I just love answering these diet tips questions. Here’s another:
Question: okay im a 20year old female. i weigh 118lbs and im 5 feet tall. now im not fat, most people say i fall in the normal thin category. but for some reason i have this little lower tum pouch. I do cardio (about 30 min on eliptical, 3 times a week), i eat pretty healthy to normal and on some weekends i eat out and don’t look at calories to much. now lately i’ve been steping up my work out, i do about 20 min of core workouts (crunches, planks, side hip dip planks, etc) to try to get rid of the lower pouch. now i’ve noticed results and i can see my abs startiing to form. but i don’t want abs i just want a flat stomach. i still have that little pouch in my lower stomach. i dont want a ab structure stomach and from the side stilll look thick, if you see me face foward my stomach looks flat but when i turn side ways it looks thick, mainly my lower stomach. how do i make it go away!
Answer: The lower pooch area is all a body fat thing…that means it doesn’t matter how much you weigh, but what your composition is. This means you need to completely step-up your workouts in intensity and do more than 3 times a week (I’m DISABLED and I workout more than you do…that should tell you something) and don’t eat "normal" but instead eat healthy all the time.
Flat abs don’t just HAPPEN. You really need to work, work, work.
Check out some female body builder magazines, not Shape magazine, and read the workouts of champions. That should get you started in the right direction.
Comment by Babs897 — April 15, 2010 @ 10:51 am