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Stomach Fat..

hey everyone, I'm on a 600-800 calories diet, yes I know it's low but I need to lose 15-20pounds in 2 month right before school starts again. I'm 14,130-135 pounds and 5'6.

I have some stomach fat, it's not flat, and I'm able to grab stomach fat, also, I want to make my leg,arm thinner. Also my breast has some fat in it too, I want it to be flat. What excerise should I do? I am currently running 3-6miles a day, 20minute of basketball, and sometime jumping rope and lifting weights. Please don't say I'm at a healthy weight, I know I am, but I want to get rid of the stomach fat and breast fat, and lose a few pounds to fit in some skinny jeans. Thanks

You cannot do anything to make your body lose weight in certain places- only build muscle. Your body decides where it loses the weight.

At that calorie level, once you start consuming normally (and you will, big time, eventually) you'll put the weight lost back on. Worst of all, the weight will mostly be fat, not muscle, so you'll look even worse- like, jiggly.

The only way to safely lose weight is to exercise more than you eat, and eat healthier things. You need a certain amount of calories for your organs to function, so don't try to be lazy and eat below that level because you'll end up with a ton of health problems.

This is basic information you can find everywhere.

EDIT- Didn't read all of your post before... if you feel flabby, you're better off eating healthy foods from all the food groups. A LOT more than what you're cosuming now, since you're doing great exercise. You want your body to be strong, right? Trust me, you'll come back to this eventually if you carry on the way you are now.

cjkl is right

600-800 calories is dangerously low for a 14 year old 5'6. Whats happening now is that your body is eating it's muscles for energy and storing fat the moment you eat something. Plus I don't think you'll be getting enough calcium and other minerals to be able to sustain the constant osteo-blasts from the exercises your doing. Osteo-blasts is a process of bone growth, though it's not as simple as that XD.

The healthy way to do it...in my opinion, is eat healthily and 200-300 calories below your needs. And a great fat-loss tool is HIIT (High Intensity Interal Training) which is basically an interval between high intensity exercise to low intensity and you can do it in cycling, running, etc. there is plenty of info about it on the internet.

One exercise in particular that I will forever love is the "chest dip", it works alot of muscle groups especially the chest.

I wish you the best of luck =]

Original Post by mr_omario:

I wish you the best of luck =]

Wishing someone the best of luck with their eating disorder is ridiculous. I know you said what they are doing now is unhealthy - but they don't need to lose any more weight, no matter which way they go about it.

fx2dude, if you want to lose energy, muscle and your hair while gaining brittle bones and arthritis, this is the way to go about it.

CC recommends a short sedentary female teenager eat no less than 1500 calories. As an active male teen, I would imagine you need 2500-3000 calories to maintain. Please reconsider your very self-destructive behaviour.

As a 14 Y/O male you should be consuming about 2500 calories per day.  You body is still growing.  You will not see any health problems for a while, but they will catch up with you.

If you want to eat healthy and get into a fitness routine, PM Malkor in the fitness forums and I am sure that he can suggest a workout out program for you.

merylwhite anyone with fat-weight can lose it...and what he has an abundant of IS fat-weight and he wants to lose it. I simply pointed to him the direction to go about and lose that fat-weight.

I know skinny jeans are kind of a skater style right now, but honestly, you're a dude. Most women (and I say women, not girls) are really not attracted to men who wear the same jeans they do, and potentially look better in them then they do. Eat your reccommended amount (2000-2500 cals) of GOOD food - not the fast food junk - and lift weights, run, whatever. You're not meant to have a woman's body. Most women are meant to have the women's body perpetuated in the media. You're young, and you've already fallen into the trap so many of us older CCers are trying to fight our way out of - stop trying to make your body into something it's not mean to be!

You have already made several threads, and you have already been told that you need to eat more, as well as warned by our moderators.  Remember this?

We here on CC will not give you advice on how to further starve yourself.  Teens need a bare minimum of 1500 calories.  Males and active teens need even more than that.  All you are doing here is killing your metabolism and hurting yourself.  You need to be willing to help yourself.  This means eating the minimum required calories.  If not, there is no other possible advice that we can give you that you have not already been given in previous threads.

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I just looked at some of your other posts, and what you need to keep in mind it that you're only 14.  You're body is still growing, and soon you'll have a more adult-like body.  Chances are you'll grow some, and you'll probably also lose some of your fat.  This  can only happen if you eat enough to allow your body to grow, and you need to eat at least 1000 more calories daily for that to happen.  You exercise a lot, and that's great.  You can't make your body do something it doesn't want to though.  Just stay active, and let yourself body grow into itself.  Sometimes its hard to be patient, but as long as you start eating enough I can guarantee you that your body will be changing soon.

Original Post by mr_omario:

merylwhite anyone with fat-weight can lose it...and what he has an abundant of IS fat-weight and he wants to lose it. I simply pointed to him the direction to go about and lose that fat-weight.

@mr_omario -- I don't think at 5'6" and 130-135 pounds this person necessarily has an "abundant of IS fat-weight".  They might have a few pounds of fat to lose, but it's also possible that the non-fat part of their body is the majority of their weight. 

I am overweight, but at 5'3" and 160 pounds my bodyfat is at 28%, giving me 114 pounds of lean body mass.  That's 114 pounds of non-fat body, so it is very possible that this person also has a lot of LBM. 

Personally, I think 5'6" and 130 or so pounds is a very healthy weight. 

plus its kind of creepy when a girl dates a guy who weighs less than her, men are supposed to weigh more than chick they naturally have more muscle

Original Post by karozel:

@mr_omario -- I don't think at 5'6" and 130-135 pounds this person necessarily has an "abundant of IS fat-weight".  They might have a few pounds of fat to lose, but it's also possible that the non-fat part of their body is the majority of their weight. 

Ok I may have made an error in what I said about him having loads of body-fat but then again I never insinuated that most of his weight comes from fat. Though he says he does, and I don't see how at this point how he doesn't have lots of fat-weight because his body is in starvation mode for god knows how long and you expect his body not to store fat?

FYI: I know when measuring someone's weight one has to consider water-weight, bone-weight, muscle-weight, fat-weight, etc.

Yes, he may have some fat on his body.  But at this point if he's only eating a 600-800 calories per day, I think it's likely much more important to try and straighten out his thinking on diet/food/fuel and such without saying something that would make him think that he has an "abundance" of fat to lost. 

It just seems like your remarks might be more likely to push him in the wrong direction rather than address some problems with his ideas about healthy diet and living. 

I'm the same height as you, and let me tell you, 110 lbs is NOT healthy. When I was that low, I had absolutely no muscle or anything. You'll end up looking sickly and pale. I agree that 130 lbs is a very healthy weight for this height, and even a bit more wouldn't hurt. All you really need to do is increase your calories and do exercises to tone your muscles. More than likely, the flab is not caused by an increased amount of fat, but a decreased amount of muscle.

Thanks everyone, but my problem still isn't answred..I'm not looking to build my muscles, I don't intend onto, the only thing I want to get rid of is  my stomach fat , and have a flat stomach. nothing else.

Ok.  Here is a very simple answer to your question.  Eat more.  Get your calories up to at least 2000  and keep them there for a while.  Give your body a couple of months to "fix" itself and get used to a normal intake.  Give your metabolism time to heal itself.

Then, after you have done that, try dropping your calories by just a few hundred and you should be able to lose weight in a slow and steady manner that is much healthier than starvation dieting.

When you starve yourself (like you are now)  the body wants to get rid of muscle before it gets rid of fat.  That's why you sometimes see "skinny" people who still look flabby.  It's because the body ate away the muscle more quickly than it ate away at the fat.  There is scientific evidence to back this up, but it's got alot of technical terms and It's kind of hard to follow.  I can certainly post it if you want.  But I'm not sure if it's worth it because we can't even get you to acknowledge that you need to be eating more.

If you won't help yourself and listen to what we have to say, there's nothing more we can do for you, dude.

Original Post by fx2dude:

Thanks everyone, but my problem still isn't answred..I'm not looking to build my muscles, I don't intend onto, the only thing I want to get rid of is  my stomach fat , and have a flat stomach. nothing else.

 I wasn't suggesting that you build large muscles or anything. Like I said above, what you think is 'flab' might just be an un-toned belly. And as peaches said, starving will only make it worse. I can attest to that from personal experience..

Alright everyone, thanks for all the help, I've going to try for 1000 or higher calories a day, but the thing is that, I get full at around 800 calories for the whole day.

 I suggest toning up! I do push ups sit ups and even jumping jacks. No matter how much I weigh I'm never flabby because I do these exercises. Toning will not evaporate the fat, but it'll look good and move less.