Re: Pooches: What causes them?
Yup. Totally genetics. My sister can (last I checked, anyway) develop crazy abs by diet OR exercise. As a member of the Belly Pooch Sisterhood, I will never have a six pack belly unless I have surgery or do something drastically unhealthy. No matter how much exercise I do, I have never been able to get below the 125-130 range without having an "average" diet (as in, I don't really care too much about my diet but I don't eat fast food, candy, junk all the time) and never below 115 without a super clean one. Even at 100lbs on a super clean diet and doing crazy amounts of exercise, I can have a flat belly but zero muscle definition. Thankfully, as I've gotten older, I've learned to love my pooch when I'm under 115. I personally kinda think that the "flat but soft" thing looks WAY better on myself.
Re: Pooches: What causes them?
Have you ever had a colon cleanse? Alot of people have compacted "material" in their intestines and colon which causes pooches. It sounds gross, sorry, but it's true. I've tried Colonix in the past, and it really helped detox and cleanse my system. Flattened my tummy more too. :)
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Re: Pooches: What causes them?
For me personally, I always had a pooch until I quit eating gluten a year ago. I mean I was always super skinny to the point people though I was anorexic, but always had that pooch... turns out I have food allergies (gluten and dairy) and since I stopped gluten, the pooch is gone except for if I accidentally get slipped some at a restaurant, or sometimes if I eat too much dairy. Also had the added benefit of clearing up my severe cystic acne (which accutane did NOT fix). SO.... might be worth a try. Like someone else said, some people consider it a "fad" but you can tell them to go fuck themselves; if it makes you feel better, it makes you feel better :D
Re: Pooches: What causes them?
I've been trying to gain a lot of muscle the past few months, and I have but I have also gained fat and a large pooch. I too had a small pooch when I weighed 88lbs, it was always there. It didn't bother me, most women have them I think. But not now. Now it is I think I am 2" larger around the pooch area. I have built a lot of muscle but it is so so hard to eat clean. The expense of it is obscene, it is so expensive to eat right, and going to the grocery store every other day for fresh fruit and veg is really not what I want to do. So I think this growing pooch will be around for awhile.
What does everyone think about waist training?
Re: Pooches: What causes them?
Waist training with a corset? I think that would make a pooch even more defined because the pressure concentrated on the waist would spill out underneath- you end up B shaped.
Re: Pooches: What causes them?
I've never really had a pooch, but lately, because of stress I lost 5 lbs in less than a month (on a short, petite frame). I gain and lose it in my waist/stomach first. So, now I have a bit of loose skin on my stomach. I've been training like crazy: ab/core work, contortion stretching, pole, some weights, minimal cardio for 4 pro-pole performances I had in the last 10 days. This may have contributed to my weight loss as well as stress. You can see my ab muscles but it's just a little bit of skin that I didn't have before on my lower tummy.
Also, my diet is pretty clean. I posted this in another thread, but I've just started doing whey protein shakes to gain a bit of weight back, while doing core work.
So Tempest and others with the 'pooch'; maybe it's a matter of putting on a couple of lbs instead of taking them off? (Just a theory).
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^^Whenever I lose 5-10lbs I get pronounced saddlebags. It takes weight loss of more than 10 lbs to get rid of them again. It sounds counterintuitive but maybe you're onto something.
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I had a session with a trainer last week and spoke with another friend who just got certified. The more experienced one said to try to do about two protein shakes a day, but keep up intense core work or that extra weight will turn to excess body fat instead of a healthy weight gain.
I'm going to try it and see what happens...
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My question is, where are people getting this idea that it's hard/expensive to eat well? Eating a primarily veggie diet is cheaper than a more omnivorous diet, and even a home-cooked omnivorous diet is typically cheaper than eating fast food. Is it the packaged "health food" that people are talking about? Because that is exorbitant and NOT that healthy. Is it this idea that everything HAS to be organic? Cause that's really not the case.
One of my favorite (and cheapest!) healthy snacks is a bowl of spinach with a can of tuna. Literally the most time consuming part of it is mixing the mayo, lemon, salt and pepper into the tuna before mixing it into the spinach.
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the organic stuff does get really expensive, and while i agree that everything doesn't have to be organic, stuff like bread, peanut butter, beef, dairy, and many kinds of fruit. i also like shopping at local farms that treat their animals well that i trust and feel good about patronizing , and that can get expensive as well..but its so worth it!! you are what you eat, you get back what you put into your body. best investment you can make, if its my health then i will lay down the money.
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It's genetics mixed with portion control, I don't work out or eat "clean" . I have no pooch, and I have the vertical lines at 36 yrs old still. I eat till I'm not hungry anymore , not full just satisfied. I don't eat when I'm not hungry, I don't eat for fun, it's super simple.