why you can't lose belly fat

17 Sept 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

1:13

In this short YouTube monologue, Eric Roberts explains that the body sheds fat in three distinct stages, using a snow‑removal metaphor. The first "highway" stage clears fat from the most vascular areas such as the face, the second "sidewalk" stage removes fat from peripheral zones like love handles, arms, and lower back, and the final "snowbank" stage leaves the belly fat as the last remaining store, analogous to a snowbank that persists after the rest has melted. Roberts stresses that there is no special trick to target belly fat; the key is consistent, sustained effort over time rather than quick fixes.

Chapters

You will struggle losing belly fat for the rest of your life until you understand this. Your body loses fat in 3 stages. The first stage is what I call the highway phase. When it snows, what is the first place that the snow is cleared from? The highway. So for your body, this is like— These are usually areas with the most blood flow, like your face. The fat will leave there first, and then you go into stage 2, the sidewalk phase. The snow gets cleared from the sidewalk second. And so this is usually like your love handles, your arms, your lower back fat. And then finally you hit the snowbank stage. What is the last place the snow leaves from when the plows put it into a huge pile? That snow in that snowbank will sit there forever, even when everything else is melted. That is your belly fat. It's usually always the last place to lose from, and so you don't need to do anything special to get rid of it. You just have to stay consistent and stick with it and don't quit.