Want to lose fat, and need tips

[adam11]

I ran track and did soccer in high school and was really lean, but last year in college I wasn't very active and ate junk food. I'm still skinny (6'2" , 150 lbs) , but now I have flab under my bell button, which is covering the tone of my ab muscles, and probably a little more fat through out my body.

This year I've been running a lot more, and I've been to the gym more often, but I don't know what i should be doing exactly to burn off this fat since I read a lot of things that contradict eachother. Also, I was wondering if trying to gain muscle would interfere with losing fat through the diet or workout.

Someone told me that running for long periods, which is what I do, puts your body into a catabolic state where i will lose muscle. I don't want to lose muscle though, just fat.

Also, I'm not sure exactly what kind of foods i should concentrate on eating since some sources say that complex carbohydrates (pasta, rice, bread) are necessary for losing fat, and others say that they just add more calories to burn and will turn to fat. I was always able to eat whatever i wanted and be really skinny, until this year it seems to have added some fat. Right now my diet is pretty inconsistent, but i eat eggs and waffles with syrup and usually potatoes for breakfast, then for lunch i eat breaded chicken sandwich with mayonaise, and for dinner i usually eat the same as for lunch or maybe pizza that has no meat toppings. I know that probably has a lot of fat, but I don't know what I should replace it with.

So basically, what would you suggest for a skinny young person to do to lose the fat on his belly and other places?

 

[|OCS|Virus]

hello, well the thing with fat is it doesnt matter what part of your body you work out you will always loose fat in the same manner I believe the order is arms, torso, then legs. the best way to loose fat is through arobic exersizes basicly just things that envole more than one muscle group. Like you said you were already doing running which is a good form of arobic exersize. If I were you I would use a tread mill at a gym though and try to keep up with it. Try setting it on a little above a jog for you then step up gradualy and keep going till you are going as fast as you can keep up with it then gradualy bring it back down. Another good form of fat burning exersize is an exersize bike, but put it on a low setting so you arnt pushing to hard that will only build muscle but wont burn much fat. but on a low speed it will burn more fat because you are moving faster than if you were doing that on a higher setting. well hope this helps ^_^

 

[Kalrog]

Virus is correct - you can't pick where the fat comes from, or gets added to. And where that is - at least what gets it first and loses it last - differes for everyone. That is why some women will have really wide hips but a great looking torso and sometimes it is the reverse. Same deal for men. So if you want to lose fat, you have to lose it everywhere.