Sorry to say but, you can't target your weight loss. That's not to say you can't lose your "gut". You can and making chances to your diet is an excellent way to do it.

My suggestion would be to do it in stages so that it doesn't seem so hard to do that you give up.

You could start by not eating things you can't pronounce or put into an identifiable food group. For example Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream Potato chips sound like they might be food with dairy, more dairy and vegetables but when you read the ingredient list you get a lot more than that.

http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/ruffles-cheddar-sour-cream.html
and then click the nutrition facts if you want to see it for yourself.

The nutrition label states that a 1 oz serving has 160 calories with 90 of them coming from fat. It also provides 8% of your daily sodium.

To put that into perspective if you were to have a LARGE baked potato with 1/4 cup full fat sour cream and 1/4 cup shredded full fat cheddar cheese you would have a 14 oz portion of ostensibly the same flavour profile. It would give you 562 calories 236 of which would be from fat and would also give yo 44% of your sodium.

All things being equal if we were to then up the potato chip serving to the same amount (14 oz - and seriously who eats only 11 chips at a sitting) suddenly the potato chip are coming in at 2240 calories with 1260 of them from fat and is giving you 128% of your daily sodium.

I'm not suggesting that the key to weight loss is baked potatoes loaded with sour cream and cheese just that real food is always better for you than packaged quasi-food.

Good luck with your goals.

Facing50 is right. You can't spot reduce and unfortunately the belly fat is usually the last to go.

Although "spot reducing" isn't always possible for everyone, I read this a long time ago. Sugar goes to the hips, starch goes to the waist. Cutting down on both sugar and starch usually results in weight loss and some of it will surely come off your gut. Good luck.

I love how people are beating me to the punch on the whole spot reduction speech now lol. It used to be be me givibg out the long essays on how it doesnt work...just eat healthier, a little less and get some exercise of any kind. Weights, aerobic, at gym or at home, it all helps and in time, youll lose weight from all over my man.

One thing to be aware of is that exercises that target muscles in the stomach area might (depending on reps, weight, sets, etc) cause you to bulk up in that area. If your gut is where you lose weight last, then those exercises may appear to be counter productive because you get added mass via more muscles, but are waiting for your body to get around to pulling fat from that area.

But in the long run added muscle mass is nice because muscles burn more calories than fat does!

What pepper man says is true to a degree, but unless youre in a claorie surplus you dont have to worry about packing on bulky muscle. If youre eating as though youre dieting, what you can expect with abdominal exercises is some toning up, mixed with the weight loss will help your mid section to look more defined...

the gut area below belly button for me was the the most and hardest to get 89% off.
for mrn I think that T-hormone dry on t very near boarded. I think that male will need just a dap of hormone .
I feel that I might always have a small pooch because I half to have some where to hold my intestiants.
The gut seem to be the ;very last to lose.
we can. you can. don't dive in,

Yeah that's common admiral, first place to store, last place to lose for some people. Just genetics and body type.