belly

Question
Hi
Now that I am getting older(late 40's) I am starting to look like my Father and uncles,who all had a very pronounced abdomen.
Unlike them,I exercise and eat healthy.
My abdomen is actually quite firm but it sticks way out.
Is this a genetic trait that I cant change,or could it be related to a hormone imbalance or food allergy that I share but can do something about?

Answer
simply put, body fat can only get there one way--more calories in than expended--however, the predisposition to holding weight in your stomach has a lot to do w/ genetics--so you may not get it exactly as you wish, but you can always improve.

Define "eat healthy", sometimes we really kid ourselves if we aren't reading labels, being really picky at restaurants and eating a LOT of raw fresh fruits and veggies!

What kind of exercise and how often and what duration?

In short without knowing all the answers; for a man a lean diet of 2000 calories with a good work out regime; 1 hour of cardio 4 times a week, weight lifting a few times a week and having an active lifestyle--you could be playing on a softball team, doing a pick up ice hockey game, basketball down at the local Y, riding bikes.

Life is what you make of it and you make yours a sedentary life, you are not going to have the body of an athlete. If you make your life an athletic one there won't be room for "lazy" in your life on your body!

In my book, The Vice Busting Diet, I state that the 3 biggest diet vices affecting the Obesity Pandemic are Soft Drinks, Fast Food and Television.

Do you have one of those vices?

Makes sense doesn't it!?

Carpe Diet!
Julia
www.JuliaHavey.com

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