Fat pocket above quad
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Sumiblue
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This is just me being weirded out by something that is probably totally normal. Just within the last few days I've noticed a little bump on my leg; the front at the top of my quad muscle. It looks subtle in the photo but it's quite noticeable in person. It looks like I have a wavy leg! I guess it's fat and I'm leaning out below that pocket as I keep building my quads? It's the same in both legs. I haven't been so good about sticking to a cut so I have been eating around maintenance. I have gained muscle for sure.
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Anyone see that little divot between knee & hip, closer to hip? Anyone else experience this? I'm hoping it's a sign of getting leaner & not fluffier. Seems like if it were the latter the fat would be spread out more evenly.0
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idhavetime for a closer examination since i'm late for work right now, but fwiw my body fat is like the polar ice-caps. it melts at a fairly uniform rate, but the result after a while is i have these left-behind patches where the ice has been thicker all along.
and yeah, most of what's left is in corralled into the space between waist and knees, sigh.0 -
I have that too, and I have just always assumed it was normal. It has gotten more noticeable to me as I have lost weight so I am assuming it isn't a sign of being fluffier.0
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I can barely see what you are talking about.0
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Nevertheless less, it is there and I can feel that is distinct from the muscle. I guess I look neurotic, haha! It's just that I have lost weight before, lost 10 lbs between January and April, and this wasn't like this. This is new.0
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Is it fat? Could it be the top of your sartorius popping out and developing?0
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I think it's fat and not muscle. You can tell from my photo that I carry my excess weight in my lower body. In order for me to get lean and muscular on the bottom I'd probably lose my chest completely first0
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Let the chest go. It can always be reconstructed with ingenious undergarments. You look great btw0
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^^^haha! My chest is kind gone already-breastfeeding will do that. & thanks! Still a work in progress.0
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^^^haha! My chest is kind gone already-breastfeeding will do that. & thanks! Still a work in progress.
i'll tell ya. i never see a selfie from you without going 'those are the shoulders i want'.
i have fluff in places i didn't used to as well. although to be honest, i don't really remember where my fluff was when i was not-really-that-fluffy-at-all. the very top of the inner thigh - like, between 9 and 12 on a clock - it is one of the new where-the-fat-hangs-out spots.
did it always used to hang out right there? i'm not totally sure but tbh i don't think so. but now there's really a lot more muscle in that area than there used to be, so instead of just sinking below the sightline i could easily imagine it always having been there and now it's just getting its profile raised by what's underneath it.
hear you about the boobs. truly.0 -
also, if 'neurotic' means you go around clutching handfuls of your own excess self to see how they're coming along, i'll be joining you in the basket-case bin.
i'm sure that there's room ;-)0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »also, if 'neurotic' means you go around clutching handfuls of your own excess self to see how they're coming along, i'll be joining you in the basket-case bin.
i'm sure that there's room ;-)
Yes that ^ Lol!! Is there room for me too? Lol!!0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »also, if 'neurotic' means you go around clutching handfuls of your own excess self to see how they're coming along, i'll be joining you in the basket-case bin.
i'm sure that there's room ;-)
*raises hand*
Constantly grabbing my belly fat to see if it feels smaller today...
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Thanks for the nice compliment on my shoulders, @canadianlbs . I want the rest of me to catch up to them! I think we all are hard on ourselves and our problem areas. I'm certainly not surprised to find that I have a roll here or there. This leg thing is not like that, though. It really does seem to be that my legs are getting leaner from the bottom up and that is a bulge of fat that is left. In other words, that I'm not gaining fat but losing it. I think if I were gaining fat it would be spread more evenly over my legs and not a distinct pocket that feels separate from the muscle. Time will tell. I will keep better measurements from here on out. It sounds like @Llamapants86 has this too.0
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This leg thing is not like that, though. It really does seem to be that my legs are getting leaner from the bottom up and that is a bulge of fat that is left.
this is just so familiar. i can actually SEE the low-tide mark about halfway up my own thighs, and yeah. it is sort of disorienting how your body changes its actual shape.
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^^^"low tide mark"0
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It may actually be muscle. LOL.0
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What is with the knee fat? I didn't even think we had fat on or near our knees, but apparently we do--or at least I do.0
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Yes^, yes I do. So there is hope of it receding from the bottom up? Would love to see this happen!0
