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is it doable? your opinion needed!!

ailinh Posts: 16 Joined: 2006/08/04	2006/08/04, 07:57 PM hi everyone, i am thin but have fat in my stomach (not so much but there is). My plan is to tighten my tummy in 2 weeks as I will be invited to a pool party. so now I am working out EVERY DAY (jogging 30 min, crunches, pilates - 30 min). do you think I can get a tight tummy in 2 weeks? is it doable? if you have done something similar to your plan, pls share your experience with me too. thks for your feedback!
slorbets Posts: 205 Joined: 2006/04/07	2006/08/04, 09:14 PM how is your diet? Your workout plan sounds good, however you have to have a clean diet. You sound like you are aleady in decent shape, so with a good diet and exercise, you should see improvements!
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/08/04, 10:04 PM Losing fat is as much about diet, moreso in fact than energy expenditure. Energy expenditure no matter how much you do is limited by how much you can do. It does one thing, helps with your calorie deficit. But, if you do not change your diet, you will see no results as far as body composition, just be in better shape. All about calories for weight loss. Can you get a flat stomach in 2 weeks, seriously doubt it without proper diet. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
ailinh Posts: 16 Joined: 2006/08/04	2006/08/08, 05:43 PM thanks for your opinion. My diet is very low fat. I am asian, I eat rice very day, meat/vegetable. very little fat in the way i cook. I actually have less calorie intake than suggested (if my calculation was correct :)) so is 2 week to have lean ab doable? you know anyone done this? I really want to go to this pool party....
msmogreen Posts: 717 Joined: 2006/04/22	2006/08/08, 09:58 PM I hope you won't let less than perfect abs keep you from going to a pool party! Unless you're saying you won't be invited unless you have lean abs (don't think you meant that).
ailinh Posts: 16 Joined: 2006/08/04	2006/08/08, 10:14 PM when i stand up, my ab looks perfectly lean. but i am worried when i sit down, you can see a bit of fat wrinkle, especially it feels soft not hard if s.o. happens to touch my tummy. the ppl at the party all have stomach as hard as steel.
msmogreen Posts: 717 Joined: 2006/04/22	2006/08/08, 10:28 PM I don't know what to tell you. I've never had flat abs (not even in childhood), and I know all about feeling like the only one by the pool without them. You can see by my pics I'm still fighting this and I'm not going to win any time soon. I've been through the ab program here twice now and dieted very conscientiously since April. You don't sound that far from your goal, so may get some visible results, if not everything you are hoping for in two weeks. If you are really that self conscious about a little wrinkle when you sit...do a lot of standing and wrap a towel around your midriff when you sit? Life is too short to stress over a small imperfection to near perfect abs!
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/08/09, 02:50 PM Low fat does not mean correct diet. Usually as mentioned, lower bodyfat is the last to go. Dieting is a weird thing, if you are doing your diet correctly, as you say you are, it still does not mean a linear weight loss of any kind. You may go 3-4 weeks with no loss at all, then a whoosh, and you will lose 3 lbs. So, noone can tell you cause noone really knows what your body will do. Depends on how long you have been doing what you say you are doing, etc. The one thing I can tell you, if your diet is adequate as you say, and you are expending energy like you say, you cannot help but lose weight. If it will happen in 2 weeks???only your body knows. ============ Quoting from ailinh: thanks for your opinion. My diet is very low fat. I am asian, I eat rice very day, meat/vegetable. very little fat in the way i cook. I actually have less calorie intake than suggested (if my calculation was correct :)) so is 2 week to have lean ab doable? you know anyone done this? I really want to go to this pool party.... ============= -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
ailinh Posts: 16 Joined: 2006/08/04	2006/08/09, 05:52 PM @swarm, that wrinkle is fat. I measure in my fingers the skin on my knee and compare with the skin around my tummy, the tummy skin is a lot thicker, so there must be fat buried in there. Since I started this thread, I've working out like crazy. My stomach is getting so soft. Is that the fat melted off? is it a good sign?
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/08/09, 05:59 PM I don't think you can compare the skin on your knee,that has bone under it,with skin on your belly that has organs under it..as afar as "the fat melted off"..uh..you got me there..interested in what the experts think of this theory!
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/08/09, 06:38 PM It really is an interesting phenomenom with diet. Actually "soft" has been reported many times before a "whoosh" type fat loss I was speaking of in my earlier post. I still swear it has something to do with the water in the fat cells. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
ailinh Posts: 16 Joined: 2006/08/04	2006/08/09, 06:46 PM ok, then how do you get rid of the water in the fat cells if it is really water in there?
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/08/09, 07:48 PM You don't, it is the last bastion of the fat cell holding on before it lets go. Actually, Lyle McDonald had this very thing to say about it, again an unexplained phenomenom... Fat often gets squishy (suggesting a change in what's in there) prior to a drop in skinfolds/ improvement in appearance. I looked for research on the topic for a decade to no success. I made up my own plausible mechanism having to do with glycerol levels in the fat cell (glycerol is hydrophilic); if fatty acids were being lost at a greater proportion than glycerol, this mght explain how water is attracted into the fat cell. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!