away because it will only build muscle under the fat and will make your stomach look bigger.try walking at least 30 minutes a day and work aerobics in your schedule about 3 times a week.
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Stop running!  And do a lot of stretches... the more you stretch the longer your leg mucles will get... \n\nAs for the flabby stomach, do some stomach crunches or sit ups, they will burn the fat that is around them.  Also, if you want, do some excercise where you take your arms, and hold them up to your shoulders, now, rotate your body, all the way to the left, then all the way to the right, do this for 15 minutes a day, for 4 weeks and you will have those "tight" abs... Its great for burning the small fat off of  your belly.\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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1. Start eating healthier.  The reason you gain it back is that once you lose it you return to poor eating habits.  A low fat diet is probably your best bet.  Focus on protien - beans and chicken.  Small portions will help shrink your stomach so you aren't hungry all the time.  When you eat try to limit it to portions less than 2 cups in volume and only eat 4-5 times per day.  Drink low fat milk, avoid butter and try to get rid of salt.  Soda also expands your stomach so if you like low cal lemonade or gatorade you're in luck.  \n2. Exercise - Crunches.  to have a visible six-pack (i know that wasn't your question, but in case you're wondering) it takes an incredible amound of discipine.  Hundreds of crunches a day and 40 or more minutes of cardio exersise.  If you just want to lose some weight and tone up a bit I'd suggest a couple of sets of 50 crunches a day (spend a few bucks on a exersise ball to reduce impact on your back)  plus 20 - 30 min. of cardio... running or biking.   Good luck.
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Isolation of tummy exercises won't resolve the issue. Most people carry weight around some part of their body. This happens to be your area. You are lucky cause you can hide it! I would suggest to reduce your fat and sugar intake cause that would assist with the diet. \n\nGo running twice a week for two hours. Do spin and boxing classes and refer to the website for some weight training and ab exercises: www.bodybuilding.com\n\nMake sure you eat all low fat low calorie dairy as well! Be persistent cause if you do you'll see the results. \n\nGoodluck!
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consider getting your belly button pierced. it looks awesome. or you could get the bar through your ear they both are awesome. good luck.
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Shoot for 50-100 crunches until you feel the burn...that's when the muscle is toning.\n\nYou've got to burn the flab off by exercising and dieting.
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that sure is the most difficult area to lose fat from, for girlz at least. i would suggest doing a certain number of abs exercises before going to bed every night. leg lifts help tone the lower abs, which is probably where the flub is. do as many as you can, for a s long as you can. if u dont see immediate results, dont get discouraged. keep going and it will be well worth the effort-you'll see. also staying hydrated (6-8 glasses of water a day) helps to burn fat. its scientifically proven.
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DONT GET YOUR NAVEL PEIRCED LOSE WEIGHT FIRST