Quote: (04-06-2014 12:59 PM)Giovonny Wrote:
The only way to get a "gut" is to eat too much fattening food.
The only way to remove a gut is to eat less fattening food.
I suspect that Moma is eating too much after sunset.
Eat more during the day so that you can go to bed on a more empty stomach.
Eat the heavy foods earlier in the day. Night time should just be vegetable and clean meat like fish.
Cut out all the bullshit.
There are a lot of good ideas recently in this thread, and surely each of us need to find our own particular comfort level.
Surely, the big three health activities that are somewhat within our control are diet, sleep and exercise - which includes their impact on the extent to which we have a belly.
I already made a
fairly lengthy post in this thread providing a large number of my ideas regarding having a belly.
Actually, I always thought that I had a belly into my late 30s... now in my early 40s and in the last few years, my belly has pretty much subsided (maybe lost a few inches off of my gut - going from a 36 to a 33), and I attribute that to largely cutting out carbs and various processed foods and even limiting the quantity of fruit. My carbs are NOT completely eliminated - maybe call it the 80/20 rule. 80% of the time I attempt to follow various low carb dietary guidelines, and 20% eat whatever I am in the mood to eat. Surely the 20% is - not any kind of all out gorge.. but it's just a built in psychological leeway (permission) to deviate.. have a beer, pizza or ice cream or whatever is the extravagance de jure.
Actually, I have been pretty active regarding adding good fats and oils back into my diet.. butter and animal fat. Moma said that these kinds of foods make you tired, but it may be the carbs rather than the fats that are making you tired... Good fats should get you away from these various processed fats and the fats will satiate you and cause for fewer snacking inclinations... b/c if we eat carbs and sugars, then we crave more of them.
Changes to my diet in the last few years has NOT really changed quantity of food that I eat... so I do NOT buy any of these ideas that we need to restrict our diets as long as we are eating good natural and whole foods.
Anyhow, I was beginning to think I could live off of bacon and eggs forever and meats.. like a meat only diet.. a few veggies, here and there and to wrap by BLT in lettuce without using bread, and then I began reading about prebiotics -
there is a thread on that in this forum.. at least regarding recent studies pertaining to potato starch or kinds of resistance starch - which apparently helps your body to better process probiotics... and ultimately to improve gut flora.
Personally, I am NOT too much into supplements or paying a lot for food, and we should be attempting to eat natural - yet nonetheless, there may be something to this resistance starch idea to help the body with gut flora.
Finally, I do exercise regularly, but I do think that exercise is overrated regarding whether someone has a gut..... probably having a gut is more of a product of diet and sleep... rather than exercise. I consider my personal exercise to be more of a stamina thing, in case I am attacked in an alley, I can at least put up a decent fight for a few minutes... depending on how many girls jump me... I don't wanna be too much of a push over before I finally give in.