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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6231799" data-attributes="member: 19675">I didn't say getting a 6-pack was impossible, just unrealistic, given that I still had a paunch at 7% body fat, a good diet, and an active lifestyle.Medical doctors (plural) advised me of what it would take.It is 100% wrong.I did want to be rid of my paunch.  As stated, MDs advised me I had 2 choices: a pro athlete level diet & exercise regimen or surgery.Given that I was already @20 years old, adopting a pro athlete lifestyle would not have left me time to do anything else.  That would have meant I would need to find employment that needed that kind of fitness...which is pretty much being a pro athlete.  But by that age, I was already well behind the curve of training that it would take to succeed as a pro athlete, even in the sports I participated in.  Ditto the networking required to get an opportunity.  IOW, my odds of supporting myself had I opted for the 6-pack abs via lifestyle change as opposed to surgery were, essentially, nil.Therefore, my original statement stands: achieving a 6 pack at that time was unreasonable.</blockquote>