How To Lose My Gut While Minimizing Muscle Loss? Diet/exercise Tips?
I am able to lose my gut, but always at the cost of upper body muscle mass. The last time I dropped from 85kg to 75 kg (85 is at the top end of my ‘healthy’ range, 70 is the bottom), but my girlfriend didn’t like it, saying I looked too thin (I guess she prefers the gut 
. I lost these 10kg simply by cutting out all snacks, and it took me 6 months. Is there any particular exercise I should do to minimize muscle loss, and/or should I try and get more protein in my diet? I was thinking of aiming for a 2000 calorie a day diet, with as much protein as possible (I guess egg whites and tuna is gonna be a staple), and get a mix of heavy weights and cardio exercise.
Whey protein is a great aid in this process. Also include some glutamine in your daily regimen to help build and repair muscles after a workout.
I don’t understand what you’re doing that would cause you to lose upper body mass unless you had fat under your muscles instead of on top of which can happen.
For cardio I recommend 45-1hr on an elliptical and you can opt to not use your arms and still reap the benefits.
For a man the abs and upper body are the first to take shape so perhaps the issue for you is that you are so out of proportion you are noticing it more.
Do plank exercises for as long as you can hold yourself up, tuck in your glutes think plank not mountain. This is a very effective way to reduce your gut.
Also crunches, lay on your back, bend your knees and cross your legs at the ankles lift them about a foot off the floor and keeping your head straight and shoulders back arms crossed over your chest or behind your head (don’t pull your neck but rest your fingertips against the sides of your head) lift up your chest keeping your abs contracted and do halfway crunches about 3 sets of 30, until you feel fatigue in your muscles. Remember the last ones, the ones that you really have to push yourself to do are the ones that count most.
Diet for sure. Be careful with cardio. Jogging has a tendency to break down upper body muscles from the constant pounding. I would do sprints if I were you. You will burn a ton of calories and probably add muscle mass in the process.
take glutamine your body will burn it instead of your own muscle when your trying to lose weight or tone muscle. Its cheap, and safe its an amino acid. and is in the food you eat just in smaller amounts.
Ya if you keep lifting while you are losing weight then you should use any mass. I wrestle and lost 5kg the week before the season and I didn’t hurt for mass.
i wouldn’t worry about muscle loss just train hard with both weights, pushups, etc and even harder on cardio ie. running and eat well… worry about power not how big your muscles look.
Try coffee.
sit ups, and not too much beer