Can You Lose Weight Where You Want?
If you have excess weight only in specific parts of your body, you still must look at yourself as a whole. It's not possible to dictate that you only want weight to come off one place or another. This is called "trouble spots" is where the fat will come off last. But there is hope for losing that belly fat though.
Work Toward Building Muscle and Reducing Body Fat
Work toward building muscle and reducing body fat you will eventually tackle those trouble spots though, and develop a better physique in the process. Muscle tissue is active meaning it requires calories to be maintained. If you were stranded without a food supply, eventually your body would turn to its own muscle tissue as a source of nutrition first (muscles are protein) while saving the fat stores for last. Simply put, fat is nature's way of ensuring survival during times of famine. By building more muscle you become a more efficient energy burning machine which translates to mean you can eat more food! That is a good thing.
The More Active You Are, The More You Get to Eat!
Why some people can eat so much yet not gain weight; energy burning person simply has a greater proportion of muscle to fat. Muscle is more dense than fat. A pound of muscle is heavier than a pound of fat, but the truth is a pound is a pound. What they mean is a one pound volume of muscle is a smaller package than a one pound volume of fat, or put another way, fat is billowy and fluffy while muscle is sleek and compact.
Lady No. 1 weighs 120 pounds with 30% body fat so she has 84 pounds of lean tissue and 36 pounds of fat.
Lady No. 2 also weighing 120 pounds but at 18% body fat is carrying roughly 98 pounds of muscle and 22 pounds of fat.
Would you rather be Lady No. 1 or Lady No. 2?
Which do you think takes up more space, 22 or 36 pounds of fat?
I'd say 36 pounds of fat would be a lot bigger package than 22 pounds.
Get Fit and Belly Fat Disappears
It doesn't make sense to drive around and around in the parking lot looking for the closest space when you're on your way to run or walk on the treadmill. Why take the elevator five flights every day at work and then pay a monthly fee to do the StairMaster after work? What if we all started to notice that our world is full of exercise equipment.
Start by noticing all the opportunities for physical movement we miss in the name of convenience. Look around and see if you can spot some exercise opportunities, and then get busy and get fit.
