Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.
Whether you're prepping for bikini season or just want a toned, tight stomach all year-round, you'll have to adjust your lifestyle to get the physique you want. You can drop belly fat with a well-planned diet, but food can't strengthen and tighten your stomach muscles.
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Girls often gain fat in their thighs as they hit puberty. This may seem like a problem area for you, but it's actually a healthier place to store fat than in your belly. Losing weight may help your thighs thin out, but you can't target them for weight loss.
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Extra pounds in your chest and the resulting bulge around the back of your bra line can cause sore shoulders, slouching and back pain. You may also be self-conscious when the extra fat rolls show through fitted clothing.
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If your six-pack has turned into a muffin top, blame the couch, your age, the television and your diet. A sedentary lifestyle and middle age contribute to a fattened belly, but so do the foods you eat. Along with being aesthetically unappealing, belly fat presents health problems.
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Achieving a healthy weight improves your quality of life and makes you feel good about yourself. But you may notice you have less tolerance for cold environments and always reach for a cardigan or jacket -- even when others seem comfortable.
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Gaining weight to improve your football performance requires you to add muscle, not fat. A combination of strength training and consuming more calories encourages this lean mass development, but it's not easy. Filling up on extra fast food or junk food makes you gain fat, which will only slow you down out on the field.
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Weight training isn't the only way to lose belly fat, but it is an effective way. It also helps prevent you from piling on extra pounds.
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Fat loss takes time, and the best results come slowly -- 1 to 2 pounds a week. Burning off a significant amount of belly fat in 10 days is practically impossible.
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Weight loss is a numbers game. Eat fewer calories than you burn and you'll lose weight. Not everyone burns the same number of calories daily, so not everyone should eat the same number of calories to reach their weight-loss goals.
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Downing way too much food can make your tummy ache with the pressure. Rest assured that it's nearly impossible to make your stomach burst, even if It feels as if it might. Overeating stretches your stomach, but once the food passes through your digestive tract, your stomach shrinks back to its normal size.
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When you lose weight, you usually think of your hips, waist and thighs shrinking. The size of your feet may also reduce when you drop considerable pounds. Depending on how much weight you lose, you may need to invest in shoes of a new size as well as smaller clothes.
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In the United States, obesity affects 35 percent of the adult population, according to 2014 statistics reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obesity endangers people's well-being by putting them at risk for serious health conditions.
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Weight-gain products may impress with their promises of large muscles and a beefy, bodybuilding body. But these supplements are generally a waste of money; you can get all the protein and calories you need for weight gain from eating mostly whole foods.
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Your body mass index, or BMI, represents an estimation of your body fat. BMI scales weigh you, just like any other scale, and ask you to input your height. The scale then performs a calculation that computes your BMI.
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You're advised to fill your plate with fresh vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins when you're trying to lose weight, but these aren't foods you naturally enjoy. You can list the vegetables you tolerate on one hand and prefer nachos and burgers to brown rice and chicken breast.
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Whether you've lost weight due to an illness or surgery, or you just have a rapid metabolism, gaining weight requires you to consume more calories than you burn. Where that weight goes when you gain isn't entirely up to you.
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If you have a high metabolism or are recovering from illness, or if you're an older adult with little appetite, gaining weight can be as challenging as losing weight. It's best to gain weight at a moderate rate to ensure that you're not adding too much body fat and are putting on a fair amount of healthy muscle.
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Once you reach age 40, the weight-loss tactics you used in your 20s seem to stop working. You can no longer refuse dessert and fit in extra workout once a week to effortlessly drop a few extra pounds. Even if you make every effort to eat healthfully and exercise when possible, the number on your scale keeps climbing.
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Your ideal weight depends on more than just your age. Your gender and height also play a role in determining a healthy size. Measurements such as body mass index and body composition analysis that aren't specific to your age help you ensure you've got a healthy ratio of lean mass to fat, too. Even if your weight is "
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Erratic schedules, eating on the run and a lack of structured, regular exercise can undermine any 21-year-old's goals to achieve a healthy weight. Cutting calories and increasing physical activity helps you lose weight at any age.
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