muffin top and the special k diet

[_sophie_]

How do you get rid of your muffin top?!
I looked up the weight for my height and i am about right.. just in the category overweight but i don't mind losing a bit more weight. i eat realtively healthy and gym at least 3 times a week (probably about 5 or 6 days a week on holidays usually) but i just can't shift this band of fat around my tummy! i'm happy with my legs they are pretty long so that's good it's just my tummy.. i don't get it if i am pretty much the right weight? how do i get rid of it it's annoying me soooooo much lately! at the moment i'm about a size 12 though it varies, i would ideally like to be a size 10 (maybe size 8 but it might be too skinny!)
anyone tried the special k diet? does it work? sounds what i need - drop a dress size in 2 weeks or whatever it is!

[LoftyLottie]

Serious question. Why does cutting out carbs get rid of a muffin top. If you don't want to slim but just want to get rid of a spare tyre around the waist would cutting out carbs help and how does that work?

[B00]

I aleays assumed, now im no expert, as im allergic to both diets and exercise, that it was only exercise (awful word!) that got rid of flabby bits and toned em up? Sure diet if you want to lose weight, but for those tyres....

[jd_1984]

Pinki - sorry to contradict, but "natural" carbs and sugars are found in fruit and veg. Its is processed carbs you should avoid on a diet. A staple diet consists of fruit and veg otherwise your energy levels are depleted and after 4 weeks excercise would become hard and you may be unable to excercise to the level. I dont claim to an expert, especially on diets for women, I have worked with male athletes and bodybuilders in the past and my knowledge comes largely from that. And I dont want to confuse Sophie, if you say cutting the carbs totally works, I will leave it at that!

[rowanwitch]

a lower carb diet increases the ratio of fat to lean tissue loss, as a muffin top is mostly fat, it along with other fatter bits should shrink other low calorie, low fat diets tend to involve a slightly higher lean tissue loss unless you continually rebuild it with exercise some people find the shorter term more targeted approach more effective...

[mccfluff]

i heard double choc fudge?

you go to the gym, why not ask one of the trainers to do you a programme to work on those areas

[LoftyLottie]

I don't want my other fatty bits to shrink!! I would like some more weight on my bum and hips and less round my waist.!! A hoola hoop would probably help!! ha, ha!!
I have a really large rib cage that tilts forward so that doesn't help. I gives me a midriff bulge even before any fat goes on it!!

[mccfluff]

i think we're too late pinki, if Boo got here first, no chance :-(

[jd_1984]

Pinki - yeah, as a quick fix it can work to cut out carbs. A friend once tried it and he struggled to train at the gym after a fortnight, my point was if combining diet and excercise?
By the way - still no avatar?

[AB Editor]

I would suggest being sensible with carbs rather than cutting them out completely. You need to increase your muscle mass a bit. Obviously don't eat too much fat, get your sugars from fruit not dessert etc.

Anyone who tells you to do sit-ups to get rid of belly fat is wrong - you can't "spot burn" or similar.

[AB Editor]

I agree, they *do*

But you can't decide to burn off a belly as much as you can decide where the fat goes in the first place!

[ummmm]

It doesn't matter how good your stomach muscles are....if they are covered in a layer of fat you're not going to see them...

[jd_1984]

Google - "How to loose muffin top". Loads of good tips and expert opinions on the web (not that we dont have good tips or expert opinions on here - ofcourse!)

[arwyn]

If you stop all sugar for a few weeks you will see you'r waist shrink. I have just done it as the only place I had any fat was on my belly and I had muffin tops. I lost 6lb and it all came off my middle.
Sugar is in food than you would'nt think, I got a shock, it's in milk-bread-low fat marg etc..... I googled "how to loose belly fat" and watched a video about all the foods that has sugar in and how eatting sugar makes the fat stay on you'r belly...