Group: New Members Greet & Meet - Introduce yourself

New Members Greet & Meet - Introduce yourself
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 1539, Messages: 27038

Officially introduce yourself to the community by sharing your goals, obstacles or accomplishments. Don't be shy.. we're all here for the same reason. The more support we share the easier it will be to reach our goals!

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Big beer belly

tonyhyman
tonyhyman
Posts: 1
Joined: 2009/03/04
United States
2009/03/04, 04:24 PM
Is it possible to ever lose that big beer belly? I'm a 38 yr old man, that has had enough of the fat belly jokes. The rest of my body is fine...could use some toning up, but is not bad compared to my belly.All my weight goes to that region.Second, can a man tone his chest up, and lose the man breast by doing bench press?
jasongtye
jasongtye
Posts: 4
Joined: 2009/03/10
United States
2009/03/18, 01:50 PM
Yes and yes. Just remember, Rome wasn't built in a day. I'm sure it took years for your belly to get that way, just like mine did. But I'm hitting the gym hard and starting to see results.
jonshez
jonshez
Posts: 273
Joined: 2007/01/14
United Kingdom
2009/03/23, 09:15 AM
Hi Tony,

I hope you're still around and just lurking and haven't dropped off as your post count indicates!

Yes - drink less beer. Seriously. A pint of beer has about 200 calories for zero nutritional benefit.

No - You can't bench-press your way out of moobs. You'll certainly add muscle under the fat (and muscle helps in losing weight - a whole other story) but you can't lose fat from targetted areas. I wish it were otherwise! Losing the moobs will come with general all over fat reduction unless you suffer from a medical condition like gynomasticaea (sp?).

Jon