Belly Fat Versus Cinnamon and Hope

[Diesel911]

Belly Fat Versus Cinnamon and Hope

Before I get started I wanted to say that far as taste goes I am not a big fan of eating stuff with Cinnamon. I have not changed what I eat or level of exercise.

If you are allergic to Cinnamon don’t go near or especially consume Cinnamon. Cinnamon causes issues with diabetic medications so if you have diabetes stay away from it. If you are taking any other medications research and find out if it will interfere with them.

Most people have likely seen ads saying or selling something that has melts off belly fat. Certainly there is a whole industry with various methods and or connections that say you can lose weight or inches.

In my own case it is not so much weight as it is I developed rather bulbous and rather solid belly due to fat in that area. I am almost 70 years old and I look what must be 3/4ths of the Seniors over 60 years old. At least appears to be that way when I go to the retirement living community where my Father has a place.

Concerning weight I found weighing yourself is does not help as you think it does as your weight fluctuates during the day and with what you are wearing. I am 6 feet 1 inch tall. This is with clothing on and my Pockets full of the normal stuff I lug around and not weight myself at any particular time I have weighed as much as 234 pounds. For my size that is not too bad but I am guessing somewhere between 6-10 pounds of that is belly fat.

When I weight myself this morning without anything accept my Sox on I weighed 218 pounds and morning weights in only sox fluctuates from 218-220. But this is after 2 months of eating Cinnamon.

The short story is I did not do a proper job recoding my weights. What I believe I have lost is 3 pounds in 2 Months. If you are going to check your weight for analytical purposes do it in the morning when you first eat up and before you eat and likely naked would be best.

Weight was not my target but the belly fat is the target. Within the 2 months subjectively more then a few People told me I lost weight in my Face. What I see is I lost fat on the side of my Belly (love handles?) and some fat off of the pectoral area.

More significantly the belly fat that was rather solid is getting flabby I have to tighten up my belt more then before and I can now button the top button on my Pants and be comfortable were as before I only did that when I was standing and in public.

I wanted to see the around my belly measurement drop. I can only subjectively say I lost one inch from the 47 inches it was. Part of the unsatisfying measurement is because of the way I measured and flabby fat or solid still has my belly at near the same diameter.

Before taking the cinnamon when I sucked my gut in there was not much reduction in the belly diameter. Now there is a lot reduction when I suck the gut in. I have learned that you should suck your gut in when taking the measurement.

So now we are down to what is working. I read about taking a teaspoon of Cinnamon a day (Ya several articles claimed it melted off body fat. But obviously it is a slower process.) and it is working for me. Note do your own research on this.

The short story on how the Cinnamon works depends on why you have unwanted fat. “Insulin resistance (IR) is a pathological condition in which cells fail to respond normally to the hormone insulin. Insulin is a hormone that allows glucose to enter cells which also reduces blood glucose (blood sugar).”

The sites promoting cimbalom say that when the blood sugar does not absurd normally into your cells it can become fat and that stuff in Cinnamon mimics Insulin and gets your cells to take in the blood sugar. The lowering of your blood sugar seems to be a well known property of Cinnamon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance

That means my guess is if your unwanted fat is from some other reason then insulin resistance Cinnamon is not going to help.

Like many things in the world something that has a good effect can have issues. Again do your own research on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnimon

There is 2 main types of Cinnamon. The most common and cheapest one has a natural chemical in it that has some toxicity that the Liver needs to take care of. That is Cassia type Cinnamon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_cassia

Cissia type Cinnamon has a lot of Coumarin. If your Liver is compromised or you eat too much Cissia Cinnamon it can reach a toxic level in your blood stream and your blood sugar drops. On the other hand Coumarin has anti-inflammatory properties. Look up and be aware of the symptoms.

This is the Cinnamon have been eating as it is cheap and I actually already had 2 bottles of it so and I bought 2 more bottles when the Cinnamon started working. I am having no side effects from taking the Cinnamon about 1 teaspoon in my Oat Meal every morning. Another way I take it is I squirt chocolate syrup into the bottom of a glass and mix the teaspoon of Cinnamon with the syrup before pouring in the milk and stirring it up.

If the Coumarin thing is an issue with you the other type of Cinnamon is an option. True Cinnamon/Ceylon Cinnamon. It has only a minuscule amount of Coumarone in it. However, the cost of it is about 4 times as much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_verum


It does not have the toxicity but Cinnamon it or not this creates another issue. Are you getting what you pay for? If you are buying ground Cinnamon how do you know what you are getting?

The True Cinnamon is supposed to have a sweet mild smell and taste less bitter but I have looked on the internet and there is no kind of field chemical test you an do on ground cinnamon to tell what you are getting.

However, there is visible difference if you buy the bark; Cinnamon sticks. The cheaper Cassia Cinnamon that has the Coumarone in it when you look at the sticks of bark the bark is a single layer about 1/16 of an inch thick although the it is going to be curled together. It has also been described as tougher and harder to grind up.

The “True Cinnamon” has thing fragile paper thickness type bark. And if you look at sticks of the bark there that is curled together you will see lots and lots of folds of the paper thin bark with in it.

I looked up on Amazon some of the sellers of ground True Cinnamon and I went to the section where people give feed back. A lot of the people that left feed back were culinary types or people taking Cinnamon for medicinal purposes that seemed to know more then myself.

So I picked one of the Brands that one of the people that left feed back recommended and I have 2 pounds of it coming. That because I am not interested in grinding my own Cinnamon.

My goal is to use up the Cheap Cinnamon in the morning and take another teaspoon of the less toxic Cinnamon later in the day.

My Wife has a good belly going also and does not like Cinnamon. I would like her to try this experiment and the True Cinnamon with the sweeter taste and smell may be more palatable to her.

If someone decides to try this for weight loss I would love to read the feedback.

The 2 pounds of Ceylon True Cinnamon arrived to day. It does not have the strong smell of the cheap Cassia Cinnamon nor the same flavor.

Attached are pics of what the 2 types of Cinnamon Sticks look like the ID is in the text on the pictures.

[barry12345]

Reducing weight or improving condition. Even though it has a huge following. From what I observe out there. That following just scratches the surface. Obesity in north America is almost endemic.


At 78 as I lose muscle mass it is not pretty. I do remember getting a little overweight once. The wife put me on a rabbit diet. I wondered at the time if it was self serving for her. It did work though.


A reality in north America is we eat even when we are not hungry out of habit. Probably not the smartest thing to do. The convention of three meals a day kind of caters to this.


I have cut back on physical work to some extent. That is a misteak. It tends to keep the body toned longer.

[Diesel911]

Originally Posted by barry12345

Reducing weight or improving condition. Even though it has a huge following. From what I observe out there. That following just scratches the surface. Obesity in north America is almost endemic.


At 78 as I lose muscle mass it is not pretty. I do remember getting a little overweight once. The wife put me on a rabbit diet. I wondered at the time if it was self serving for her. It did work though.


A reality in north America is we eat even when we are not hungry out of habit. Probably not the smartest thing to do. The convention of three meals a day kind of caters to this.


I have cut back on physical work to some extent. That is a misteak. It tends to keep the body toned longer.

Part of my point with the thread was I am loosing weight and more importantly Fat with out changing my diet or increasing my exercise.
The fact that the Cinnamon is aiding in that shows that I do have Insulin Resistance (not officially diagnosed) or it would be having the loss of fat or weigh. But, yes people are Obese for different reasons. I appear to have found one of the reasons for mine.

The general obesity issue is of course quite extensive as to the reasons for it. There is various theories on it.

I recently listened to a video Ad for some Tea concoction that is supposed to cause weight loss.

The explanation was that people are eating the same things they did 40 years ago with the same bad habits. What the Ad explanation claims is that what has changed is that we have more toxic stuff in our blood stream at a molecular level and that causes Fat accumulation.

In short the claim is that the rise in Obesity all over the world is attributed to the increasingly toxic environment we live in and increased toxic stuff in our Blood the people in the past. (The Ad said that there is actually plastic molecules in your Blood Stream along of course with other stuff that should not be there.)

It is easy to disregard the above as hype to sell a product. But, I read long ago that people who lose weight rapidly suffer discomfort from the toxins released that had been contained Fat. So maybe it is true that the production of Body Fat has something to do with taking toxins out of you Blood and isolating some of them in you Fat tissue.

I have also lost muscle mass due to inactivity in my upper body. Because I walk my legs have good muscle mass. Even at your age you can regain some muscle mass by way of exercise. However, exercise is not desirable in the face of pain evem if exercise is needed.

[barry12345]

Good points. We get a lot of food products in plastic vessels now. Plastics are not inert like glass. This has always been an issue.


I find I eat less with age as well. Genetics plays into our condition as well to some extent.


I see excess food consumption as a possible addiction as well.


There is a balance.

[Diesel911]

Originally Posted by barry12345

Good points. We get a lot of food products in plastic vessels now. Plastics are not inert like glass. This has always been an issue.


I find I eat less with age as well. Genetics plays into our condition as well to some extent.


I see excess food consumption as a possible addiction as well.


There is a balance.

I think the general US population is addicted to many things and many individuals to multiple things. Pushing the limits of freedoms and lack of self control even when it is self destructive normal here in the US. This I believe is the reasons other civilized Countries don't have the amount and intensity of the problems here in the US.

I see this because I grew up in a different period of time. People growing up with what is line now in the above paragraph don't know any better and think it is normal life.

[cmac2012]

Getting a flat tummy is a serious priority for me. I need to improve insulin sensitivity, the whole gammut. They say losing even a tiny amount amount of fat from the liver and pancreas is a big help. Exercise and intermittant fasting.

Resistant starch is a good avenue to explore. Helps with smooth and easy elimination as well. I'm eating more beans. Also I do a bedtime drink of 2 tbsp. of green plantain flour, 1 tbsp of psylium husk, little bit of oat bran and nutritional gelatin. Helps sleep as well they say.

[Diesel911]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Getting a flat tummy is a serious priority for me. I need to improve insulin sensitivity, the whole gammut. They say losing even a tiny amount amount of fat from the liver and pancreas is a big help. Exercise and intermittant fasting.

Resistant starch is a good avenue to explore. Helps with smooth and easy elimination as well. I'm eating more beans. Also I do a bedtime drink of 2 tbsp. of green plantain flour, 1 tbsp of psylium husk, little bit of oat bran and nutritional gelatin. Helps sleep as well they say.

I don't have elimination problems.

I have not lost any more discernible amount of weight but the belly fat continues to become slightly softer as time passes and my belly is not as bulbous in shape as it was.

I suspect there is going to be a limit to what can be accomplished with Cinnamon alone which I am now taking twice a day.

[Diesel911]

I started sometime in August. The belly fat has gone from very firm to flabby. And it started from the sides then the inside and worked outwards.

The belly profile has reduced in some areas but still if measured without sucking in my Gut I have only lost one inch.

However, I can suck in a good deal more belly then before and I am needing to tighten my Belt more to keep my Pants from slipping down. And that with me not going on my Walks for almost one Month.

So it is working but extremely slowly.

I got 2 pounds of Ceylon Cinnamon which has nearly none of the toxic chemical in it so I have been alternating that with the other Cinnamon till I am out of the cheapie Cinnamon.

[tyl604]

Guys, take a look at the Whole 30 plan. It puts the others to shame. And it works. You will not be sorry; it can change your life.

[Diesel911]

Originally Posted by tyl604

Guys, take a look at the Whole 30 plan. It puts the others to shame. And it works. You will not be sorry; it can change your life.

The whole point if this is that it helping without the only change is one Teaspoon of Cinnamon in the Oat Meal I eat nearly every morning and occasionally another teaspoon of Cinnamon in the evening in something I would normally eat or drink. And it is targeting the Fat.

I now weigh 218 pounds wearing only socks and I am 6 feet tall.

I am doing this because it is working very slowly but doing it is very passive.

[tyl604]

Keep us up to date. Sounds like one of those "too good to be true" scenarios and I am interested.

[Diesel911]

Originally Posted by tyl604

Keep us up to date. Sounds like one of those "too good to be true" scenarios and I am interested.

The too good to be true is that that some articles claim that drinking Cinnamon tea before bed time "melts off body fat."
I had 3 bottles of Cinnamon for a long time so I figured I would try and at least I would use up the Cinnamon. I really did not believe it would work at all.

A 2 pound weight loss since Aug is not melting off body fat. If it had not been that the density of the belly fat has decreases as it has I would not have attributed the 2 pound loss to the Cinnamon.

[tyl604]

Sounds right. I have lost 29 pounds since June via the Whole 30 - but it certainly takes discipline. My stomach is pretty much gone which is what my better half wanted. Was 202 and now 173. Bp down too.

[INSIDIOUS]

Originally Posted by tyl604

Sounds right. I have lost 29 pounds since June via the Whole 30 - but it certainly takes discipline. My stomach is pretty much gone which is what my better half wanted. Was 202 and now 173. Bp down too.

congrats on dat !!!

[Diesel911]

Looks like I only for sure lost 5 pounds. While reduced slightly the pot belly is still there.