3 yrs of diet/excersice & still have gut...

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keith555

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Hi all - I started dieting & exercising in 2004 as a New Year's resolution and I haven't quit. I went from 215 down to 165, which is where I currently am. Generally speaking I'm fit and have a 34" waist. There's one problem: I still have a large gut. It basically hangs over my belt and is disgusting and it looks abnormal now because I'm pretty thin now and I just have a gut sticking out. Is there some kind of medical condition or anything which causes someone to have a gut?

For a period of abour 6 months I was only taking in about 1200 calories a day, plus exercising. I lost more weight but the gut remained. I don't understand how this is possible. The irony is that it looks like a "beer gut", but I DONT drink.

Info: 26 y/o male, 5'10".

Am I missing something? It's a shame that after all this hard work I still can't take my shirt off at the beach without looking like an alcoholic. Is there some kind of medical condition or anything that would cause a skinny person to have a fat stomach??

Thanks!
 
Good job on losing that much weight. I am 18 and about 140 lbs. and i'm 5'7".
Um anyways show us your diet plan, what your eating etc..

heres a few tips if you didn't know any of these.

- Eat 5-6 small meals throughout the day. Each meal should be 2-3 hours apart
- Each meal should contain one protein and one carb
- The first meal should be eaten within an hour after waking up in the morning.
- Drink a cup of water at each meal.
- Get 7-8 hours of sleep each day.
- Rest properly, taking 1-2 days off from exercising per week.

You have to burn more calories than your consuming, losing belly fat and/or abs is a tough thing to go through.
 
well, I was in a very similar situations as far as weight loss goes.

Just I went from 215 to 150 in about 8 months. Most of my weight I lost the wrong way, only eating one meal a day and swimming only once a week for and hour and a half.

After I did some research I switched over to many small meals through the day, and eating most of my calories during the day, just chugging water and having snacks like pickels at night.

I also hit the weights, 3 times a week. Muscles require energy, and in turn boosts your metabolism. The problem is when you loose wieght your loosing fat and muscle at the same time -unless your exercising those muscles and getting around 1g per lb of body weight in protien.

The last thing, I did, after I had still had a gut and then ribs for God's sake, was start with ab exercises. Within 2 two weeks of hard ab workouts (like 3 times a week for a 30 mins), I had small stomach channels and the top of my stomach filled in with muscle and pulled in what used to be my gut. You can check in my latest thread.

To pull in the gut you have to exercise the obliques and the transverse abdominous, through things like side planks and stomach vacumes. To just get muscles in the front and flatten out the stomach a bit, you just exercise the abs doing things like sit ups.


To explain what happened before; if your body goes below a certain level of energy requirements, it will actually store all of the energy it gets from food, so you'd actually be putting on weight despite to huge calorie difference. You need to go no less than 1000 cals less than your requirements, including energy spent in exercise.
 
water retention does the same thing, you need atleast 64 oz. of water a day. if you drink alot of water, then thats superb. but if your not then your liver thinks its in a drought
 
1200 kcals is too low for you. Google "Harris Benedict equation" - work the full equation (including multiplying by your activity level), then subtract 20% or 500 kcal, and that will give you a good idea of what your caloric needs are.
 
You probably have a little of the skinny fat look going on eating that low low amount of calories. In other words, you lost weight, but a good portion of it was muscle. So no matter how far you go down, you won't look right because you are losing a good deal of muscle with the fat...
 
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