what is the best exercise you can do at home to reduce abs? Im really having a problem reducing my ab. Some people say that eating too much carbo can definitely make your ab bigger. Is this true? You see I eat a lot of rice.. more than 2 cups per meal..

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2 cups of rice is a lot of calories... close to 1400

If that's only a portion of your meal - It's not the carbs that's the problem but the calories

But if you read around the forum- you'll see quickly that spot reducing isn't possible.

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You cannot spot reduce weight and loose it off any one part. Fat is fat and you can only loose fat one way. Your body chooses where to loose it from - if you only have fat on your tummy then thats the place you will loose it

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You have to lose weight all over.......it's not just going to disappear from your mid-section.

I do a lot of crunches on the Swiss ball and leg raises on the chin dip/leg raise machine. My tummy is much flatter but, I've also lost almost 50 pounds.

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Only if you're measuring it raw. Two cups of cooked rice is going to be more like 400.

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Tip 1 - Switch to brown rice. Lower glycemic index.
You can't spot reduce. Fat burning and exercise doesn't work that way. Exercise will tone muscles in a given area. If insufficient muscle tone is causing your gut to protrude, crunches and other ab exercises will help. To reduce the layer of fat covering the area, you'll need to reduce the overall level of bodyfat through diet and exercise. You'll want to stimulate the body to metabolize fat at the maximum rate throughout the day, so even when you're not working out, you are still burning as many calories as possible. Even a small amount of resistance training can accomplish this, at least in the beginning. If you don't exercise at all now, you could work with weights for 15 minutes a day, 4 days a week, and provide some pretty dramatic changes when combined with some basic diet improvements. Key dietary changes would be such as completely eliminating refined sugar and white flour, and adding fresh vegetables.

Good luck

wow that looks like it was copy/pasted off a website

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