How do I lose belly fat?

[DonFerrari]

JWeinCom said:

DonFerrari said:

Because your body needs fat more than it need muscle, first because fat is used to produce a lot of hormones and second because fat is the last thing your body wants to use since it is the last reserve to keep you alive (besides cushioning your inners and keep your heat).

So for you to have a good loss of fat you need to exercise to keep muscle (basically you need to force your body to keep the muscle) and accept a steady but slow loss, 2 weeks of starvation won't do that.

Also muscle burn calories while fat doesn't need calories to keep itself, so body burn muscle so it gains energy from muscle plus will help you need less energy. Besides other mechanism to reduce your metabolism when you reduce your intake (thus why a good program will have you slowly but progressively cutting calories and adding exercise so your body doesn't have a bid impact and adapt fast).

But... if the fat is the last reserve to keep you alive, isn't that the time, when you're not eating food, that it's there for?  It just doesn't make sense to me.  Maybe I just need to study it a bit more.

If we put fat as last reserve, then it means you have at least one before it, muscle. So on this drastic change you would probably burn more muscle than fat. You can look that several people that do drastic diet + cardio they look sick and with a lot of skin flabbiness. Because they lost a lot of muscle together.

Let's say the person had 200Lb and 6" with a BF of 30% (60lb of fat). He done a drastic diet and a lot of cardio and lost 50Lb, but his BF only dropped to 20% (30lb of fat). So that would mean from 50Lb lost he would have lost also 20lb of muscle. Instead if he have done it with more care or less extreme he would have lost let's say 35Lb (same 30Lb of fat but only 5lb of muscle) that would make his BF 18% so he would look skinner, healthier even losing 15lb less than the previous case.

Take my case. I'm 5'10" and weighted about 187lb about 25% BF (50Lb of fat) in 6 months I was able to reduce to 154Lb (33lb loss) about 10% BF (15Lb of fat), so I burned 35Lb of fat even though my scale would show I lost 33Lb, that because I managed to gain some muscle mass due to doing it very slowly.