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WanderingxInxThexDark
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Posted: 22 July 2009 04:52 am |
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| Ok so i'm 5'2" and about 106. I've been cutting my calories to no more than 1,500 a day and that's rare it usually falls below 1,000 for like 2 months and i still have belly fat! What can i do to get rid of that? Thanks!
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Nir
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Posted: 22 July 2009 01:47 pm |
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At a BMI of 19.4 I somehow doubt you still have much belly fat. I guess you could be 'skinny fat' this happens to people who drastically cut their calories they lose muscle so they weigh less, which I think is something to watch out for because you mentioned sometimes eating at 1000 - your unadjuted RMR is calculated at 1229 so please don't eat any less than that.
You're currently at 106lb if you got down to 101lb you would be at the normal/underweight boundary so you don't have that much to lose.
Focus #1 should be posture. Suck in your abdominals (the tranverse abdominus - the horizontal muscle fibres going from left to right) you should do this when you're doing sit-ups, when you're sitting and standing and just in general in life - it is good posture, it protects your lower back. Eventually it will be automatic.
Focus #2 don't eat less than 1229 calories a day
Focus #3 work on core strength - either target abdominals directly by doing things like a hover/plank (hold for up to 2 minutes) and crunches (bring ribs to hips, focus on abs, don't worry about sitting all the way up just raise shoulders off floor) or if you're more advanced do compound exercises with weights (deadlifts squats pull-ups etc) which work other muscles but also give your abs a good workout when done correctly.
Focus #4 be realistic, maybe you have a skewed view of yourself, at your BMI you should recognise you are slim compared to most people, if you don't feel this way consider the possibility it is not a physical problem, look up body dismorphia. Use an objective measure like calipers to assess body fat?
Hope something above is of use!
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