Help me get rid of my gut!! (Read 1258 times)

I have been running for about 4 years now. I have lost around 40 lbs, run a half and a full marathon...Overall I feel great...The problem is my gut...While it is quite smaller than it used to be, it seems to have stopped shrinking...I have a good 3-5 lbs around the midsection I could stand to lose... Just looking for some advice on the best way to strengthen and flatten this area...Thanks!!

I've been known to say to people "I will not let you're negative energy & drama raise my cortisol levels so I have to do 100 more crunches - take your reality TV performance somewhere else please!" THEY LAUGH but I am actually not kidding!

Is this for real? I thought that was just a goofy commercial for some dumb-ass belly-busting pill. I hate to be a pin-head, but is it based on real science?

Kylie Kavanagh, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US, wondered how this “killer fat” would affect the risk of diabetes in 51 vervet monkeys. She fed one group of monkeys a diet where 8% of their daily calories came from trans-fats and another 27% came from other fats. This is comparable to people who eat a lot of fried food, says Kavanagh. A different group of monkeys was fed the same diet, but the trans-fats were substituted for mono-unsaturated fats, found in olive oil, for example. Both groups ate the same total calories, which were carefully metered to be just enough for subsistence. Path to diabetes After six years on the diet, the trans-fat-fed monkeys had gained 7.2% of their body weight, compared to just 1.8% in the unsaturated group. CT scans also revealed that the trans-fat monkeys carried 30% more abdominal fat, which is risk factor for diabetes and heart disease. “We were shocked. Despite all our enormous efforts to make sure they didn’t gain weight, they still did. And most of that weight ended up on their tummies,” says Kavanagh, who presented her findings at the American Diabetes Association meeting in Washington DC, on Monday. “This is walking them straight down the path to diabetes.” This is the first study to show such a dramatic result on abdominal fat, adds Dariush Mozaffarian at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, US. “The days of thinking about fats just as calories are over,” he says.