Best way to target and lose stomach weight? Generally suggestions?

[PiscesEyes]

I'm currently dancing on the normal to overweight line on the BMI. I'd like to loose 15-20 lbs.

I use to do a standing up workout probably 15 minutes a day with weights. I did that for a couple months back in the spring but didn't see or feel much result.

Then i switched to a 5 minute floor work out that are suppose to target your abs. Still wasn't feeling or seeing a difference.

Yesterday i tried a new 5 minute buzzfeed workout. That was advertise as an hour at the gym. And i am soo soore today. Which i guess is suppose to be good but... im worried because i feel it in my thighs. Not an area im concerned with. My legs are probably my best feature.

So does anyone have a quick and affective workout routine suggestion. Or other things they want to share on the topic?

Food wise im having trouble cutting calories but eat pretty healthy. And i walk at least 30 minutes a day if not more.

[ShortCircuit]

When you were doing ab workouts, they were working - they just weren't doing what you wanted them to do.

Ab workouts build muscle in your abs, but they do not burn fat. What you did was develop abs UNDER a layer of fat.

The only way you can burn fat anywhere on your body is by simply running. If all you want to do is burn fat, all you have to do is run. Also, make sure to count your calories, so that you know how much you have to run.

You need 1500 to survive, but you need to end the day with 1000 to burn fat. So if you eat 1500, you will need to burn 500. If you eat 1600, you need to burn 600, etc.

You can't target your belly though. By running, you will burn fat on all areas of your body, your stomach included.

[cavmanier]

A workout routine really isn't usually effective at losing weight. I think people tend to eat the extra 400 calories the person expended after the hour of cardio. Lowering calories works. The most effective way in my opinion is to eat less calorie dense foods. Very few people will do that unless they want a lifestyle change.

[COCOCHANEL]

popcorn?

[cavmanier]

@COCOCHANEL Maybe popcorn, but I think food with fiber and water would work better.

[COCOCHANEL]

banana + nonfat plain yogurt smoothies !

[cavmanier]

@COCOCHANEL Yeah that's pretty good!

[COCOCHANEL]

i've been drinking it every morning for energy !

[cavmanier]

@COCOCHANEL Sounds like an easy meal : ) It reminds me of https://ifoodreal.com/banana-chia-pudding/

[COCOCHANEL]

cool (*'ω'*)

[Anonymous]

You can't spot target fat. It just doesn't work that way.
You can lose weight but you dont get to choose where it comes from. Your body makes that choice for you.
You should be doing between 150-300 of moderate or intense physical activity per week. If you do a 5min workout and then sit down all day its pointless.

[PiscesEyes]

I've heard some say you can target and some say you can't.

150-300 what? Minutes?

5i will try to do 5-15 minutes of an intense work out because thats all i have time for. But im on on my feet most the day every day.

[Opinion Owner]

Yea sorry that was minutes.
Im studying exercise physiology at uni and from what I can gather its impossible to spot target fat.

[Xfitchick]

You don't loose stomach weight, you loose fat everywhere at the same time. But to burn fat, you need long period low intensity cardio like running, biking, swimming, dancing, ... 15 min wil not burn fat. It will only tone up muscle.

[Barrabus_the_Free]

I don't think you can target specific areas of fat.

Keto diet + weight lifting + the right supplement stack = results

You'll have to do some research, but I can tell you to look at things like octopamine, sinephrine, and yohimbine.

[Anonymous]

You can target muscle decelopment. You basically don't target fat loss. And you're not at a body fat level where anything but the basically applies.

Calorie deficit. That's it.

[Kiran04]

Run.