Paunch. How is it formed? Can it be shrunk? (surgery, overweight, exercises)

[Origin of Symmetry]

Belly tends to stretch if you overeat and drink too much water, soda or other beverages. If you pursue this habit you finally get a paunch. If you stop this habit and get back to normal amount of food and water does your stomach tend to shrink? I assume no. The amount of fat in the belly area does get smaller but the stretched stomach unfortunately doesn't shrinks as it is impossible.

It seems the only way to get rid of the already stretched stomach that looks like a paunch is a surgical one.

Is it possible that there is no much fat in the belly area but it still looks like a paunch just because the stomach has been irreversibly stretched by overeating and overdrinking practice? Or maybe paunch always means a man has some excess fat in the belly area and there can be no paunch without superfluous fat?

[Hedgehog_Mom]

There are exercises you can do to tighten up your abdominal muscles. That would usually take care of the problem, unless you were massively overweight, in which case you would probably have to have surgery to remove excess skin.

[Origin of Symmetry]

Originally Posted by Hedgehog_Mom

There are exercises you can do to tighten up your abdominal muscles. That would usually take care of the problem, unless you were massively overweight, in which case you would probably have to have surgery to remove excess skin.

Do you think it is only skin? I guess the stomach itself inside your body becomes bigger. You sure can train your abs but the belly will protrude the moment you relax them.

[Hedgehog_Mom]

Do you know where your stomach is located? Stomach Diagram Human Body, human anatomy, anatomy pictures, anatomy digestive system Your stomach protruding might be a little bit of the issue but mostly a paunch is caused by fat that your body is storing in the abdomen.

[Origin of Symmetry]

Thank you. The key question I'd like to be answered is if a stomach (not fat, but this (muscle?) thing inside) can grow in case of adults.

[purehuman]

Well anyone who's had a baby knows it can...and sometimes after having children even if the mother becomes thin again she's sometimes left with a paunch...I call it a pouch, like a kangaroos..a constant reminder of the life that grew inside it.