need help losing the "gut"

[jimmybo32]

So starting Jan 1st we had a biggest loser contest at work. I won by losing 35 lbs. I am 5'6 and started the contest at 205. I won the contest that ended a week ago and I amnow 175 but I still have a bit of a gut around the lower abdominals. I have a stocky build so 175 is where i would like to be but I would really like to see those abs start comming in.

During the contest I would do about 30 mins or cardio and the steam room and sauna 5 days a week and my diet was as follows...

Bfast- light and fit yougur or egg whites with celery on the celery
Lunch- grilled chicken salad with lowfat/cal salad spritzer
Dinner- Turkey swich mainly on low carb wheat bread or various other healty meals.

Im still sticking with the diet but also doing a circut routine with alot of stomach and cardio at the gym. I am obviously alot thinner than when i started but my question is after losing all that weight...How do I lose the gut and get those abs to start showing?

 

[Jodi]

Damn, I eat three times more than that a day. I don't think I could live on such a small amount of food.

Anyway, you need to increase your food. Eating 6 small meals a day. Also, you need more protein, healthy carbs and healthy fats.

I would start by reading the stickies at the top of the D&N forum titled: Guide to Cutting etc.......

 

[BigDyl]

So starting Jan 1st we had a biggest loser contest at work. I won by losing 35 lbs. I am 5'6 and started the contest at 205. I won the contest that ended a week ago and I amnow 175 but I still have a bit of a gut around the lower abdominals. I have a stocky build so 175 is where i would like to be but I would really like to see those abs start comming in.

During the contest I would do about 30 mins or cardio and the steam room and sauna 5 days a week and my diet was as follows...

Bfast- light and fit yougur or egg whites with celery on the celery
Lunch- grilled chicken salad with lowfat/cal salad spritzer
Dinner- Turkey swich mainly on low carb wheat bread or various other healty meals.

Im still sticking with the diet but also doing a circut routine with alot of stomach and cardio at the gym. I am obviously alot thinner than when i started but my question is after losing all that weight...How do I lose the gut and get those abs to start showing?

With that kind of diet you probably lost 50/50 fat and muscle. So you lost about 17.5 lb's of fat at the most.


What's celery on the celery?

 

[P-funk]

biggest problem with the biggest loser contests......the focus on losing body weight and not body fat (improving composition). Congratulations! Your prize is a smaller fatter version of yourself with an even worse metabolism!

 

[P-funk]

anyway, like Jodi said.....try and start to increase your calories (slowly) and get a good exercise program together. The best thing you can do is start to add some muscle.

 

[kinkery]

Diet(6 meals aday min(with balenced protein/carbs/ and healthy fats in each meal).)
Training(fullbody workouts 3-4x's aweek)
Cardio(3-4x's aweek)