Foods that target fat loss in thighs or butt? (Read on...)

Hey!  I'm pretty sure some of you have heard of the Flat Belly Diet (which encourages eating MUFAs at every meal).  This is to target the fat in the abdominal area.  Has anyone tried the Flat Belly Diet and lost weight in their thighs or butt, or was the weight loss mainly in the belly?  Also, is there any food that can be eaten to target fat loss in thighs or butt?  I know that generally you can't target weight loss, but maybe there is some food out there that does for thighs and butt?  Like flat belly diet for stomach area? 
Also, what are some good at home exercises that I can do to help shrink my thighs and butt?  Or at least concentrate on these areas?  I have heard that target weight loss is impossible, but I don't completely buy into that.  For example, if you want to get rid of flabby arms, jump roping helps.  I was wondering if there was anything for butt or thighs (i know i said it a million times, sorry, but really desperate).  I have had my cc account for a long time, but just got back on today because I really would like to lose weight.  Thanks all! 

Flat belly diet = lose weight generally and you'll eventually lose weight on your gut.

There is no food that will target fat loss on your belly, your thighs, your arms, your double chin or your under-eye bags or....wherever

It is unfortunately correct that you can't target weight loss. What you can do is bulk and shape the muscles after the fat has gone. You CAN target that. Your example of "flabby arms" being cured by jump rope is also fantasy unfortunately, if what you mean is "targetted fat loss". What this exercise may do (and I really don't know - does it?) is give definition to the muscles in the area because you are using the muscles or maybe because jumping rope is bl**dy hard work - you lose weight thru more exercise which= less fat on your arms (and everywhere).

As for good thigh and butt exercises - I like stairclimbing, squats, lunges, running.

hi, i have been doing jump rope for over a month. its pretty good. it doesn't spot reduce fat in any part of the body. its pretty good for weight loss and toning?(supposedly) if you do it at a fast pace and are able to endure for longer periods and take rest for shorter periods.

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Edit: NO specific food will create weight loss (ie loss of fat) in ONE area of your body. Echoing all comments above.. any exercise will help you to lose weight if you also ensure that you count your calories and eat less than your body burns in a day.

But you cannot reduce fat or flab in one particular area by exercising that part of the body... it doesn't matter how much you, me or anyone else wishes this to be so, it just isn't. You could do a million crunches a day and it would NOT make your tummy flatter. The exercise would however, help you to burn off calories and therefore lose some of your total weight.

If you are "desperate" take the time to use the tools on here to work out a healthy daily calorie target for yourself (as a guide take the top number on your burn meter and take off 500- 700 calories, (please note: your "deficit" should never be greater than 800 calories, as a higher number will mean your body burns muscle, not fat) a deficit of approximately 500 calories per day will produce a reasonable weight loss of approximately one pound per week. Take a look at the welcome message in the weight loss forum, there are loads of links in that thread which will guide you towards a healthier diet. As a rule of thumb if you ensure most of your food is whole or natural you will be automatically eating more healthily. Eat more veggies, fruit and lean protein and less fast food, fried food or anything laden with sugar or doused in sauces.

The bottom line is that successful weight loss is due to 70 % diet and 30 % exercise. So if you get your eating under control you will be more than half way towards your goal.

Take this advice from someone who has tried almost every other option out there, fast weight loss never lasts and it makes you more unhealthy in the long run.

I'm taking a guess here, if your desperation is because you want to lose a certain amount of weight before the end of this year then do yourself a favor. Don't. Anything more than a 3 - 4 pound loss maximum by New Year's Eve, is not possible or healthy. Weight loss is like a race..but it's a marathon not a sprint. Lose the weight slowly and it will stay off forever, try to do it too quickly and you will be back in a month with the same amount (or even more) to lose.

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Help! 

Is a MUFA anything like a MuffaFu_ _ er?  Or a near relation, a MuthaFu_ _er? I often look at myself in the mirror after downing a few pints of Hoggen-Dazs and yell at myself for being one stupid MuthaFu_ _ er for eating 3 or 4 pints.  So, is the MUFA diet when you yell at yourself about the bad stuff going right to your thighs?

Please answer. I am always ready to try new diets other than Counting Calories.

I dont' know anything about the Lean Belly Diet specifically, but I wanted to comment on the mentioning that it's not possible to "spot-reduce" or "target-reduce" certain areas of the body with exercise, when there is actually published research supporting that the opposite may be true. For a long time it was believed that one could exercise the abs in order to induce lipolysis in the midsection and waistline, hence, improving leanness and definition specifically in that area. Then, somehow, the concept arose that you can't spot-reduce certain areas, that exercise caused total body lipolysis vs. area-specific lipolysis.

In the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology & Metabolism, research conducted by Bente Stallknecht, et al, in which it was found that blood flow and lipolysis (fat-burning) were higher in subcutaneous adipose tissue (body-fat lying between skin and muscle tissue) adjacent to contracting muscle than to resting muscle. An abstract of the article (published in September, 2006) can be found at AJP. 

The results are pretty conclusive that specific exercises can induce "spot lipolysis" in adipose tissue. It only makes sense, too. Most people with enough real-world experience in bodybuilding, or even in physical culture in general, already know this. Focusing on your thighs and butt by doing specific resistance exercises, for a specific duration will most likely cause a reduction in body-fat in that specific area of subcutaneous adipose tissue, as well as increasing lean muscle mass and improving muscle definition, as opposed to overall total body lipolysis, which results from classical aerobic exercise (such as jumping rope).

Just wanted to share that bit of info with you in hopes that it would help. I'm sure there will always be peole who simply choose not to buy into the "spot-reducing" ideas of resistance exercise, but the evidence does support it, both in the lab and in the gym.

Best of Life,

- Ronnie

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Original Post by ajaro:

Except the science and "results" don't back it up. Also, I like how you sought fit to " translate" lipolysis as "fat burning" when in actually lipolysis is not the oxidation of fatty acids for energy. It only releases FFAs into the bloodstream, which are not guaranteed to get burnt, and they can get sucked right back up into cells.

Also, is that a snuck-in-self-plug?

It was. 

 I've actually referenced this paper before when it first came out; and I did something hoosier_daddy apparently failed to do - I ran the numbers on energy expenditure too.

 It takes 5 hours of performing crunches to burn the calories equivalent to 30 minutes of light jogging or the standard body-building cardio workout of incline walking. Wanna bet I can rack up even more calorie burn with some other exercises while he's still down on the floor crunching gamely away?

 Even that's just a distraction from the main point though. Your body generally stores about 1800 kcal worth of fat intra-muscularly which is what's used for fuel as long as you aren't doing exercises at glycogen-burning intensities. This gets replaced from FFAs in the blood stream so it's vaguely possible that the fat liberated from the adjacent fat cells during the 5 hours of crunches will result in burning off some of the excess, but it's a farcical notion that this will have any real-world significance whatsoever. Since liberated but unused FFAs will be re-esterified into stored fat - most likely in the location they were liberated from since the enhanced blood flow to the region also promotes lipogenesis.

 The net effect on body composition will be exactly equal to the calorie deficit created from the exercise regardless of momentary substrate utilization and transient increases in blood flow - so no, you still can't spot reduce.

 You can spot target muscle for development with resistance exercise, but the effect on definition and body composition is completely down to diet and calorie deficits; which is why body builders looking to lean out for a show will spend endless hours doing low-intensity cardio so they can create a calorie deficit without sacrificing muscle mass.