FAT

[xxloloxx]

I have a fat belly anyone help how to get rid of this???????/

[cazzz1975]

healthy diet and exercise

[anneasquith]

liposuction ?

[classylady60]

I usually answer this with leave off bread for a couple of weeks to see if that helps as I know it has helped a lot of people I've told. Replace with scones, soda bread or crackers if you can't do without this type of carbs but leaving off bread can really help.

[Sqad]

anneasquith is correct.

[woofgang]

classylady are you saying that its yeast which causes fat??????????

[emmie]

I have to do the same, but with the help of a nutritionist, doc says cholesterol is a bit too high, though i do think that all the advice these days can be confusing about what is good for you or not. I would go the sensible way, cut down on fatty foods, alcohol, butter, switch to low fat spread, that sort of thing.

[Sqad]

If you are over 35years old and have a fat belly.....you will always have a fat belly.
If you are over 35 years old and have fat legs....... you will always have fat legs.
If you are over 35years old and have a fat ar'...bottom...you will always have a fat bottom.

Why do you think that there are so many diets..low carb, high carb, low protein, high protein, Ducan .....???

Because diets don't work.

[AB Editor]

Visit here: http://www.theanswerb...ght-Loss-and-Dieting/ and see what the regulars reckon - they're all very helpful.

[ummmm]

Absolute load of rubbish Sqad.

[Old_Geezer]

Diets do work but it is keeping it off once you get there that's a pain. If you feel you have been eating strangely in order to lose weight/size then once off that regime it is all too easy to return to the same eating pattern than got you fat to start with. This is particularly the case if life becomes more stressful that usual and you drop watching what you eat for 'more important' issues.

another problem is that as you get older your body apparently considers it hilarious to ensure any weight you loose will first come off the areas you least want to lose weight from. Apparently in older age the 'two knitting needles through a ball of wool' look is in vogue.

Best you can do is get used to a healthy diet and adopt it as your usual, and then you won't need to do all the diet type calculations for ever and a day.

As for how to get rid of a fat belly, have you thought of donating it to Oxfam ?

[RATTER15]

I agree with sqad to a degree!

I think diets are dangerous, you need to be thinking about a life changing diet, by that I mean look realistically at the way you eat and exercise, im no expert but whatever changes you make for the better need to stay with you for life, not just until you have lost the desired amount of weight. Ive seen so many women get so excited to lose a bit of weight, trouble is every time they put it back on it includes a few more pounds each time.

Go on one Practical diet that you can live with a diet and an exercise regime for the rest of your life.

[Sqad]

Ratter has got it in one.

Reducing the amount that you would eat normally is NOT dieting.

A lifestyle change as Ratter has pointed out is the ONLY answer.

[mccfluff]

i'm over 35 and my fat belly is disappearing, mind you i keep forgetting to eat which is not recommended

[Euphemia]

Fast walking, including LOTS of steps (as in stairs).

[LoftyLottie]

I am slimmer now that I was in my 50's. I was told that at 50 women will be at their highest weight.

I agree with Sqad about diets as such. Healthy eating and exercise is good and that is not dieting. However, in my opinion you can firm up your fatter parts but they will always remain your fatter parts.

I would love a bigger bum and hips and a smaller waist - suggestions welcome!! ;o)

[Old_Geezer]

OK it may be just semantics, but how can reducing the amount you eat not be dieting? Anything you eat is your diet, and a conscious effort to control what is in your diet, reduction or arguably increase, is surely "dieting", to my understanding.

[Sqad]

Old_G........good point. Dieting is when when reduces the amount of ONE kind of food e.g carbohydrates or perhaps fats, in relation to the whole nutritional needs thus reducing the balance of the carbohydrates, fats and proteins that are needed.

Reducing the amount of EACH, but maintaining the balance is, in my opinion NOT dieting.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, when I was last almost as fat as I am now, and went to WW, they didn't seem keen on the faddy 'leave out one thing' stuff. Unless a desire to reduce saturated fat counted. ;-)

[Sqad]

O_G...OK.

[modeller]

I have a fat friend who claims to eat very little and when he told his GP that dieting didn't work the GP smiled and said " There were no fat people in Belsen.".