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      09-09-2020, 06:49 AM   #2542
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Originally Posted by GrussGott View Post
Some people (small %) are genetically predisposed to visceral fat and there's a blood test a doc can run to see (treatment is low dose lithium!)

However it's mostly seen in people with metabolic disorders from poor lifestyle (lots of high glycemic foods like soda, rice, etc) - the reason is because it's your liver that does everything; it more/less controls all your fat storage, lipids, etc.

Foods like rice, bread, sugar, oatmeal! etc trigger blood sugar spikes: if you've just done a huge *full body* workout that's ok because all that energy replenishes the energy stores in your muscles and liver ... but if you haven't, all those fast digesting carbs go right to your liver which has to get rid of them fast because of the backlog - so it does the most efficient thing: creates visceral fat right next to the liver.


Low BF dudes can be susceptible though and can get high visceral fat because they get used to eating high GI foods with post-workout shakes and don't see a problem because they have low pinchable fat; only it's all behind their abs. Best way to find out is an MRI or Dexascan.

The easiest way to get rid of visceral fat - and keep it off - is fasted workouts & keto or at least eliminating any blood sugar spiking foods / drinks - and, ideally, anything with fructose or alcohol because those go directly to your liver for storage (i.e., the infamous solid beer belly is visceral fat).

It's like anything - if you just did a full body workout (even just burpees for 20 min) you can tolerate more high gi foods ... if you didn't workout today and haven't done much full body work lately and it's nighttime, a high GI meal probably isn't the best idea.
Blah, sounds like I am doing everything wrong and am going to die from having too much visceral fat. I workout from 5:15-6:45am each morning eat very little from 7am to 5pm. Just a protein shake (200calories) and small lunch (500-600 calories). The majority of my calories are consumed between 5pm and 8pm. If I were to guess, I'd say an average of 1200-1400 calories during that span, and a lot of times these are carb rich foods although I try to minimalism that to an extent. Also drink an average amount over the weekends, never during the week days. Maybe somewhere around 10-15 drinks throughout the weekend. Now side note, each day I am fairly active. My garmin always has me around 3000 calories burned each day, 12000-15000 steps (think I hit 24000 over the weekend one day). So that is probably helping me to an extent, but still a lot of what you mentioned I do haha. Gotta look into checking that out.

Side note, leg day this morning whooped my ass. Vacation starts Saturday, so haven't eaten much the last few days. Hoping to be under 180 by then, we will see!
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