Did anyone actually lose belly fat without gym?

Drink black coffee and run

yes I lost belly fat with diet and consistency in cardio by doing 30 minutes in a day

intermittent fasting is the only one correct answer, + u can try carnivore diet with it. Could be really game changer for you.

Thunder Digitals said:

Diet alone won't help you achieve that. You need some walking or some sort of exercise to reduce the belly fat.

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Evelines said:

Fasting

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serenip said:

intermittent fasting

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l0cke said:

You can't just specifically reduce belly fat you can to reduce overall fat percentage in your body.

Simple rule to follow,
1. burn more, eat less (calculate calories)
2.add more protein, avoid junk

you will see a difference in a month

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qdza said:

without gym it'll take years.

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CarlosTheGaucho said:

There's no magic recipe apart from keeping your diet in check (healthy and 5x a day) and absolving say at least 3 x a week a minimum of 40 - 50 minutes of something that will start the metabolism, burn energy and fat at the same time. Burning fat is a general process so if you lose fat, you lose it everywhere.

It can be GYM, it can be calisthetics aka working out with your own weight, it can be martial arts, running - whatever fits. But it should be high intensity keeping the heart rate up throughout the process.

The only thing that I know first-hand that works is a combination of solid regular diet and solid regular physical activity.

If you want to leave out alcohol during the process, that will speed things up too.

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RMX said:

My advise will be Sugar cut and No junk add proteins regular exercise simple.

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rujasisthku said:

i think you can lose weight at home if you are not that much big fatty guy. Just be consistent with some exercise and stay away from junk, oily food and sweets.

I am also about to start my own workout at home.
Push ups 10 to 15
Squats 10 to 20
Plank 30 sec to 1 minute
mountain climbers 30 to 1 minute
jumping jacks 1 to 2 minutes

try this workout's 2-3 sets.

I started seeing a difference with my belly fat while doing these but i left doing it because of some work but now i am free and about to start again

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habeotron said:

Belly fat is notoriously stubborn because it's often linked to cortisol levels and insulin sensitivity, not just calories. I've been through this cycle a few times, and here is what actually moved the needle for me:

What worked:

• High Protein + Caloric Deficit: I stopped focusing on 'low fat' and switched to high protein (1.5g - 2g per kg of body weight). It keeps you full and prevents muscle loss while the fat drops.
• Compound Movements: Instead of doing 1000 crunches (which doesn't burn belly fat specifically), I focused on Squats, Deadlifts, and Overhead Presses. These burn way more calories and spike your metabolic rate.
• Walking (NEAT): Aiming for 10k steps daily was more effective for my belly fat than doing 3 sessions of high-intensity cardio (HIIT) which just made me exhausted and hungrier.

What didn’t work:

• Spot Reduction: Thinking that 'ab workouts' would melt the fat over the abs. It just builds the muscle underneath, but the fat stays until your overall body fat percentage drops.
• Extreme Keto: It worked for a month, but it wasn't sustainable for my energy levels when working long hours on the computer.

Are you planning to track your macros with an app, or are you just going for a 'clean eating' approach for now?

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Nomy500 said:

exercise and consistency are crucial for loosing belly fat and also avoid oily things

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NirvanaWolf said:

Remove sugar and processed food. Walk a lot, daily. Better if there are trails with incline near your place.

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cloaker4ads said:

Try fasting + eating well.

Exercise is good to build muscle.

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KoD- said:

Do basic exercise , walking or jogging and strength training.

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nuclearrap said:

2 rules work very fast
- 18/6 IF
- No sugar

But belly fat is the most stubborn part of the body. You still need some move and exercise.

I think clean eating and working out is much better than 18/6 IF.

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DojaCat said:

ye just keeping my mouth close

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splishsplash said:

I can't believe how backwards everyone has it. No wonder most people never get shredded.

There is ONE way to lean.

Calorie defecit.

Here's what confuses people:

Not everyone will put on fat or mass if they eat over maintenance.

You have to figure out your own body and what makes you fat, but as for getting lean. It's a deficit only.

The gym will do nothing for you. Nothing.

In fact, running is one of the worst things for getting lean. If you burn 500 calories running(which is hard to do if you're out of shape btw), you'll increase your appetite way beyond 500 calories.

Lifting weights is good because you'll maintain more muscle and look better as you lean out, but the gym has nothing to do with getting lean.

Go ask a professional bodybuilder and they'll laugh if you say you need the gym to get lean.

It's done at the dinner table.

The only thing that helps is walking.

If you walk 500 calories extra, you won't increase your appetite.

Eat less and walk. That's it. Most people eat far more than they think.

If you are an average guy of average height you'll need to eat 1900-2000 calories per day to lose weight. 1700-1800 is quicker. 1500-1600 is fast, but incredibly hard beyond 2 weeks.

Doing too much physical activity is just an awful way to lose weight, because it makes it harder to track your macros and for every 100 calories you burn, your body will want more like 120-130.

Seriously, go run a half marathon and see how much you eat, then try walking a half marathon and you'll barely have an appetite increase beyond an extra serving of potatoes for dinner.

Getting lean is boring. Too boring. People want fancy diets and tricks.

And this is why no one is lean.

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Greenfyghter said:

celebrities use all three
diet, excercise and Ozempic

Indian celebrities are gulping it like anything

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prasadpol said:

Drink black coffee and run

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Nomy500 said:

yes I lost belly fat with diet and consistency in cardio by doing 30 minutes in a day

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Utakata said:

intermittent fasting is the only one correct answer, + u can try carnivore diet with it. Could be really game changer for you.

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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I actually tried some of the things mentioned here before reducing sugar, avoiding junk foods, walking, and even some basic workouts.

I also understood now that there’s no magic trick to reduce only belly fat. Overall fat loss, calorie deficit, protein intake, and consistency are the main things.

But honestly, just like I forgot about this thread, I slowly forgot the diet plan and workouts too I think consistency is the real problem in my case, not the lack of methods.

Need to restart again and stick with it this time.

I reduced almost all of the belly fat with just diet and walking. I became very lean but still has some belly fat. As you lose weight, you feel more energetic, so I started doing more exercises. Initially, you should simply avoid junk food, eat healthy, eat less, and do minimal exercises for whole body. Don't target belly fat as you want to cleanse your blood vessels and improve your overall health instead of burning fat in a specific part. It takes 3-6 months to see visible results but you should continue the routine. Once you lose all fat, it'll help you become fit and stronger.

Drink more water and eat less food, do regular exercises with walking.

I lost 8 kg recent months using nothing but chaturbate and improving all parts of my life. It rewarded me with so many neurotransmitters I didn't feel hunger at all. I think this buzz lasted 3 months. It was great start of new life.

These girls I talked to made me more ordered than any coffee or business in the past.

My belly looks 3 times smaller if you're curious about this specific part.

Now my next thing is to build real life relationships. Without it, life is dull.

Passion, purpose make you lose fat. Maintaining passion and purpose help you stick to all this and not gain it all back. I could write a whole course on passion and purpose. Commercial work was mostly devoid of it, so I resign from it.

Someone wrote "calorie deficit". Yes, physically it's about calorie deficit, but mentally life is a different game than following strict rules and metrics without meaning. At least for people like me.

Being unhappy makes you careless, so you eat too many calories... it's complicated!

I lost 20 pounds by just eating less every day. No exercise. My normal metabolism needs 2000 calories per day and I eat 1500 per day. Try drinking V8 it's only 45 calories per 8 oz. and it has 2 servings of vegetables per 8 oz. It's a good way to tricking your stomach it's feeling full.

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This is a topic I love.

The problem with the whole calorie deficit way of thinking is that the human body doesn't use calories for metabolic purposes.

I'll explain.

So a calorie is a measure of heat energy released when burning food in a bomb calorimeter.

Great.

Except for the fact that the human body cannot run on heat energy.

Now when I say this on Threads I always get some guy saying "thermodynamics thoughhhhhh."

It happens pretty much every time lol.

And their point would be right...

If the human body was a CLOSED thermodynamic system.

It is not.

We regularly exchange mass in the environment.

Plus how do you even track calories when the government allows food companies to be +/-20% out from the actual amount of heat energy?

What about the thermogenic effect of food as well?

The reality is you can't.

It's just an awful thing to even attempt.

So if we can't use calories then what do we do instead?

The simple answer is the human body has extremely potent hunger signals IF not poisoned by dietary carbohydrates.

The long answer is.

We have two essential types:

Fat and protein.

Carbohydrates are not required as your body is perfectly capable of making the required glucose from gluconeogenesis.

If you do not eat carbohydrates your body will release ghrelin when you're hungry and leptin when you're full.

All this boils down to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full.

It really is that simple.

Throw in a 24-72 water fast every now and then for stem cell release and autophagy.

Carbs mess that signalling system up big time so that's why you can eat a pack of Doritos and feel hungry in 2~ hours.

Your body will over time reset to your genetic baseline of body fat%.

There is really no need to track anything.

Some body fat is needed for insulation and hormone production.

This doesn't even talk about systemic inflammation caused by constant randle cycle activation but I'm trying to keep this simple.

Btw the only exercise humans are designed for is high intensity exercise.

HIT has the added benefit of cardio as well so there is zero reason to do cardio itself for health/fitness purposes.

Long endurance stuff tends to hypertrophy the heart overtime but that's a discussion for another day.

TLDR: Fat + protein = genetic baseline of body fat %. HIT for muscle hypertrophy purposes and health. Calorie tracking is not needed.

PS: Avoid seed oils like the plague.

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You're absolutely right (No I'm not Claude, but probably I am influenced by how it responds).

However, let me push back on a couple of points (just joking, LOL. You'll laugh if you use claude code a lot)

But..

I agree with everything you've said in principle and at a theoretical level it's not calories in and out.

BUT.

From a practical, every day standpoint, most people are going to get results if they try to eat around 1800-2000 calories per day and walk 30 mins a day.

There are many downstream effects from lowering the amount of food you eat. It improves your insulin sensitivity. (As does fasting, which I think I forgot to recommend)

There is an important thing I've observed over the years.

Losing fat and not gaining fat are different things.

You can eat over maintenance and not get fat depending on what you eat.

But(Yes I love butts, I mean buts)

Losing is kind of different.

To defend myself, I said the one way to lose is a 'deficit'. I didn't necessarily say it has to be a certain calorie limit.

We can only estimate with calories, and it really depends what you eat and your particular biology.

For me, I know roughly what to eat to lean up. I do BETTER when I measure the calories rather than just wing it. Not because the calories are a magic number, but because when I measure about 1800-1900, I am in a deficit.

In general it's this:

"Go to bed feeling a little hungry every day" and you'll get lean.

It's HARD to lose fat. The body does not want to give it up. That's the problem.

It's not that hard to maintain being lean.

Again, I could sum up. Every time in my life I get fat, it's because when I go to bed I feel too full.

If I go to bed feeling just right, I don't get fat.

If I go to bed feeling a little hungry, I lose weight every week.

But for most people, I would advise them "eat less, train less, walk more" as a starter, and if they really have no clue about nutrition, then advise them that the kind of food they should be consuming is meat, eggs and fruit mostly, with a little rice and potatoes for variety, and a little wheat is fine if tolerated for variety and enjoyment, but avoid white bread.

The highest energy, best feel good, optimised brain is rib-eye steak, liver, alaskan salmon, eggs, bananas, avocado, raw milk and tangerines.

And I don't salt my food, but I like to run super high potassium. I like to tell myself I'm an ancient human(just psychology which helps, because ancient humans ran 6:1 to 10:1 potassium to sodium, but I'm convinced that if everyone tried it they would be amazed at how amazing your body performs on high potassium. I literally eat ZERO salt. My only sodium is natural in fruit/meat. If my food is salted when I eat out, no problem.

I love tangerines. Each one is 80mg of potassium, so you eat like 6 of them and you've got almost half a gram of it before you even tuck into your milk and bananas.

splishsplash said:

And I don't salt my food, but I like to run super high potassium. I like to tell myself I'm an ancient human(just psychology which helps, because ancient humans ran 6:1 to 10:1 potassium to sodium, but I'm convinced that if everyone tried it they would be amazed at how amazing your body performs on high potassium. I literally eat ZERO salt. My only sodium is natural in fruit/meat. If my food is salted when I eat out, no problem.

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Interesting. Sodium is shite long term.
Not as bad as pure fat food, but it sucks.
I threw it away and replaced with quinoa.
I mean, not literally replaced as alternative... but it contains potassium.

I'm looking for better life these days, so these small changes matter.

I lost around 15 Kg over period of 95 days. I just changed my Eating habits and early eating. Avoid overeating and Junks in that particular period. Of course do some regular normal workouts.

Fasting

If you dont like to go to the gym, then I would like to recommend a very good diet that I think not only make you lose weight, but also make you very healthy. Its when you eat majority of your calories from carbohydrates, like starches (sweet potato, corn, rice, potato) and sweet fruits. And you limit any fats, even healthy one, like oils, nuts,seeds avokado and animal products, like no more than 100 grams a day, so your diet would be low fat, low protein and high carb. This is really working well for many people.

l0cke said:

You can't just specifically reduce belly fat you can to reduce overall fat percentage in your body.

Simple rule to follow,
1. burn more, eat less (calculate calories)
2.add more protein, avoid junk

you will see a difference in a month

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Did this pretty much! Some walking behind a toddler and lost 5 kg in 6 weeks.

Try doing a keto diet. Also, do a plank along with other cardio exercises suggested above. Gradually increase your plank duration. Nothing burns belly fat better than planks.

Intermittent fasting is the key, and walking.

Diet alone can reduce belly fat but you will first see result in everywhere else, as belly fat is usually the last place to go (depends on your genetics tbh). High protein diet + workout could give you faster results but still, I see way too many jacked dudes with some belly fat so don't lose hope if its slow

Yep, grueling full day mountain bike rides. Like 7-8 hours in the saddle with tons and tons of climbing. A lot more fun than the gym and all the elevation you gain, you have to lose as well which is the cherry on top

yes, i have lost a good amount of weight after my surgery, which i never lost such weight even after dieting. Movement got a lot of easier, felt like running while walking. But i regained almost all the lost weight in very short time.

Cut 80% of sugar/carbs (bread, pasta, pies, chips...), especially anything liquid with calories (if it's not soup, you will usually end up taking more sugar than by eating actual sugar with a big spoon)

Walk for an hour a day. Do it for 10 days; you will be able to see the change in the mirror. Extend forever.

Problem solved.

The gym is only a BIG plus.