What is an easy way for me to lose belly and chest fat?
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YOUR MY TWIN! im 5 10 and i drink a ton of water, we also eat very similar. The only difference is im 17 and I USED to be 180! now im 159. I do 2 hours of eliptical a day (2 one hour sessions) and i eat about 4-5 meals. Make sure u keep eating breakfast, but maybe some cereal? your lunch looks good, but make sure around 3ish maybe 4 u eat a snack, cereal, apple, banana, anything besides the candy or chips. you have to stay away from those. its tough i know, so i usually cheat on sudays, like just have a candy bar, or sum ice cream. Remember to keep your portions small, and dont eat 3 hours before bed, so that your body goes to sleep in fat burning mode. I also do weight training 3 times a week, tuesday thursday and sunday, This will make u you look a ton better when all the weight is finally off, and it burns calories. i also do ab exercises every other day, crunches, superman stretches, leg lifts, and other ab exercises. you dont have to do like 200 just stay in good form and ad a 5-10 pound dumbell. In 3 months you will be 150 pounds, 6 pack abs, and muscular, but not overly muscular. the ladies will flock to you.  good luck
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I am a male, but this method helped ALOT for me.\nI was skinny, with a "fat stomach" until high school soccer started.  Running 1 mile-1 mile and a half each day with a following 2 hour practice helped.\n\nSo I am saying you don't have to do what I did...but just, make a healthy diet, and start running! Running is actually very relaxing (for me), and it will help ALOT in losing that stomach fat.\n\nBecause of soccer last fall, I lost my stomach fat, and I have been going on about two 5 mile runs each week since then, keeping it off. \n\nTrust me, it helps.
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Lose fat through exercise (the whole body) and diet.
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The suggestions from leviballen will probably work if you need to lose FAT from your belly area.   Probably more sensible is a simple, no pils, healthy eating and exercise program.  The only way to lose FAT from your belly area is to lose body fat overalll.  AS much as we woud like it to be differnt there is no easy fix to losing belly FAT and there is no such thing as spot reduction.  It doesn't work.\n\nHOwever, you didn't say you had FAT to lose in your belly area.  You indicate that your problem is loose skin, which is a whole different problem from belly fat.  If your problem is loose skin I am sorry to say the only solution is surgery.  There is no other way to get rid of loose belly skin.  The skin has stretched and lost its elasticity and it will not shrink back, no matter how much exercise or dieting you do, no matter how many Total Lean packs you buy.  \n\nAlso, you didn't indicate you had stretch marks, though suggestions have been made for those.  There are many products on the market that claim to get rid of stretch marks.  Stretch marks are permanent because they are caused by the thinning and breaking down of the layer of skin that has the collagen and elastin -the stuff that makes our skin elastic.  NOthing can fix this, no creams or pills.  However, the marks fade and get smaller and less obvvious all on their own over time, though the skin can never completely return to normal.  In the early stages some stretch marks do seem to be able to be treated by lasers which help get rid of the red color and may help with making things look better.  A cream called tretinoin has  been reported to be successful in some studies, but not in others, and reputable doctors all over the world indicate that there is no way to get rid of stretch marks.  YOu will find lots of sites that want to sell you stuff, but BEWARE.\n\nMy advice would be to be careful and don't spend your money on stuff that doesn't work.  Actually the greatest factor in determining whether you have stretch marks is your genes.  Some people get them, some don't.  If you do have stretch marks think of them as signs that your body has produced something wonderful, two new lives.\n\nGood luck and take care.
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Cardio exercise and diet will help you lose fat all over your body, unfortunately you cannot target fat loss. It is a myth that sit ups and crunches will target belly fat, these execrises will strengthen your abs and give you better definition (i.e. 6 pack) but only if you lose the fat first.\n\ngood luck
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If you have much fat around the waist/belly then I advise you to lose that first-cardio,sprints,diet properly,etc.\nAt the same time do crunches,leg lifts,sit-ups,etc.\nYou can do all those workouts but if the fat is still there you won't get the style you desire...\nGo to bookstore and take a look at books for abs.There are plenty.Look at pictures,decide which explains the best with the exercises that suit you best...\nDedication may get you the abs you want by summer.
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Do massive sid-ups and crunches, starting with 20 and doing 5 more each day. And drink a lot of milk, it helps to lose weight.
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Cardio is the best thing to lose fat . . . try cutting out calories from your diet too, basic stuff is the best. If you want some guidance, go to www.sparkpeople.com, it's like ediets.com except free. I lost some weight by becoming a vegetarian (like 15 lbs.)\n\nGood luck!!!
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Do a tun of crunches. If you have like 30% plus body fat The fastest way to lose weight is to elevate your heart rate as many times and and as high as you can safely elevate it. Eat small portions of meals many times a day instead of really big portions only a few times a day. Jump rope rules. Anything running or sprinting will burn a super amount of calories, incomparable to weight lost just dieting.\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/lose_weight.php
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Do: \n30 situps(put feet under couch)\n30 side situps(30 left, 30, right)(lay on side with legs pulled close to your chest, place one hand on stomach and one under head)\n50 butterfly kicks (1, 2, 3, 1.  1, 2, 3, 2. etc.)\n30 crunches\n30 atomics (like a situp, but you lay flat on ground, feet a few inches off the floor, pull legs and chest up together at same time)\n30 backwards situps  (Like a situp, but legs are crossed indian style and in the air, while you lay on your back, bring legs to chest)\nRepeat atleast two times a day!!!  \n\nYou have to lose FAT though, if you want to be able to see your six pack.  Try running atleast 30 minutes a day.  Also try eating more fruits, vegetables, and protein, and less carbs, sugars, and fats.  Try eating a few meals about 6 times a day.  It will be more like frequent snacks.  An apple and an ounce of cheese or 3/4 c. soup...
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You need to get rid of that fat as well as strengthen your muscles. Cardio is the only way to lose the fat, and one of the best ways to do that is run, but anything less than 30 min won't help much. to get toned muscles the best thing I have found from experience is to do 8 min abs. its quick and pretty easy and you don't need any equipment - but the better you do the exercises the stronger you will get.
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First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.\n\n\nOn Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.\n\nDon't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. \n\nThere is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. \n\nThe most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nTo lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.\n\nFor diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. \n\nFat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.\n\nThere is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs
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First u need to eat healthy!\nGood exercises are Crunches, De-cline situps, and cardio exercises
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Losing weight anywhere is a lifestyle.Keep a journal of your food intake.Set a goal and have a plan about how you will achieve it. Make sure it includes lots of veggies and fruits,preferably  real juice. Eat a hearty breakfast,one with a lot of fibre. Exercise either with the help of a physical trainer or on your own.Sit ups,push up,walking etc. will start you if you do not have an exercise machine/gym at home.Since August 2005 I have lost at least 2-4 inches  in my stomach area etc. and I will lose more. I have to walk to the bus stop as the vehicles are not working. My brother,who spends time in the garden, puts on weight but loses it like butter in a skillet.He keeps moving and gets off his butt for most of the day. Sedentary workers need to keep this in mind.Choose to be healthy and work at it daily.
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There is no such thing as "spot reduction" (ie: losing belly fat). There is no machine, exercise, diet, or magic pill that will remove the fat from just your belly area. Fat will come off from your entire body. Your midsection will be the last place you notice it coming off, but it is. You just don't see it right away because it is larger than other areas of your body.\n\nTo lose the fat from your whole body, you need to eat less, eat healthy, and exercise more. Cut back on the calories, and make most of those calories come from proteins and good carbs. Cut back on the refined sugars and fatty foods, especially trans-fat. For exercise, you don't need a magic machine. Get out and go for a walk. There are a lot of different videos you can buy and exercise in front of your TV. You can buy a set of dumbbells and a bench and do some strength training at home. Or get a gym membership and exercise there.
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there is no easy way...unfortunately. If there was everyone would have a nice stomach.   You have to diet and exercise. Depending on how much weight you have to lose, diet at first will work great. for the last 10 pounds you have to lose, exercise is critical, as your stomach will stay flabby no matter how much weight you lose if you don't add exercise.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UNDERSTANDING THAT SIT-UPS DON'T MAKE YOUR BELLY FAT GO AWAY!!! Seriously, you just made my freakin' day, no joke. \n\nYou need a 2-front war, 1 front being exercise & the other front being diet.\n\nExercise: plenty of cardio, incorporating intervals into your cardio training. also do some strength training, as lean muscle mass supports an elevated metabolism. try doing cardio 1st thing in the morning on an empty stomach to capitalize on depleted glycogen levels so that you will burn bodyfat more efficiently. \n\nDiet: drink water like it's going out of style (at least a gallon/day). consume approx 1g of protein for every pound of bodyweight, all from healthy sources such as chicken, fish, eggs (be careful if you have high cholesterol, go for more egg whites & leave out the yolks), lowfat dairy (milk, yogurt, etc), and meat substitutes such as tofu, tempeh, seitan, and other soy-based products (hey, I'm a vegetarian so I get to do some sneaky advertising here HAHA). spread your food for the day evenly across 5-6 smaller meals; make sure you get a good dose of rapid-digesting protein (such as whey) within 20 minutes of a workout. eat plenty of fiber. focus on whole food sources for your micro & macro nutrients. I am NOT a low-carb kinda gal & you will never ever hear me endorse any crap like Atkins, but it is helpful if you taper your carbs off gradually thruout the day. green tea is also helpful, a natural thermogenic. \n\nhope this helps some; good luck! if I can help you any more feel free to send me a message.