Quote: Originally Posted by Kendro Does eating have anything to do with it though? I mean granted I am eating very healthy so the fact that I dropped 14 pounds already shows I'm definitely burning more calories than I am taking in. As for the gut that protrudes, it is more like love handles so it is actual fat that I need to get rid of.

Eating has EVERYTHING to do with it and it really takes a very long time to sculpt a body unless you're able to do it as a fulltime job. Not only that, but it's not something that is easily maintained either.

I don't like using the calorie in/calorie out theory because it's a little too simplistic as it doesn't really say anything about the muscle to body fat ratio and focuses too much on weight. Unless you're doing some serious calorie cutting down to under 1200 a day, and you shouldn't, I would focus on other metrics.

Like I said though, without knowing what you look like, what you're eating, and what your goals are, it's hard to give you a better direction than eating a much more restricted diet. I wouldn't worry too much about weight because it's not a good number to go off of.